I posted the following poems on my Live Journal just now and this seems like a good thread to put them in.
EASTER DAY
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a true blue dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and of wings: and of the gay
great happenings illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any - lifted from the no
of all nothing - human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
e.e. cummings
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Resurrection Thou -
Bright Morning Star -
Lord of the Dance -
Leap of Faith-
Stillness of Joy -
ALL HAIL!
Jim Cotter
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CORN KING
Corn King
spring!
leap, leap. Lord of light,
dance, dance, dear delight.
Grain buried deep
today, tomorrow, sleep
then
lightward
larkward
skyward
Godward
leap
bright to death
Broken corn King harvested,
thrashed, ground, milled for bread
at daylight leap
from your dark sleep.
Harvester, begin
the dance, the dear delight.
Yielded sheaves, golden bright,
a garnered horde
welcome their harvest lord
while corn-fat valleys shout and sing
honouring
the harvest king,
feasting the harvest home
with broken bread and one cry: Come!
Jenny Robertson