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April 8, 2007
happy Easter!
in honor of this day of renewal, hope, resurrection, forgiveness, new beginnings, life, and joy, i offer this poem, Welcome Morning, that i have been chewing on...thinking about how the everyday can be transformed into an act of grace; a miracle of the quietly holy. it's very slightly modified, for me, and i truly hope that Anne Sexton would not have minded.
There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the soft white towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry of the kettle
that heat my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry "hello there, Hadashi"
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my silver, plate, cup upon
each morning,
All this is of God,
right here in my blue-white house
each morning
and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks,
to faint down by the kitchen table
in a prayer of rejoicing
as the holy birds at the kitchen window
peck into their marriage of seeds.
So while I think of it,
let me paint a thank-you on my palm
for this God, this laughter of the morning,
lest it go unspoken.
This Joy that isn't shared, I've heard,
dies young.
Posted by hadashi at April 8, 2007 12:25 PM
Comments
Oh, that is lovely.
Posted by: Jenny 
at April 18, 2007 9:56 AM
thanks, Mizz Jenny!
Posted by: hadashi at April 23, 2007 11:34 AM
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