Glimpsed in Passing: Poems and Stories of Passion & Resurrection - Softcover

Mead, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184952310X ISBN 13: 9781849523103

Publisher: Wild Goose Publications, 2014

Synopsis

These poems come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment … a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture … The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.

It’s the way it’s always been:
to reach the sea, to stand
watching, waiting; to know
that nothing can be unravelled
to its core

but is like reflecting
where wild flowers
gathered in a vase, framed
by a shore cottage window
make of themselves
a sea-wide subject:
the beauty
of things together.

A blackbird sings
and the song echoes
in fragments of memory.

Joy Mead is a member of the Iona Community and the author of The One Loaf, Making Peace in Practice and Poetry, Where are the Altars?, Words and Wonderings and A Way of Knowing, all published by Wild Goose Publications. She has been involved in development education and justice and peace work and occasionally leads creative writing groups.

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About the Author

Joy Mead is a member of the Iona Community and the author of The One Loaf, Making Peace in Practice and Poetry, Where are the Altars?, Words and Wonderings and A Way of Knowing, all published by Wild Goose Publications. She has been involved in development education and justice and peace work and occasionally leads creative writing groups.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184952310X
• ISBN 13: 9781849523103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92