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The Little World
"None of the answers of my pious preceptors would satisfy me, and my demands that they cease taking things for granted quite upset them. Close reasoning was something new in their little world of Semitic mythology." - H. P. Lovecraft
Read to me the lesson
and I'll memorise the words,
sing to me the standard songs
and I'll recall the tune...
The stories told
time and time again
create a world
as wholly and as magically
as when the eternal hands crafted
sea, and sky, and soil.
The Book is a door
and the Word is a candle
lighting the dark room beyond.
When I am close to Thee,
then I am close to a place
where light charges the bones.
So read to me the lesson
and I'll memorise the words,
sing to me the standard songs
and I'll recall the tune...
Read to me the lesson
and I'll memorise the words,
sing to me the standard songs
and I'll recall the tune...
The stories told
time and time again
create a world
as wholly and as magically
as when the eternal hands crafted
sea, and sky, and soil.
The Book is a door
and the Word is a candle
lighting the dark room beyond.
When I am close to Thee,
then I am close to a place
where light charges the bones.
So read to me the lesson
and I'll memorise the words,
sing to me the standard songs
and I'll recall the tune...
Published 1st Apr 2017
| Edited 27th Sep 2018
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2nd Apr 2017 00:32am
2nd Apr 2017 00:41am
Jack this is a very great write indeed one of your very best to me anyway.. it made me happy and melancholy at the same time..
love Brenda
love Brenda
2nd Apr 2017 00:41am
"then I am close to a place
where light charges the bones"
You could finish the poem with those profound lines.
Alternatively, I would have stripped back the last stanza to something like:
"so read and sing
I will memorise the words
and recall the tune"
Those are just my thoughts... regardless, I think the poem is bloody fantastic, and it's already on my reading list, so don't touch it, it's your poem written in Heslop's impeccable style and that's totally cool.
where light charges the bones"
You could finish the poem with those profound lines.
Alternatively, I would have stripped back the last stanza to something like:
"so read and sing
I will memorise the words
and recall the tune"
Those are just my thoughts... regardless, I think the poem is bloody fantastic, and it's already on my reading list, so don't touch it, it's your poem written in Heslop's impeccable style and that's totally cool.
2nd Apr 2017 11:19am
sea & sky & soil;
the Candle will get us beyond the Door.
incredible poetry...
the Candle will get us beyond the Door.
incredible poetry...
6th Apr 2017 4:27pm
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6th May 2017 10:36am
Congratulations! This poem has been nominated for Deep Underground Poetry's Featured Poem of the Month Competition. You may view the nomination at the link below, and will be notified if selected.
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Best of Luck and thank you for being a member of the Deep Side! Poet
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