New Beginnings In Stone
New Beginnings in Stone
Now rising from a silhouette stronghold stands in its shadow, a servant’s heart
Enters tenacious consecrated emptiness as hope ponders three distant pipes
When black crust lichen invades – enslaves - the mason’s ancient framework
Bits of falling pebbles facelift rough cheeks pitted by mortar’s mortal tears
Even as granite blocks shudder in grieving poverty of unsettled gloom
Grabs at careless jaundice of moss and age - scribed ascent of ancient angels
In three corniced images of corn and elephants restored -
Nascent tree of life woven into a fabric of stone
Navigates new christened knights and chisels to one Nativity
In a carved and raised relief that points to the empty Sunday morning tomb
Gospel message told in vaulted arches -in rainbows of alabaster illumination -
Soaring sandstone above sanctified crypts of holy mysteries, legend entwined
Intrigue of time – visions of a hallowed grail, lost to crusaders’ eyes,
Noble dream to beatify three times three prophecies of the anointed
Strong walls like Templar’s arms guard breathing stone in carved canopies
Tales of a blessed grail protected in a new grail, synonym for the redeemed,
On armored feet for pilgrim’s eyes searching holy treasure in stone
Now a living citadel of a new beginning with no
End in three persons.
Dedicated to the restoration, the new life, of Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland.
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