Survivors’ Poetry’s newsletter Poetry Express has published three more of my poems in the latest issue (#61). The poems have been published here previously and are:
(read on here)
Tag: Grace
spotlight on . . . grace
“the experience of being delivered from experience”, Martin Luther
a figure awaiting her own sculptress
to deliver her from stone retreat
knows a dream – sun marbled skin uncovered
ease of limbs free to be observed
simply present, still, in every moment
truth ringing through her pose
A. H / K.H-H (7th November 2019)
originally posted at https://ablindcatchinthesun.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/grace/
grace
a figure awaiting her own sculptress
to deliver her from stone retreat
knows a dream – sun marbled skin uncovered
ease of limbs free to be observed
simply present, still, in every moment
truth ringing through her pose
A. H / K.H-H (7th November 2019)
Instead of just gushing, as sometimes I do (for good and bad reasons), I picked a theme and tried to write seriously as I can, an ear to metre and coherence.
I learned this year that Martin Luther described Grace as “the experience of being delivered from experience”. It’s one of the reasons I wrote this.
XXIII (’19)
true face begins
behind the face
on into an infinity
of tenderness
refusing to throw all in
to all the offered
all our taken
misunderstandings
K. H-H / A. H (13th May 2019)
Hitchcock – Sabotage (1936)
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Hitchcock – The 39 Steps (1935)
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