I’m delighted to share that 3 of my poems are now live at https://formidablewoman.org/fws-random-beauty-ii-p-ii/! They are the third set of poems on that page: “I Walk By An Old Woman Picking Sunflowers From Her Garden”; “Trolling”; “Contemplation”. Many thanks to d. ellis phelps for accepting all of them!
Tag: holy
Nothing
So very pleased to have this little poem included in Cloudbank 18, a journal of contemporary writing – with thanks to editor Michael Malan!
The Offering
Hymns whistled from a stand of trees,
light that falls in waves across the face
of morning, a gleeful wind that turns
away all thought:
you have only the skywide space
of a single breath to rise, unspoken for.
Any day offering itself to you like this,
would you refuse?
The day you can hold in your arms as yours
is the one that will love you back utterly
through the succulent and the unripe hours,
the one that deposes the future, crowning instead
this moment, the day you know yourself
as the praise of birds, as fully here—and enough—
as four letter words singing
good holy love, amen.
This poem was first published in “Nostalgia” in 2001 and then again in North Shore Magazine in 2004. It’s a good reminder for me on some mornings.
Lynne Burnett 