Monday, December 3, 2012

that conversation

Something in this silence
needs to be loved.
Its breath wants
the careful religion
of attention. Each
smoky sigh deepens
the wordless blessing
of this ache. My eyes wait
in the dark for the tender
call of Nothing.
Anywhere can be the
meeting-place of
hymn and emptiness,
the marriage bed
of praise and distance.
Listen for that
conversation, and
be ready
to leave your life.

©Laura Sorrells 2012
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5 comments:

  1. Geo.December 3, 2012 at 5:27 PM

    Photograph and poem are beautifully matched in selective focus. My compliments!

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  2. Mr. McgranorDecember 3, 2012 at 6:17 PM

    I did not heed the photograph. The poem speaks for itself.

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  3. LauraDecember 3, 2012 at 6:31 PM

    Thank you. Both comments make me very happy. I wrote this yesterday while on retreat at the Trappist monastery in Conyers, sitting by a small lake.

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  4. StratozDecember 11, 2012 at 7:10 PM

    Thanks for sharing this reflection. It was good to slow down for a moment with your words.

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  5. LauraDecember 15, 2012 at 3:13 PM

    I am glad.

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I live at the edge of the forest in a little town in the north Georgia mountains. I teach sixth grade Language Arts and am writing a memoir of sorts about family, spirituality, and narrative. I am also exploring a possible writing project having to do with contemporary lay contemplative experience and how it might be informed by the Desert Fathers and Mothers of early Christianity. I am a relatively recent convert to Roman Catholicism and an admirer of Pope Francis, Leonardo Boff, Joan Chittister, and Richard Rohr. I'm a Lay Associate of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery in Conyers, Georgia. I am interested in indigenous cultures, narratives, and spirituality, especially how these can inform my spirituality as a lay contemplative. I write, read, take pictures, play around with creating ephemera from paper and cloth and other organic things. I cook, hike, watch wildlife, and collect random bits of interesting oddness, both tangible and abstract. I am a seer of smallness and a caretaker of ridiculous minutiae. If you want, e-mail me at riverrun67@gmail.com or lksorrells@hotmail.com.