I wanna reblog this powerful poem…capturing existence in this sphere we inhabit. And note the answer: Incarnation
Vespers
In your extended absence, you permit me
use of earth, anticipating
some return on investment. I must report
failure in my assignment, principally
regarding tomato plants.
I think I should not be encouraged to grow
tomatoes. Or, if I am, you should withhold
the heavy rains, the cold nights that come
so often here, while other regions get
twelve weeks of summer. All this
belongs to you: on the other hand,
I planted the seeds, I watched the first shoots
like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly
multiplying in the rows. I doubt
you have a heart, in our understanding of
that term. You who do not discriminate
between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,
immune to foreshadowing, you may not know
how much terror we bear, the spotted leaf,
the red leaves of…
View original post 26 more words
Charissa's Grace Notes 
Isn’t it beautiful??? 🙂
Omg…it astounded me in how simple and plaintive it was…but there is this towering stillness at its heart, like when one is on the edge of a big chasm and all the sound of that distance and gap and the sound of the cliffs and rocks so distant, standing there silent and so loud…
I loved the pivot of it around the subtle blame passed out, and then the acknowledgement of participation in the processes… it just sorta teeters there in a game of teeter totter.
That was where my comment about the Incarnation arose…I was seeking to identify the pivot point and that word flashed into my heart as the answer. And by the way, it is an answer that has always been so incomprehensible to me and yet somehow my heart grasps it even still.
Yeah…it really knocks me out, this one. Thanks for posting it in the first place.
Yes, you put into words exactly what I was feeling with this poem, too. 🙂
Oh too cool! I love that!
🙂
oh and this summer i did try to grow tomatoes…operative word is that lil 3 letter one that starts with t and ends in ry lol!