Monday, March 3, 2025

a sonnet from clergy conference

 sacramental imagination


they gave us time to read and make our notes

to contemplate the pictures we were shown

the fragments of the works of storied poets

the carriers of beauty, awe, renown.


the feathered thing confined within a cage

whom powers strive to silence still does yearn

with urge to sing, bursting in every age:

The spark of love can never fail to burn.


This much I know: art must beget more art

No listeners here; we all join in the song

Each joy in conversation takes its part

The awe of beauty draws us to belong.


When faced with beauty all that one can do

Is join, creating more, forever new.

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