<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear David, <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Thank you for the beauty in your poems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With gratitude to you,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Isobel Bishop <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
Isobel and Jim Bishop<br class=""><a href="mailto:isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au" class="">isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Aug 2022, at 5:44 am, David Dunn via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Two new, old poems.</font><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><font size="2" class="">David</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">Becoming</font></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">As I watched the stars fall from the sky, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">I knew instantly that heaven was gone forever. </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Before dawn, when it had become clear </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">that far is near and beyond is within, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">I was embraced by a Holy Mystery </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">the filled me with awe, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">took my breath away, </font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">and opened the floodgates of my heart. </font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Now when I listen to the silence, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">and look past the brilliance of the sun, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">trying to imagine before the beginning </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">and beyond the edge of everything, </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">I am certain that the becoming </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">we were called to be before time began </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">will be fulfilled in us today.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class=""><font size="2" class="">Natural Miracles</font></b></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Our struggle to become ourselves is an act of creation.</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Our engagement in life energizes human evolution.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Our care for one another expands the universe.</font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">It is a natural miracle that </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">Being evokes tears of gratitude,</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">silence offers a warm embrace</font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font size="2" class="">and darkness invites us to music and dance.</font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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