-- Earth’s Color –

John Herlihy

I wanted to compose a beautiful poem,

Verses with the lyrics of a sacred hymn.

But the world wrote a poem on its own

As poets through nature’s beauty roam.

To write with the ink of the heavenly sky,

To translate into words the reasons why.

A calligraphy of worship in shades of blue,

To draw from some inner well all I knew.

Then realize that the world untranslatable,

To capture its vaulting spirit unachievable.

Such beauty only dreamed of and touched,

As all our human pretensions are crushed.

Earth’s color spilled from the Divine Pen,

The poet thinks only of where and when.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Monday 30 August 2021