Reading Poems in the New Year

» Sunbear - Understanding poetry

Have read this material by you before. I do think you do an excellent job in your course--one of the best looks at poetry that I have come across.

Hope you had a happy holiday season. Looking forward to continuing to read your enlightening articles (as enlightening as an essay can be (to paraphrase some words your used onece).

I have read some of your online poetry also. I especially liked the one about envy. Hope to read some more of your work.

Best wishes,
Tom

-- posted by Sunbear

» Linda Sue Grimes - Re: Understanding poetry

Hi Tom,
Glad you found this essay useful. Happy New Year! All the best in the new year. Here's a poem expressing that wish:

New Year for the Poet

I pray that your poems
Bring you closer to your faith,
That they sing new songs
Equal to your voice.

I wish you mornings
With the sun slanting across your page
At an angle that lights
The dark corners of your thoughts.

I pray that breaking bread
At your table
You look across at smiles
That warm the ink in your veins.

I wish you the kind of evening
That saints pass
Dissolving in calmness,
Communing with the Divine Poet.

I pray that night locks out busy worries
And secures you in dreamless peace
And Heavenly Father rocks you
In the cradle of Divine Mother's love.

-- posted by Linda Sue Grimes

» Sunbear - Re: Re: Understanding poetry

What wonderful, moving poem! I found myself speechless after reading it. From the standpoint of middle age, I find it especially poignant with its spiritual emphasis.

I love the way the poem bridges the worlds of art and spirituality. In the end separation is an illusion; eventually we find the Divine peeking out from all the corners of our lives, not just the sunbeams.

"All things that rise must converge" (cannot remember the citation). (Believe I read that in a Flannery O'Connor novel--will try to find the author later.

Thank you so much for sharing that wonderful poem with me; it deserves a wider audience also.

Best wishes,
Tom

-- posted by Sunbear

» Linda Sue Grimes - Re: Re: Re: Understanding poetry

Hi Tom,

Thank you for your wonderful response to my poem. So glad you appreciated it.

-- posted by Linda Sue Grimes