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Sonnet

A POEM

By “Julian Norwich” | May 1986

“Walk circumspectly, and redeem the time

Because the days are evil,” said Saint Paul.

And still they are, for ever since the Fall

This ancient world of ours keeps step with crime.

Still dancing for a dollar or a dime,

We try to buy up time, and lose it all.

The daily news continues to appall —

Wars, rumored wars, corruption, sickness, slime.

Yet though we live with tyranny and treason

Our Lord redeems the dance and keeps the time.

We can walk circumspect with perfect Reason,

For still beneath the clangor rings the chime —

For everything beneath the sun a season,

For each of us a reason and a rhyme.

To Phoebe*

Phoebe,

Gentle handmaid

Of us all,

Who assisted Paul

And others

Of the early church,

…

Autobiography of a Creature from Deep Heaven

I was the spark

who lit the face of God

when he flicked his rod

…

“Trilogy”

In the beginning
A Mind, Eternal.
Then

A mind, created.

A sweet Whispering,