The Body Is a Love Song to God
The body is a love song to god-
To god: all the other sounds drown
When the most lovely sound,
Of the body is found;
All it’s being resounds with
I Am.
Seventy-odd times a minute-
All the while continues beating:
Blood entering, blood leaving,
The vital circuit completing;
It’s every cymbal repeating
I Am.
The lungs formed like a bellows-
To tell us: with their rhythms
What the makers own hymn is;
That wherever the air breathes and
Where chest sinks and heaves, there
I Am.
Ceaseless song always arriving-
Proof of presence: it’s reviving
From the darkness, exhuming us;
The light of god luminous:
Out of love so all-consuming
I Am.
Pendemic
Patti this poem is priceless! What a way to look at life! You mesmerized me with this one.
Patti this poem is priceless! What a way to look at life! You mesmerized me with this one.
Ernestine Northover
This is wonderful, such explanation, which is always bringing us back to 'I AM', two words that say so much. A lovely thoughtful piece linking us with God, physically and spiritually.
This is wonderful, such explanation, which is always bringing us back to 'I AM', two words that say so much. A lovely thoughtful piece linking us with God, physically and spiritually.
Lillian Susan Thomas
WOW! I have read and like many of your poems, but this is exemplary in every way. I have to agree with all the comments, and Faye is absolutely right, the music of the words really comes alive when read out loud. If you go to poetry readings this should be the top of your stack of poems you want to share.
WOW! I have read and like many of your poems, but this is exemplary in every way. I have to agree with all the comments, and Faye is absolutely right, the music of the words really comes alive when read out loud. If you go to poetry readings this should be the top of your stack of poems you want to share.
Frank Lambert
It's odd, or maybe not, but it's only recently that I could have understood a poem like this. It's part of my search. Anyway, I am has sent me to this verse.
It's odd, or maybe not, but it's only recently that I could have understood a poem like this. It's part of my search. Anyway, I am has sent me to this verse.
Fay Slimm
The sound of this in reading aloud exemplifies the repetition of the hymn-like chant of "I am". - - Love personified is the wondrous body and which you crystallised here with poetic skill.
The sound of this in reading aloud exemplifies the repetition of the hymn-like chant of "I am". - - Love personified is the wondrous body and which you crystallised here with poetic skill.
Susan Jarvis
This wonderful, lyrical hymn of a poem reminds me of René Descartes quote: 'I think, therefore I am' - and this magnificent piece bares the golden hallmark of an imaginative and creative brain!
This wonderful, lyrical hymn of a poem reminds me of René Descartes quote: 'I think, therefore I am' - and this magnificent piece bares the golden hallmark of an imaginative and creative brain!
sonetta
the song of life...ah, this is music to my ears....
the song of life...ah, this is music to my ears....
stephen
you left out the sound of your heart dragging ink over parchment. I Am, Love
you left out the sound of your heart dragging ink over parchment. I Am, Love
I so enjoy reading you. So serious, so funny, so full of life, I might have feelings for you