No Matter
Posted on | July 29, 2012 | 2 Comments
It’s about time for another love poem. The trip to Cyprus was prompted by the occasion of our thirtieth wedding anniversary, so it’s only appropriate that I move us from that travelblog to fresh reflections with a poem that popped up to celebrate that wondrous fact. As they say in the restaurants these days, enjoy.
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No matter
how the words spilled out in heat
the songs reverberated in the showers
the ripped red poems rejoiced and cried
the fantasies of fresh beginnings knit
our lives together in a single tapestry…
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William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
TURNINGS: Poems of Transformation
Like works in
wood upon a lathe, these poems are word-turnings that reveal the inner grain of our human experience. They are bowls to catch our turnings of memory, conversion, falling in love, and passing through our seasons and the wrenching turns that mark our lives. Above all these turnings are a shout of praise, a murmur of wonder, a turning away from life as usual, a merciful re-turning to the songs, images and stories that move our lives.
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Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838. You can get Red Clay, Blood River at:
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July 29th, 2012 @ 10:41 am
What a lovely poem!
Yes, matter matters for love to find its expression and fulfillment. Yet, love transcends matter and ultimately spirit matters! What fantastic thirty years of matter and spirit joined together in the embrace of love!
- a poor poetic response to your excellent poem.
Thomas.
July 30th, 2012 @ 1:03 pm
Bill
Another really great poem.
Thanks again for sharing with your readers.