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  1. CW: CW: Christian/religious poetry (not by me)

    This was recommended to me by my undergrad adviser (may not be the right term, I mean the prof that was grading me on my honors thesis in undergrad) a decade ago.

    I ended up not writing on it. I honestly struggled to understand it.

    It's still a little hard to understand, but I think I get it a lot more now in this stage of life.

    "Carrion Comfort" is a phrase that's been buzzing around my mind lately, for reasons I can't quite get into, but let's say I was thinking about how we as humans reach for lesser comforts when we're hurting.

    (I'm doing well, btw, don't worry ;)

    Carrion Comfort
    By Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
    Not untwist — slack they may be — these last strands of man
    In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
    Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
    But ah, but O thou terrible, why wouldst thou rude on me
    Thy wring-world right foot rock? lay a lionlimb against me? scan
    With darksome devouring eyes my bruisèd bones? and fan,
    O in turns of tempest, me heaped there; me frantic to avoid thee and flee?

       Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear.
    Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,
    Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, chéer.
    Cheer whom though? the hero whose heaven-handling flung me, fóot tród
    Me? or me that fought him? O which one? is it each one? That night, that year
    Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!) my God.

    #CarrionComfort #GerardManleyHopkins #Poetry #ChristianPoetry #ReligiousPoetry

  2. The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong
    Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame,
    Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came,
    Leaves yet the mind a mother of immortal song.
    Nine months she then, nay years, nine years she long
    Within her wears, bears, cares and moulds the same:
    The widow of an insight lost she lives, with aim
    Now known and hand at work now never wrong.
    Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
    I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
    O then if in my lagging lines you miss
    The roll, the rise, the carol, the creation,
    My winter world, that scarcely breathes that bliss
    Now, yields you, with some sighs, our explanation.

    -- Gerard Manley Hopkins, To R.B.

    en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_o.

    #TodaysPoem #GerardManleyHopkins #Poetry #WritersBlock

  3. LIVE, Dammit Bluesky Blog

    #YESquotes: #GerardManleyHopkins: the Major Works -
    "My own heart let me more have pity on; let
    Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
    Charitable; not live this tormented mind
    With this tormented mind tormenting yet."
    #SelfCompassion #HealingWords #MentalHealth #EmotionalResilience
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  4. LIVE, Dammit Bluesky Blog

    #YESquotes: #GerardManleyHopkins/ Major Works
    “Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise / You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile / Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size / At God knows when to God knows what…”
    Let joy grow where it will. #MentalHealth #LetGoToGrow bit.ly/3I8l9qz

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  5. Esk Enochian – Wildness 1, 2, 3 [Video]

    Digging up a year old track by ESK Enochian from the Manchester area which deserves attention. Wildness is a track in three parts detailing the entire history and evolution of the planet, from rocks getting eroded to sand

    britishhiphop.co.uk/downloads/

    #ESK #ESKEnochian #GerardManleyHopkins #HuwWahl #LakeDistrictNationalPark #SourGround #StoneGarden #TimDownie #Wildness
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  6. The Wreck of the Deutschland, verse 1, Gerard Manley Hopkins

    “Thou mastering me
    God! giver of breath and bread;
    World's strand, sway of the sea;
    Lord of living and dead;
    Thou hast bound bones & veins in me, fastened me flesh,
    And after it almost unmade, what with dread,
    Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh?
    Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.”

    #TheWreckOfTheDeutschland #GerardManleyHopkins #poetry #alliteration