Finally! A Return to the More Poetic Side of Things....

Fair welcome back to you, friends!  My latest offering I provide you here, after somewhat of a long dearth of poetic productions; make of it what you will!  Just one reminder before you forge ahead: the world is not always as it seems....

+JMJ

Stille Nacht*

By Caitlin Clancy

Copyright 2014

“He said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.  When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave.”

            1 Kings 19:11-14

The lamb cries out

In the sheltered fold

Against the cold

Against the cold

The lamb cries out

In the sheltered fold

And the ewe answers back

The wild white starts

Burn in the night

Ever so bright

Ever so bright

The wild white stars

Burn in the night

And the young child looks on

Softly the wind

Walks in the dark

Caressing the lamb

Fondling the lark

Softly the wind

Walks in the dark

And the prostrate world lies still.

*German for Silent Night.