{"id":1617,"date":"2015-11-20T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:06","slug":"nov-20-sun-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/11\/20\/nov-20-sun-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 20 sun –> snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday November 20 \u2014 \u00a0the Work Day poetry list is back from its November break and G Stockhausen is heading home to DC<\/strong><\/p>\n

{see G Stock\u2019s Caring Bridge message}<\/p>\n

Sharp winds and, compared with an idyllic 1st half of November autumn, cold air is blowing around today: \u00a0it\u2019s easy to imagine Winter on its way despite today\u2019s brilliant sunshine: \u00a01-3 inches is predicted for tomorrow. \u00a0 \u00a0I looked for a poem about winter and found that I\u2019d posted a good one exactly 1 year less 1 day ago (Nov 21, 2014). \u00a0 The more I read David Whyte, the more I become a fan. \u00a0 His\u00a0\u201cThe Winter of Listening\u201d reminds me of a splendid one-liner written decades ago by the mystic Thomas Merton.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way of telling strangers they are all walking around shining like the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a blest weekend.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post \u201cThe Winter of Listening\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

No one but me by the fire,
\nmy hands burning
\nred in the palms while
\nthe night wind carries
\neverything away outside.<\/p>\n

All this petty worry
\nwhile the great cloak
\nof the sky grows dark
\nand intense
\nround every living thing.<\/p>\n

What is precious
\ninside us does not
\ncare to be known
\nby the mind
\nin ways that diminish
\nits presence.<\/p>\n

What we strive for
\nin perfection
\nis not what turns us
\ninto the lit angel
\nwe desire,<\/p>\n

what disturbs
\nand then nourishes
\nhas everything
\nwe need.<\/p>\n

What we hate
\nin ourselves
\nis what we cannot know
\nin ourselves but
\nwhat is true to the pattern
\ndoes not need
\nto be explained.<\/p>\n

Inside everyone
\nis a great shout of joy
\nwaiting to be born.<\/p>\n

Even with the summer
\nso far off
\nI feel it grown in me
\nnow and ready
\nto arrive in the world.<\/p>\n

All those years
\nlistening to those
\nwho had\u2028 nothing to say.<\/p>\n

All those years
\nforgetting
\nhow everything
\nhas its own voice
\nto make
\nitself heard.<\/p>\n

All those years
\nforgetting
\nhow easily
\nyou can belong
\nto everything
\nsimply by listening.<\/p>\n

And the slow
\ndifficulty
\nof remembering
\nhow everything
\nis born from
\nan opposite
\nand miraculous
\notherness.<\/p>\n

Silence and winter
\nhas led me to that
\notherness.<\/p>\n

So let this winter
\nof listening
\nbe enough
\nfor the new life
\nI must call my own.<\/p>\n

David Whyte<\/p>\n

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