Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?---W. B. Yeat
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?---W. B. Yeat
pair, the man, the day before a day of thanks, a given, a day set aside by executive
decision, a day, 11-26, a dark day (like today) but a place restored instead to love, nature
unutterable presence throughout my creations, disasters, myself
being with the mess, creating the dish, hovering over it hovering over me like a shining---
day, throughout the dark meat of an old year; the right shade & the right moment in what
lead by histories came back to root again a natural music capable enough
in the ragged bone and jagged edge in the shop, the man, a lovely man remembered and
an uncommon holiday lit again, without fear, a deeper story embering the darkest part of
my ancient year, a story dancing, round as fire, under the stars
I am thankful today for many things---today set aside for remembering what forms a
more perfect union; a day of thanks & giving, not a Thanksgiving day; a day the man
a lovely man, remembering, brought to the moment in the shop this shade to me
---Stephanie Pope from The Blue Melon Poetry Series
Stephanie Pope's poem, "Aglow in Oz," was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in the Literary House Review 2008, 2nd annual edition. Congratulations! Check out Stephanie's website here or via the link right, under "My Community." And why not support a poet and exercise the joyful, imaginative, metaphor-loving, muscle of a loved one (use it or lose it) by giving the gift of a book of poetry this year.
decision, a day, 11-26, a dark day (like today) but a place restored instead to love, nature
unutterable presence throughout my creations, disasters, myself
being with the mess, creating the dish, hovering over it hovering over me like a shining---
day, throughout the dark meat of an old year; the right shade & the right moment in what
lead by histories came back to root again a natural music capable enough
in the ragged bone and jagged edge in the shop, the man, a lovely man remembered and
an uncommon holiday lit again, without fear, a deeper story embering the darkest part of
my ancient year, a story dancing, round as fire, under the stars
I am thankful today for many things---today set aside for remembering what forms a
more perfect union; a day of thanks & giving, not a Thanksgiving day; a day the man
a lovely man, remembering, brought to the moment in the shop this shade to me
---Stephanie Pope from The Blue Melon Poetry Series
Stephanie Pope's poem, "Aglow in Oz," was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in the Literary House Review 2008, 2nd annual edition. Congratulations! Check out Stephanie's website here or via the link right, under "My Community." And why not support a poet and exercise the joyful, imaginative, metaphor-loving, muscle of a loved one (use it or lose it) by giving the gift of a book of poetry this year.
“It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it is no longer effective....Our challenge is to create...a new sense of what it means to be human.” ---Thomas Berry
