Poetry list
corpus christi
the bread is
miracle
but the miracle
is miracle for
us who live in
prose and
half–hearted love
and passion
faith burns and
sets alight an
inconvenient truth
when we want the
power and control
even the loaf is a
fantasy of chemistry
when wheat and
yeast and water
are fired by the
miracle of alchemy
to feed and to
delight us all
our days the
author and
magician is
flesh and bread
ferment and blood
giver and gift
it can’t happen
in your head or
stomach only in
your heart and
soul where heaven
abides if you let
it the priest and
victim are one
but not the same
are real but never
owned lasting but
a little for ever
till the end when
time dissolves the
loaf and cup
and glory feeds
us in the golden
moment that was
and is and never
ceased
corpus christi
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