from 'While Passing Through'/Winter
Knuckles knock the one.
Fingers pass through the other.
Is either more real?
Very good question. My guess is that it depends on which side of eternity you're standing on. [physically or spiritually] I am growing very very fond of your writings. . :) .
cool! thank you, susan... you'll find a number of my poems have john 3 as subtext. we can't see the wind, we can't see air, but we can see their effects. likewise we see the spirit's effects in our own hearts, in the world. and we know who is the source of all love. -glen
Put the Gray morning air under water and see how real it is! We keep our eyes on the things unseen. For the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are everlasting.
strange, yes? , since we recognize it, that others can see no evidence of God around them. thinking of such things my mind often goes back to jesus' conversation with nicodemus. -glen
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
The one unseen can bend, or even break the one seen. Existential metaphor.
hey, smoky! it's fascinating to me what we're told about the nature of the real, that most of what we perceive as solid is space. and God, who is spirit and invisible, created everything. this suggests that we empiricists and pragmatists, sane as we think ourselves, are deluded—constantly—about the nature of the real. it's a head scratcher. thanks for commenting. -glen