Showing posts with label Advent is a Gift of Becoming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advent is a Gift of Becoming. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2022

On the Eve of Advent - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

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On the Eve of Advent

 

On the eve of Advent Jupiter ascends

As is his custom at dusk this time of year

Then Mars and the company of Orion

And all the dutiful stars awake, arise

 

To mark the passing of Ordinary Time

And arc into the west and disappear

Late leaves rustle unseen in the deepening dark

We whisper our Compline prayers along with them

 

And in the absence of light await the Light

Which will appear in the most unlikely places

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Advent - a Gift of Becoming - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com


Advent – a Gift of Becoming

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new”

-“The Coming of Arthur” and “The Passing of Arthur” in Idylls of the King

 

There is much to be said for Ordinary Time

Its very ordinariness is kind to us

The daily hours that end with the Vespers chime

Free of formation and pageantry

 

But Advent comes as part of the dance

Of seasons wheeling through the universe

And we must shift our thoughts back into time

In anticipation of the Nativity

 

In solitary splendor a wonderful Star

Gives us light for our pilgrimage renewed