Monday, November 15, 2004

Primary Wonder, the base

As indicated in the heading, my blog is based on the following poem by Denise Levertov,

Days pass when I forget the mystery,
Problems insoluble and problems offering
their own ignored solutions
jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber
along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing
their colored clothes; cap and bells.

And then
once more the quiet mystery
is present to me, the throng's clamor
recedes: the mystery
that there is anything, anything at all,
let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything,
rather than void: and that, O Lord,
Creator, Hallowed One, You still
hour by hour sustain it.

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May you too be enriched and comforted by this poem.

2 comments:

Jessica said...

I am! I am!

Abba said...

Wow. I had no idea you dug poetry. I love getting to know my friends better through their blogs.