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Friday, January 8, 2010

POETRY FRIDAY- FOUND POEM


A found poem from C.S. Lewis, one of my favorite authors, after a long hard week of bitter cold, long and icy commutes, and difficult teenagers…

"I Thank Him for the Winter"

As the winter in my heart
slows from the cold of pain,

the sun still shines,
and reminds me,

that He is coming
and He brings Spring,
with Him

and so I thank Him for the winter.

I don't understand
the cold
of my snow-frost
Winterheart;

maybe it is to dull the pain,

or maybe this blizzard
is the last stand
of an Enemy

who knows
his tyranny
is kindle

for an unforgiving
blazing end
that is soon to come

and maybe
it is for us
to understand

How He
who has sustained us

feels

being so far
separated

from us…

and so I thank Him for the winter.

C.S. Lewis

2 comments:

Mary Lee said...

Nice.

Sending you warm thoughts for a better week after a weekend of rest (probably not...probably doing the basketball practice/game shuffle...but I'll wish some rest for you).

Irene Latham said...

Thanks for this reminder of C.S. Lewis... I was just thinking of him quote: "You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."