Slow peel foil lid crinkled, folded
Back, magisterial bliss:
Vital, viable, mindful fuel.
Vanilla beans dehisce
Plumes of purity; savored - full
Spoon - flavors coalescing,
Kissing taste buds: a kind of clarity:
The means: a palate’s blessing.
Treasured cup, the Spirit of Truth protects
So that all may relish.
Saints wait with great expectation
For you to taste, perish
Not, the purest dollop, preserved,
Served fresh, lite, slightly chilled.
Today’s fillip - your lips - My desire.
See the angels gasp, thrilled!
Faith, morals safeguarded: revealed
Truth! Sublime, varied depth,
Layer upon layer, new cream
Delights to take one’s breath.
To climb! A sudden shift, a broad
Shaft of sunlight illumines
Floating things; a bud ladened branch.
Plumb deep! Mere humans,
Unfurling perfumed rose petals,
Waif yet wafting lumens.
Skyward flight: sapient novices and
A numinous chime of blue wrens!
Gary Edward Geraci
The Magisterium - infinitely beautiful and nourishing in a world marred by falsehood.
ReplyDeleteWriting this poem, I used the palimpsest method: I wrote out a well known poem, “Come Holy Spirit” on my left page (the muse), prayed for inspiration, and started to write out a new poem on the right page, “Blue Wrens.” The existing poem serves to direct the poet in the line length, number of syllables, and rhyming form to use. This frees up the poet to concentrate on diction and theme. Of course I had a new subject in mind, the beauty and reliability of the Catholic Magisterium; teachings; the infallible teachings of Christ through scripture and tradition that have been, we believe, supernaturally preserved through the ages so as to be passed on to contemporary and future Christians and Catholics alike. But I needed a simple metaphor to break down this somewhat abstract authority known as the Magisterium and so I selected an ancient yet contemporary food item, yogurt, to do so. When the news is bad and the country is still oh so divided - how comforting, TRUE, and totally reliable and refreshing that fresh cup of yogurt is. If you’ve never had the pleasure to crack open the lid of a papal encyclical, why not start today - with a cup of yogurt in hand of course. “The Documents of Vatican II: with Notes and Index” by St Pauls Publication is a stunning collection. In particular, I love “Lumen Gentium” and “Dei Verbum.” In reading these works, like the final turn in my poem, you too will find yourself among “wafting lumens” your spirit and soul soaring, taking a “skyward flight” with God’s magnificent creation of songbirds, a “chime of blue wrens.” The Magisterium - infinitely beautiful and nourishing in a world marred by falsehood, scandal, corruption, and crimes against purity lights the way - the darkness will never prevail.
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