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Wonder-wovenA daily podcast featuring poems of beauty for a w Author: S. M. Feir
Wonder-woven is a podcast that features poetry of beauty and wonder for a weary world. smfeir.substack.com Language: en Genres: Arts, Religion & Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Where Lilies Lie
Wednesday, 10 December, 2025
At last a new poem! The Good Samaritan is in here somewhere, and as for the lilies, I like lilies. I like the sound of the word and it just seems to work. That’s the image that started the poem coming. Also as ever, the ‘me’ in the poem is me and also humanity in relation to Christ. Where Lilies LieAh! Lead me, Lord, where lilies lieLike damask-dawn light dimly echoingThe ecstasy of Your eternal and deifying day,Like bridal lace chasing the uncharted bordersBetween time’s changing chance and true being’s boundless becoming,Breaking the charm of the merely charnelThat immortality might at last drown death in real life!I ask this now sincerely, Sir,And yet I know my feet will falter,In fact, are faltering now,Though from my fallen state I call for aidAnd seek some salve which I alone can never buy,Because the road has robbed my purse of all its coin.Yet You have trod these weary ways beforeAnd know the lilies and what lies beyond.Oh, come and find me, bind my wounds,And let me walk, Your blessed and broken hand in mine,To where lives the deepest of delightAs my hurts are made holy thingsFor Paradise to ponder and to praise.Thanks for listening to Wonder-woven, a poetry podcast from Reveries and Ramblings! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit smfeir.substack.com
