Sandra Heska King

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Still Saturday: Mute

By

ROSE

 

 

Mute

Must we use words

For everything?

Can there not be

A silent, flaming

Leap of heart

Toward Thee?

~Elizabeth B. Rooney

as found in At the Still Point: A Literary Guide to Prayer in Ordinary Time, compiled by Sarah Arthur

 

ROSE AND DRAGONFLY

 

In the stillness,

Sandy

Sandra Heska King - Still Saturday

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Comments

  3. Patricia @ Pollywog Creek says

    Lovely. And I know this isn’t exactly what the poem means, but I remember when my children were little and talked incessantly and when I reached my breaking point I’d tell them that we had to stop talking for a while because I needed to rest my ears.

    Have a wonderful weekend, my beautiful friend. xoxox

  4. Sheila Kimball says

    Hello Sandy — I intended to post a comment with NO WORDS only my name info but the Big Computer said ERROR…what does IT know anyway? So…I agree…a silent flaming leap of heart … Yes! Blessings on your Saturday. Hugs!

  8. Constance Morrison says

    The poem reminded me of the disciples who met Jesus on the Emaus Road. “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” A flaming leap of the heart, although not very silent : )

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