Thursday, December 31, 2020

Two Poems and a Poem: Ritual One, Day 4

 Two Poems:

“How to Shear a Sheep” by Barbara Kingsolver

“Complaint of El Rio Grande” by Richard Blanco


A Poem:

Entreaty

by ljkemp

Stand naked in the morning with your entreaty

in your own eyes and in the eyes of God 

bare the way you arrived,

plea to see you in your awesomeness 

it is in this image we are most alike, most human

It is in the mirror, naked before only God

we see ourselves, we see the truth we know we know:

We are one in one another.



 


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