Lovely, Andrew....
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Frank Parker
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From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:14 PM
Subject: Religion
> Here's the last poem in a sequence called An Uneasy Faith from my book
> Mother Waits For Father Late (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992) -
>
> MIRROR
>
> I swim in a mirror
> praying it won't break
>
> Praying in a mirror
> God reflects on Himself
>
> Reflecting on God
> I swim in a prayer
>
>
> I had written a number of secular angel poems before this and challenged
> myself to write down what I truly believed. I grew up Catholic, went to a
> Jesuit college until I was 17, then went into a kind of paperback Zen
> Buddhism phase. Now, many moons later, I still like that poem.
>
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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