Comments on: Invitation to Poetry: Honoring the Gift of Earth (and a Special Prize Drawing!) http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/ Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:13:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-94158 Christine Sun, 03 May 2009 14:56:54 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-94158 June Rose, both the first line of your poem -- "From hopscotch rock / to tombstone," and the last -- "fireflies in a field / where boulders grow" hold the tension of our life so luminously! Thank you for this beautiful offering. Thank you to all of my wonderful poet-readers. Such grace and beauty abounds. June Rose, both the first line of your poem — “From hopscotch rock / to tombstone,” and the last — “fireflies in a field / where boulders grow” hold the tension of our life so luminously! Thank you for this beautiful offering.

Thank you to all of my wonderful poet-readers. Such grace and beauty abounds.

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Christine, thank you for this poetry feast and congratulations on your 3 year anniversary. Here’s to the next 3!

]]> By: Richard Wells http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93883 Richard Wells Sat, 02 May 2009 15:35:35 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93883 Laure, I can't figure out how to comment on your blog. I think you've done a lovely thing with your personification of God as a tender, and loving artist and parent. It's a way of viewing the Creator that I've never been able to hold on to. Maybe I should give up newspapers. And the line: "the immodesty of the sacred," is simply fabulous. Laure, I can’t figure out how to comment on your blog. I think you’ve done a lovely thing with your personification of God as a tender, and loving artist and parent. It’s a way of viewing the Creator that I’ve never been able to hold on to. Maybe I should give up newspapers. And the line: “the immodesty of the sacred,” is simply fabulous.

]]> By: SingingOwl http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93657 SingingOwl Fri, 01 May 2009 19:18:21 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93657 Here is mine. Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child...I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me! Moses, to God Someone asked me, once "May I call God Mother?" Peoples of the ancient times Knew truth that we do not, sometimes. Who is "Mother Nature" if not God? God is timeless God "conceives" and "carries" and holds to a breast, God the Father God the Mother Creator of Life. God's eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made...Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! The Apostle Paul, to the Romans Such knowledge is too much for me A daughter of The Ancient and The New Here is mine.

Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child…I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me!
Moses, to God

Someone asked me, once
“May I call God Mother?”
Peoples of the ancient times
Knew truth that we do not, sometimes.
Who is “Mother Nature” if not God?

God is timeless
God “conceives” and “carries” and holds to a breast,
God the Father
God the Mother
Creator of Life.

God’s eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made…Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!

The Apostle Paul, to the Romans

Such knowledge is too much for me
A daughter of The Ancient
and The New

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]]> By: June Rose http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93616 June Rose Fri, 01 May 2009 15:11:41 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93616 Thought poems are medicinal! Humility ....From hopscotch rock to tombstone, we are but a breath of quickening Love- fireflies in a field where boulders grow. Thought poems are medicinal!

Humility

….From hopscotch rock
to tombstone,

we are but a breath
of quickening Love-
fireflies in a field
where boulders grow.

]]> By: stacy wills http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93477 stacy wills Fri, 01 May 2009 02:44:42 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93477 what a lovely party this is...a stir...a nod of recognition...a little flutter of the heart, as each guest arrives. what a lovely party this is…a stir…a nod of recognition…a little flutter of the heart, as each guest arrives.

]]> By: Christine http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93466 Christine Fri, 01 May 2009 01:26:57 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93466 kigen, stunning questions that go right to the heart of things. I love the way you combined today's blog photo here. Laure, I am relishing your whole poem, but that first line is so luscious, such an invitation to savor. I want to bathe in that honeycomb light. Welcome Grady, thank you for your beautiful offering. I love the cascade of movement here in your words. More comments left at blogs if you have them. Still a couple more days so keep adding these wondrous, beautiful words! kigen, stunning questions that go right to the heart of things. I love the way you combined today’s blog photo here.

Laure, I am relishing your whole poem, but that first line is so luscious, such an invitation to savor. I want to bathe in that honeycomb light.

Welcome Grady, thank you for your beautiful offering. I love the cascade of movement here in your words.

More comments left at blogs if you have them.

Still a couple more days so keep adding these wondrous, beautiful words!

]]> By: Laure http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93448 Laure Fri, 01 May 2009 00:12:42 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93448 grady... this is gorgeous ... on so many levels. thank you. grady…

this is gorgeous … on so many levels.

thank you.

]]> By: Grady Patterson http://abbeyofthearts.com/blog/2009/04/27/invitation-to-poetry-honoring-the-gift-of-earth-and-a-special-prize-drawing/comment-page-1/#comment-93447 Grady Patterson Fri, 01 May 2009 00:08:20 +0000 http://abbeyofthearts.com/?p=2326#comment-93447 Sunlight is shining Liquid be flowing Basalt be standing Heaven is glowing To all with beginning a purpose is given To all of creation a mission of love To all Sons of Adam an incomplete frenzy To Sons of the Father a glorious gift Flying, the birds Growing, the grass Swimming, the fish Giving, the star Sunlight is shining
Liquid be flowing
Basalt be standing
Heaven is glowing

To all with beginning
a purpose is given
To all of creation
a mission of love
To all Sons of Adam
an incomplete frenzy
To Sons of the Father
a glorious gift

Flying, the birds
Growing, the grass
Swimming, the fish
Giving, the star

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