psalm
I give you the wings of an angel
and make you to soar to great heights
unlike icarus
you are free to touch the sun
and I drop the currents of the air
send you to plummet into the cresting waves
and the depths of the sea
it is I who put the air into your lungs
and I will take it out again
you breathe as I will it
as though My hand were around your neck
to crush and release you
as only I desire it
You are My child
and My touch is on you
in the rain
which falls on your brow
as a seal to bind you
to My heart
I will give you
and I will take you away again
I water the garden
but you must work the earth
Mairi Graham-Shaw
© 2013
Image links to its source on Wiki Commons
The Garden of Earthly Delights, inner left wing (Paradise) - Hieronymus Bosch
(between 1480 and 1505)
public domain
A miscellany like Grandma’s attic in Taunton, MA or Mission Street's Thrift Town in San Francisco or a Council, ID yard sale in cloudy mid April or a celestial roadmap no one folded—you take your pick.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
"Gently Strumming"
Gently Strumming
She holds the ukulele
like a mother nursing her child.
She bends her pretty face
and sings to it.
It coos back.
I watch and listen:
soft voice,
gentle strums,
halting,
feeling out the chords.
What's next? she looks up to ask
when nothing she tries works.
Try G, I say.
I don't really know what's next,
but G is clean, G is clear,
G moves sweetly higher,
almost fretlessly,
like her.
Carmen Leone
© 2000-the present
Image links to its source at Wiki Commons:
A Kohala Seminary student poses with her ukulele in this 1912 photo. (1912)
Public domain
She holds the ukulele
like a mother nursing her child.
She bends her pretty face
and sings to it.
It coos back.
I watch and listen:
soft voice,
gentle strums,
halting,
feeling out the chords.
What's next? she looks up to ask
when nothing she tries works.
Try G, I say.
I don't really know what's next,
but G is clean, G is clear,
G moves sweetly higher,
almost fretlessly,
like her.
Carmen Leone
© 2000-the present
Image links to its source at Wiki Commons:
A Kohala Seminary student poses with her ukulele in this 1912 photo. (1912)
Public domain
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