A Book Review

May I make you a recommendation? 

For a text most elegant and superb, 

By the illustrious, G.K. Chesterton, 

In my mind, a master of written word.

Rarely in life, has a book besotted

Me so, from the very first page twas True

That it would be oh most favorited,

I’d be remiss not to share it with you. 

Tis a slim volume, but full of wonder, 

 Beauty and Goodness are it’s golden crown,

It forms the soul, yet purrs with the thunder 

Of the voice of Christendom from all around. 

This book, possesses power to revive 

And does remind us we are Manalive. 

 

Read It. 

The Telling Pause

Indulge with a poem or two today,

Take note of bright white flags in the wind, 

And consider the rose’s wild climbing play,

While through the blossoms the bees briskly wind.

Excuse the intrusion upon labor, 

As myth and fancy spring into the world, 

With all the sharp sweetness of a sabre,

And with the deep magic thoroughly whorled. 

Pardon the soul for old contemplations,

Questions, still nagging, need true answers, and

Hours lost in mindful meditations

Are, perhaps, hours better found than planned.

Forgive the pause, turn again to the breach,

But be strengthened and revitalized, each.