A Few Small Stumbling Steps

~

Here

On the top of Brown Clee

~

It is no mystery

Why hills give

~

That sense

Of perspective

~

Human life

Must accept with humility

~

That all

Our little dramas

~

Are just a few small

Stumbling steps

~

In

Eternity.

~

From the summit of Abdon Burf, Brown Clee Hill, September 2021

Here We Belong

~

The blessings

Of this breeze

~

Makes the grasses

Respond

~

Here we belong

Amongst hills and plains

~

Amongst the birds

And the trees

~

Until we discover

The blessing

~

Of a fuller

Eternity.

~

from The Lawley, Shropshire

Consolation

~

In the morning

I climb

~

And time

Is in love with eternity

~

And here there is

No consternation

~

The mystery

Of life is still

~

And now the heart

Can have its fill

~

Of sweet and satisfying

Consolation.

~

Enclosing The Silence

Enclosing

The silence

.

And the space

Where once stood

.

The wooden

Saxon church

.

Now stone

Glass

.

And arches

That span

.

Mortality

To eternity.

.

This poem was inspired by Shrewsbury Abbey

Icons to Eternity

Can we build

Icons to eternity?

.

Or are they created

Through our artists’ hands?

.

How did God

Put heaven in our hearts

.

By these stones

This empty space

.

This wondrous

Light?

By Diliff – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34034139

A Place To Meet – A Time In Eternity

Here

Is a place

.

To meet

With one

.

Who rises

Daily

.

You come

To a time

.

In eternity

And your soul

.

Confronts

Mortality

.

And one waits

Beckoning

.

Always having

Journeyed before.

.

The Reredos at Shrewsbury Abbey, showing the Crucifixion and Resurrection

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