SURROUNDED BY THE SACRED

 

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SURROUNDED BY THE SACRED

When I was a kid

if you dropped a prayer book

you had to kiss it after you picked it up

I feel that way

about most any book

          well, not Mein Kampf, say

                    but any work charged

                    with the love of writing

                    or of making

         

          The Joy of Cooking, say.

The sacred can be so embarrassing

          not so much when we are alone

         

          more so in polite company

          where a fervent

                    Thank God, or even

                              Oh my goodness

          might be viewed as quaint

and where a sign of the cross

          (Christian or Elemental)

would be thought deranged.

We’re surrounded

by the sacred

All Life – All Living

Why would that be embarrassing?

You are the blossom

the

hummingbird

visits

sacred

If you fell

I’d pick you up

and if you’d like

I’d kiss you.

RW

Guanajuato, Mex

Martin Luther King Day

01.20.2002

(I have no financial interest in the novica website.)