Showing posts with label The Advent of Our Discontent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Advent of Our Discontent. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2022

On the Eve of Advent - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

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

Thursday, December 10, 2020

The Advent of Our Discontent - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

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

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

The Advent of Our Discontent

 

-As Shakespeare did not say

 

Everyone accuses everyone else

Of treason; they’d call each other Quislings

If they had any history, but they don’t

Only Hochhuth and Unferth on the air

 

But you and I have wood to split and stack

The garden to level and put to sleep

Cows to get up for the milking at dusk

And in the evening, a cozy fire to watch

 

Oh, listen to the migrating geese, up high!

Unlike us humans, they never learned to lie