When I restarted posting last weekend my plan was that I would post today's piece on Thursday, which was National Poetry day here in the UK... But as another poet said "the the best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley..." And so today, in this continuing series based on our Harvest Celebration of Creation and Creativity, I post one of my favourite poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins... Enjoy both it and the wonderful world it describes... And praise the one who made them both possible...
Then God said,
"Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the
land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds."
And it was so. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was
morning - the third day.
Genesis 1: 11-13
Glory be to
God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a
brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon
trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls;
finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pierced –
fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and
tackle and trim.
All things counter, original,
spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who
knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour;
adazzle dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is
past change:
Praise him.
Shalom
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