Note to Readers: “Meditations in
Fast Times” is a devotional writing experiment for the Season of Lent. Each day
during the season, I am writing a poem as a meditation on, taking as my
inspiration and intertextual basis, T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”, as
well as incorporating the daily office, current events, and other readings—some
the same as those Eliot used while composing his seminal work and others.
23.
Not at the farther shore,
but the nearest one,
Not only for the ducks,
but for every living thing,
life-giving bread is cast.
but the nearest one,
Not only for the ducks,
but for every living thing,
life-giving bread is cast.
When clouds are full,
they empty their tears
upon the grounded years
of all our knowing,
a gift and a blessing.
they empty their tears
upon the grounded years
of all our knowing,
a gift and a blessing.
Loaves divided with love,
fragments of fish add flavor;
give a portion to seven
or even one thousand,
for who knows about tomorrow.
fragments of fish add flavor;
give a portion to seven
or even one thousand,
for who knows about tomorrow.
Sacrifice cannot be denied;
we receive only by giving,
water and fire cannot destroy
the meeting of I and Thou—
it is for this that we were made.
we receive only by giving,
water and fire cannot destroy
the meeting of I and Thou—
it is for this that we were made.
© 2014 by Elisabeth T. Eliassen
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