{"id":2808,"date":"2018-11-21T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:12","slug":"nov-21-morning-sun-fallen-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/11\/21\/nov-21-morning-sun-fallen-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 21 – morning sun & fallen leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 21 \u2014 \u00a0last day before U.S. Thanksgiving<\/p>\n

This delicate and demanding Hopkins poem is beautiful; these days of less and lesser sun make \u00a0a sweet time for Gerard Manley Hopkins\u2019\u00a0brilliant, understated poem about soft paced sorrow, and beauty, and the griefs of 2018,\u00a0another year that, with its gusts of wind and chilly temperatures,\u00a0 salutes its ending days.<\/p>\n

However, not every day is gloomy, not by a long shot. \u00a0Here\u2019s a look at morning sun rising above our snow dusted courtyard. \u00a0That the rising sun pours into my west window \u2014 after months when the late<\/strong>\u00a0afternoon<\/strong>\u00a0light showed off the glory of summer days \u2014 reminds us that these are shorter days (today\u2019s Detroit: sunrise to sunset\u00a0\u2014 7:30 am – 5:05 pm; in Stockholm, home of Nina, one of my Swedish soul friends, the days are already much shorter, nearly 2.5 hours shorter \u2014 7:55 am – 3:10 pm).<\/p>\n

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\n<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0November 20, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

Have a blest day,<\/p>\n

john st sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post \u201cSpring and Fall\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

to a young child<\/p>\n

M\u00e1rgar\u00e9t, \u00e1re you gr\u00edeving
\nOver Goldengrove unleaving?
\nLe\u00e1ves like the things of man, you
\nWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
\nAh! \u00e1s the heart grows older
\nIt will come to such sights colder
\nBy and by, nor spare a sigh
\nThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
\nAnd yet you w\u00edll weep and know why.
\nNow no matter, child, the name:
\nS\u00f3rrow\u2019s spr\u00edngs \u00e1re the same.
\nNor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
\nWhat heart heard of, ghost guessed:
\nIt \u00eds the blight man was born for,
\nIt is Margaret you mourn for.<\/p>\n

For an audio version, please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/44400\/spring-and-fall<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n1844 – 1889
\nG.M. Hopkins Bio:\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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