Selves Are Quite the Opposite of Souls

March 17, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day, which is celebrated today, March 17^th.

Today’s poem is from the point of view of St. Patrick about the difference between selves and souls.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Selves are quite the opposite of souls,

As what might change is never what must be.

In one we find pure light; the other, coals,

Now burning, now burned out, now memory.

The self is something that can grow and change,

Perhaps love virtue, perhaps descend to sin,

Alive to faith or innerly estranged,

The lonely witness to what one has been.

Remember that the soul is also you,

Is what is, which is eternal love,

Called to love by love you know is true,

Knowing what sheer grace might through you move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/selves.html. For more poems for St. Patrick’s Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/stpatricksdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

March 12: Self Becomes Less Self the More Self-Served

March 13: Seriously, Nothing Would Surprise Me

March 14: Sing of Ireland, That Salad Bowl

March 15: Sing of the Home That You Have Never Seen

March 16: Some Would Satisfy Their Utmost Longings

March 17: Selves Are Quite the Opposite of Souls