Revelation on the Horizon

A poem and a picture from a CARM www.carmretreats.org/poetry, painting and prayer retreat. We were invited to build a poem on the foundation of the first two lines of Louis MacNeice's The Sunlight in the Garden. This doesn't catch the metre of MacNeice's poem but it draws on the delight and surprise that can inspire us to explore beyond the earth's boundaries.

Revelation

The sunlight on the garden

Dithers and grows cold

As evening clouds, opaque as jet

Gather and unfold

Their billowing skirts

To haste the end

Of a ‘til then muggy day

And weary mammals limpidly wend

To holes ahead of the rain.

Then just when the storm

Seems poised to attack,

In the west, an opal bar

Flashes out from beneath the black

To reveal the evening star.

If this awakened or reawakened an interest in astronomy/ cosmology, you may be interested to see the index of poems with such themes by CLICKING HERE