April is national poetry month and I would like to start
with some poems by members of our Order. The first is by our Mother Dilecta (here at OLR).
with some poems by members of our Order. The first is by our Mother Dilecta (here at OLR).
9/11 A Commemoration
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| Lewis Williams |
waking very early
solidly dark here in the West
day dawning on the East coast
I find myself praying among the stars
darkness not a void but
a setting for the stars,
interplay of dark and light.
an owl murmurs,
murmuring a question
...we know now the answer
a stark 2,817 soul mates,
at least 2,817, the number unsure
as survivors of ground zero surface
having forgotten their own names
so brief the passing
of the shooting star
then across the sky
a pace regular and magnetic
the passage of a plane silently
(for some the last sensing was
sound and firey, fuel-fury).
From the distance of today
a stark beauty and patterned
meaning emerges in the sky:
somehow imbedded in the vastness
"Yahweh, God our God is One
Allah is great
Bless be Jesus Christ,
Firstborn of all creation"
someday to be uttered as
effulgence not controversy.
later in the light of day
the vastness remains
with no points of brightness
or connected patterns
but the stars unseen
are always with us.