This sonnet, about one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, is from Malcom Guite's anthology 'The Singing Bowl,' published by Canterbury Press.
From 'Beer and Beowulf' to the seven heavens,
Whose music you conduct from sphere to sphere,
You are our portal to those hidden havens
Whence we return to bless our being here.
Scribe of the Kingdom, keeper of the door
Which opens on all we might have lost,
Ward of a word-hoard in the deep hearts core
Telling the tale of love from first to last.
Generous, capacious, open, free,
Your wardrobe-mind has furnished us with worlds
Through which to travel, when we learn to see
Along the beam, and hear at last the heralds,
Sounding their summons, through the stars that sing,
Whose call at sunrise brings us to our King.
Comments