Saturday, February 1, 2020

Braving Beauty (with a pen)



Malcolm Guite expresses perfectly in the video and poem above what many of us feel...

Sometimes the poet feels inept to walk where former poets stepped
To paint with meager ink and pen the beauty of life’s loves again
For how, when masters of the art have stunned the bottom of the heart
Can I be brave enough to try to pen the prose of earth and sky
But even as I contemplate the reasons I should deviate
From trampled paths of profound speech I cannot quell the urge to reach
Toward what begs to be retold to we not here in days of old
Where perhaps one with fledgling wings will feel the joy a poem brings
And fear will hear hope whisper ‘try’ as trust propels her to the sky
Where all of this would never be without the bliss of poetry
To cheer the way not bound to sod that ultimately leads to God

© Janet Martin

3 comments:

  1. Oh my, he really caught that longing and that despair we can feel.

    It's true, it's not enough.
    Paint, write, sing, sculpt, crochet.
    Do the thing that presses against your heart
    Yearns to share what you see and feel and hear.
    We have not heard 'your' song and until we do
    The song of the universe is not done,
    So, no, it's not yet enough.

    My imperfect leap to share...
    Brenda xox

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    1. Beautiful...and yes, exactly!! well-'leaped'! God put in each of us our own personal unique love-language to share for His glory. Your words are a special encouragement to all of us. thank-you Brenda!

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