Dragonflies and Kingfishers: Leithart on poetry

Monday, October 27, 2014

On why we write animal poems, actually.

I like it. Here you go.

Melissa JoyOctober 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM
I just wanted to tell you here, in this space, today, now ~ I am thankful for YOU, Roberta Johanna. I love the friendship we have. Our friendship is like poetry in its own way. And you're in my prayers this morning.
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As Kingfishers Catch Fire

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;

Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -

Christ - for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the father through the features of men's faces.

Dragonflies and Kingfishers