Posts Tagged heaven
WHICH PASSETH UNDERSTANDING
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on May 25th, 2011
With wind soughing in the churchyard yews,
lichen marking the gravestones of labourer
and landowner, Saxon foundations,
mediaeval tower, sunlight fitful
through worthy Victorian stained glass,
a brass plaque for ‘those who gave their lives’,
the wheezy organ, the orotund Order
for the Burial of the Dead, ‘I am the
resurrection and the life…’ the vicar’s
gentle eulogy of the deceased,
one is almost tempted to wish God
were in his heaven where ‘we shall all
be changed…in the twinkling of an eye’
but common sense prevails.
REPRISE
Posted by David Selzer in Poetry on August 28th, 2010
Window, KwaZulu-Natal © SCES 2006
This is a declaration of love
on August the 6th, our anniversary.
Here is your essence: the pathos of ink
pristine on domesday parchment makes you cry -
“Ah, bless them!” you say – not only the sad,
the halt but the deluded and the unmasked.
Wisely, you leave me few pretensions.
On Hiroshima Day, I celebrate
our forty four years with ephemera:
images of figures in landscapes;
walking an ancient copse full of wild
garlic and forget-me-nots, heaven’s colours -
and saying, “I love you”.
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