Poetry Friday - Sing, Spirit!

 

                                                            

                                                                                 
                                                            Photo by my daughter, Katie
SOUL RENEWAL

Sing, Spirit!
Set out on feathery wings.
Dip and weave,
soar and sail,
then come back to me.

Bring the message songs
you heard from God.

Return from your journey
settle and perch,
windswept and wise,
and whistle whisper
to my soul.

This poem emerged after a three-day writing retreat with Choice Literacy's amazing, creative, kind people/contributors and reading the blogs from the insightful and inspiring folks who linked up to my Spiritual Journey Thursday post.  I feel like my soul has been renewed and strengthened.  The bird images were inspired from reading Mary Lee's poem today (I was blessed that she was at the retreat) and the reference to Emily Dickinson's "Hope is a Thing with Feathers" in Hope is a Ferris Wheel by Robin Herrera, a book I just finished.  Thank you, fellow writers, for enriching my life!


Visit Buffy for the poetry roundup this week at Buffy's Blog.

Hope is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

 

Hope is the thing with feathers  
That perches in the soul,  
And sings the tune without the words,  
And never stops at all,  
   
And sweetest in the gale is heard;          
And sore must be the storm  
That could abash the little bird  
That kept so many warm.  
   
I’ve heard it in the chillest land,  
And on the strangest sea;         
Yet, never, in extremity,  
It asked a crumb of me.