by Cheryl Anne Hale
Illumed by rays of Sunday sun, cathedral windows of my summer garden raise my spirit in praise. Early light slants through petals and leaves beneath cerulean frescos, cross-hatched with clouds. Cardinal vines raise wine-red chalices to lips of bumblebees. Morning glories ascend, unfurling heavenly blues. In fragrant reverence, a choir of Angel’s trumpets bow like white-robed monks. Butterflies, on stained glass wings—too perfect and too miraculous for this world, flutter by in vows of silence. Hummingbirds probe honeysuckle’s luminous mysteries, then buzz heavenward like prayers. From sacred shade trees, cardinals carol bright hosannas while a wren tends her eggs in a potted petunia— and I mistake a cowbird’s call for dripping water. I hear a bell from the church down the street and wonder who first imagined how enough praise for all this magnificence could fit inside a building.
Cheryl Anne Hale is a lifelong resident of Connecticut, and Poet Laureate of Middletown, Connecticut since 2019. She began writing poetry late in life, having spent her younger years raising her seven children, and working to make ends meet.
This is beautiful! Truly heaven and earth are full of His glory.
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It feels like reference, reflection, awe. I was brought up as a Congregationalist and was always filled with such awe when entering a Catholic Church – not the service – always felt so dull and ordinary and distant and the forbidden wafers. but….. the building, the stained glass, the architecture always blew me away. Your imagery brings back to that beauty – natural and man-made.
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I spent most of my childhood in our church Holy Trinity in Pennsylvania. You put me right back there. Thank you!
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I spent most of my childhood in our church Holy Trinity in Pennsylvania. You put me right back there. Thank you!
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