Thanks Gerald, a thoughtful take on that. I simply noted that Lowery
got through, & Alexander bored me. Despite the fact that I usually
dont think much of rhyming verse, but he wasnt rhyming verse, he was
singing, praising, getting it on. She was hardly even there,
especially in her language....
Doug
On 20-Jan-09, at 12:30 PM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> Spiritual Life: Poetry and prayer: Parallels of invocationMuch the
> way that, say, Lorenzo Thomas' work is, I must say Rev. Dr. Joseph
> E. Lowery's Benediction was more poetry than Alexander delivered,
> proving in full that POETRY SPEAKS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE akin to
> prayer. The benediction, like authentic poetry, was an activity. It
> activated.
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