There Is No Greater Miracle than This

January 1, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is pregnancy and childbirth, in honor of the birth of a new year.

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

A poem comparing the birth of a child to the miracle of Creation:

There is no greater miracle than this:

The quickening of flesh within the womb,

Summoning an angel to a kiss.

Ay, me! Again the gist of Genesis:

The bolt of light darts vast against the gloom!

There is no greater miracle than this.

Ay, me! Again the voice of the abyss,

Tailoring the temple to the tomb,

Summoning an angel to a kiss.

The paradox defies analysis:

Soul from sand, sanctity from spume.

There is no greater miracle than this.

Nor ought one such absurdity dismiss:

Infinity confined to one small room,

Summoning an angel to a kiss.

Life walks upon a sea of nothingness,

Eternal in the beauty of its bloom.

There is no greater miracle than this:

Summoning an angel to a kiss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Pregnancy and Childbirth

12/30: Creation Is the Proper Form of Love

12/31: Evidence of Paradise

1/1: There Is No Greater Miracle than This