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Inadequacy
Author:
Eirien PM
How creation portrays the Creator just as poetry tries to portray creation - and yet both are inadequate mirrors.
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 5 - Words: 444 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 03-27-12 - Status: Complete - id: 3008424
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Air Mail II

Whenever longing blows within me
and drives my feather heart around
like dry leaves in their autumn dance
I am dashed against my pen
– right now again –
so how can I complain about
just cornflowers
when I paint You some verses to collect
(still-life, life-less)
instead of seeking, asking, knocking at Your door –
and You might actually open!
Oh my!
I really should so much rather stop this and…

July 1995

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