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Song for Nobody

Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton poetry, Christian, Christian poetry, Catholic poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Thomas Merton
(1915 - 1968) Timeline

Original Language
English
Christian : Catholic
20th Century

A yellow flower
(Light and spirit)
Sings by itself
For nobody.

A golden spirit
(Light and emptiness)
Sings without a word
By itself.

Let no one touch this gentle sun
In whose dark eye
Someone is awake.

(No light, no gold, no name, no color
And no thought:
O, wide awake!)

A golden heaven
Sings by itself
A song to nobody.

 

 

-- from Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton

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/ Photo by ishrona /

Themes

  Awakening
  Garden
  Light
  Lotus
  Rose


Recommended Books


The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton
Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton
The Strange Islands: Poems by Thomas Merton, by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton Monk & Poet: A Critical Study, by George Woodcock
A Thomas Merton Reader, by Thomas Merton / Edited by Thomas P. McDonnell

 

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