Monday, September 26, 2011

A Nod To Gerard Manly Hopkins


Glory be to God for cloudy days
And blustering winds, and red runny noses
And frigid, frozen, frosty air.
I shudder, yet I stop and praise
The glorious maker of holly and roses,
While mittens and jackets rush here and rush there.

Standing on the brown dead land
I look to the grey and roiling sky,
Exhaling a prayer with visible breath.
I stand in awe of the omnipotent hand
And the eye, the oh-so-wondrous eye,
That can see the beauty in death.

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