Monday, April 24, 2006

Short Poem for a Monday

There is a
communion wafer moon
dissolving on the blue
tongue of the sky.

Sometimes the whole world
is nothing so much
as an altar
inviting us to kneel.


---Linford Detweiler of Over The Rhine

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Greatly appreciated. What a beautiful poem.

Keith "Nurse Keith" Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BC said...

Yes. And he and his wife are amazing songwriters, as well....