Ponderable and poem for Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Alan Harris
Dec 15, 2009, 12:35:37 AM12/15/09
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Authority without love is a universal poison.
Oaks Near Town
Black and green
under sunlight
stand these aged oaks,
seasoned wisdom in wood.
"Believe, believe!"
preaches the chapel bell
from a spire in town
to the congregated trees
which, distanced from doctrine,
stand firmly unnoticing
with their branches spread wider
and trunks planted deeper
and roots drinking more serenely
of a living water holier
than even believing can ever
believe belief capable of believing.
Clanging soon ends
and relinquishes
to the forest its
sacred silence.
under sunlight
stand these aged oaks,
seasoned wisdom in wood.
"Believe, believe!"
preaches the chapel bell
from a spire in town
to the congregated trees
which, distanced from doctrine,
stand firmly unnoticing
with their branches spread wider
and trunks planted deeper
and roots drinking more serenely
of a living water holier
than even believing can ever
believe belief capable of believing.
Clanging soon ends
and relinquishes
to the forest its
sacred silence.
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Alan Harris
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