Religious and spiritual poem about God's embrace, one that offers the indirect attitude theological that God is present whether one knows it or not. The work also implies, in its simple, direct way, that God loves man and woman and his creation.
This explanation of this poem and its sister, No. 2, is posted with the text on "Peter Menkin blog": Today this Easter Wednesday something a little different. A poem posted twice, the same one. Each is a little different. The first is the newest version and incorporates a quotation from The Rule of Saint Benedict. The second version is not so much older than the first. It written just the day previous on Tuesday, another beautiful Spring day here in Northern California across the Golden Gate Bridge in the small city where I live. Note that in the second, the earlier of the two versions, there is a line about Christ and the Spirit in the blood giving life. Not so in the first one.
The poem speaks of divine love, the secret of the self, psyche, and of having an open heart to the spirit and Christ. These words appear in the poem written by aspiring poet Peter Menkin:
this divine love sustains life. More.
In the secret of the self, within the psyche,
we yearn for knowledge: recognition of existence,
Christ does feed us. More. The beyond calls...
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