Lifes Growing Joy Poem Within a Poem
*** Life’s Growing Joy Poem Within a Poem ***
My 70’s may be the decade
For reaching my pathway’s
Ends and Epiphanies: a service of ‘Lessons and Pains’
— To help my growing….
For example, Truths that I heard repeatedly,
I now believe well enough to take
My spirit from Dreams to Actuality — metaphorically then —
— I lean into the sky as a noteworthy Gnarly Tree…
Also a lesson such as, ‘God lives within us,’ although
It’s hard for me to understand why Our Holy God opts
To be threading through these rickety,
— These creaking and oddly angling limbs….
Plus, like so many of the eternal, quite externally-wrought necesities
Are thought to bring to us every happiness: from wealth or friends;
Or, all the sweet, easy hours of comfort soaking in starlight and sun,
— Ignoring the wildly waving grass underneath…
The knowing of happines raises its cherished supports not from beyond,
But from within hearts treasuring freedom and wonder,
Focussed on what is Other — in those moments when ego’s set aside —
— While divinely coaxed roots of Joy, grow deeper, longer
Through time, betwixt Heaven and Earth to blessedly radiate and thrive…
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(c) 6/22/2023 sally young eslinger
Thanks be to God—
* (In the Episcopal Church, just before Christmas, there
is a service called “Lessons and Carols,” telling the story of the birth of Christ.
** Please note! This could be considered an “Experimental” Poem, because, in a 2nd read, following the dashes, there IS to be found a poem-within-a-poem. Hope you enjoyed them both! Hugs & blessings,
sally
Copyright © Sally Eslinger | Year Posted 2023
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