Long after the last evensong. For Friend Tate.

narrative verse.

 

 

Long after the last evensong.

 

The ancient church in ruins lies.

Time and neglect have laid it low.

There’s just enough to recognise.

It was a church once, long ago.

 

Religion’s less important now.

Most modernists are atheists

The shattered fragments tend to show.

The power of legends to persist.

 

Researching family history.

I came across a strange story.

It seems that in the distant past,

 an ancestor: perhaps the last.

 

Of the family to believe.

The teachings of the church were true.

Thought he had been blessed to receive.

A vision of the church when new.

 

The record written in his hand.

Preserved within the family.

Though difficult to understand.

Retains an air of mystery.

 

Though I accept that he believed.

He trusted God implicitly

I tend to think he was deceived

 by illness striking suddenly.

 

I am not qualified to say

 that  anything’s impossible.

The tricks the human mind can play.

Convince me that it’s probable.

 

The human mind can’t be confined.

By any laws we think we know.

It has been specially designed.

So that it’s free to come and go.

 

Both to the future and the past

 and to return with memories.

So vivid that they tend to last.

Despite the passing centuries.

 

Perhaps one day we’ll understand.

These visions granted to the few.

And not dismiss them out of hand.

Because we can’t believe they’re true..

 

I don’t believe my ancestor

Was the kind of man who lied.

And that he had good reason for.

The tale he told with quiet pride.

 

Sunday, 09 January 2011

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Reviews

[Tommy]

I love the exposure you bring back to the different styles of poetry. I agree with your write; the mind is vastly underestimated. However, I am sure it must be like you said, "It has been specially designed."

This is a great write!
RLG,
Tommy

[G. K. Bostic]

Excellent and provocative. So very well written and with a quiet wisdom...our minds freedom to come and go......so much enjoyed by this reader.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

The human mind can’t be confined.
By any laws we think we know.
It has been specially designed.
So that it’s free to come and go.

God gave us the gift of freewill so that we can earn our way into heaven... it just seems everyone has there own way of finding that path... nobody knows who is right or wrong we just do our best as humans.

[Tate Morgan]

I must say I do not disagree It is a special thing to have a vision.Perhaps it is wrong to think too much about it.It wasn't our vision.And so we are not able to discount it But I do believe that this person believes in the vision.Besides who does it hurt to believe in something good ?To believe in someone good? I don't think it does.I went to a jehova witness mass last week because an old friend i love so much wanted me to .So I did And I do think she believes with all her heart .Who am I to take her hope I have nothing comparable to offer her to replace it.And who wants to go on without hope ?

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Interesting penmanship...love both of you poets immensely. Nicely done!
Thanks.
Light,
Siddartha