Meditate with Poetry
Within
each of us there is the ability to feel in images, to see what is beyond sight,
to touch reality that can hardly be captured in mere words. Yet, it is often
through words that we communicate those images, those sights, that reality.
Poetry, unlike conversation for the sake of conveying information, uses words
like art. Words become the paints that depict the images and reality onto the
white paper canvas. Like prayer, poetry digs deep into the fibers of our psyche and soul and
out of those depths draws the mystery and magic of human life and emotions.
Reading and writing
poetry takes us into that place of deep feeling that leads to prayer. There in
the vastness of our own selves we give voice to the soul’s longings in words
that almost seem too deep to utter. It’s not rhyme or meter or sophisticated
language that creates poetry or prayer. It is giving voice to simple words, simple
truths from within the uncharted layers of our being. Poetry leads to prayer.
Prayer leads to poetry. It is a dance of spiritual moves and each partner relies
on the other to complete the steps that make up this beautiful ballet.
AM I TO LOSE YOU?
by Louisa Sarah Bevington
DIRECTLY
by R.T. Smith
HONEY
by Tina Barr
NOAH'S NIGHTMARE
by Brad Russell
OPEN YOUR EYES
by Richard Guy Miller
RECOGNITION
by Luci Shaw
SONNET (ON HIS BLINDNESS)
by John Milton
