02/13/2010

I still don't understand just how this program works: the immediately proceeding post was a copy of my offering as a comment in Hecate one of my favorite, go there daily sites. I was startled and delighted to find the Merton poem there and I was startled and delighted with Merton's poem just delighted. I wanted to capture the poem and my response to it.
Early morning-I love to write in the dark before anyone else gets up. steve gets up but has his own writing to do sp he writes in hiw room and I write in mine.
No change in the money house so I will bake bread today and make soup and write and watch the Olympics although there has been a death of a young luge driver and I am not so enchanted at the moment but the athletes are so lovely, so strong and focused and they draw me away from my own worries.
WELL!! Scientist, no doubt working for Nestles, are thinking that eating chocolate my help prevent strokes. HEHEHE!! I can see it now sitting here trying to write while my hand is in a pile of chocolate.CURRENT MOON
moon phases
Friday, February 12, 2010
Friday Poetry Blogging
O Sweet Irrational Worship

by Thomas Merton

Wind and a bobwhite
And the afternoon sun.

By ceasing to question the sun
I have become light,

Bird and wind.

My leaves sing.

I am earth, earth

All these lighted things
Grow from my heart.

A tall, spare pine
Stands like the initial of my first
Name when I had one.

When I had a spirit,
When I was on fire
When this valley was
Made out of fresh air
You spoke my name
In naming Your silence:
O sweet, irrational worship!

I am earth, earth

My heart's love
Bursts with hay and flowers.
I am a lake of blue air
In which my own appointed place
Field and valley
Stand reflected.

I am earth, earth

Out of my grass heart
Rises the bobwhite.

Out of my nameless weeds
His foolish worship. 00
Early morning news: the assholes believe that this monster winter is proof that there is no climate change going on. Inofe,DeMenthe (spg??)two idiots who are rightwingers. Inoffe is an MD wonder how this hater ever got through medical school. Well I imagine that I am sounding like a hater myself right now and I imagine that I am at least towards these extreme right-wingers and their Jesus who is coming back. Their- what is it? one hundred forty five thousand going home to Jesus? I wonder if they even realize what a small number of humans that is? Do they honestly think that they will get the call? and why would one want a heaven so heavily segregated and so hopelessly cruel-I mean only a few grains of sand chosen from the entire beach!!
I am a Mother lover. My Mother supports us all strong in the wisdom that we will all end up with the fruits of our labors. My Mther