By Carolyn Pinet
O Brave New World...
Here comes the Great Experiment,
and it's Time with Children at Pilgrim.
I watch them peer through toy specs
to examine the space near the altar,
consider the color of the carpet,
the petals of a bright flower,
a little boy's bony knees -
and somehow it all slots together
to fashion a new uncharted whole.
We nod and laugh along with them
and we grapple with fresh meaning.
Here love holds sway:
yes, it's love we find all around,
almost fall, but it could be summer -
who knows exactly where we are
on this grand, zigzagging route?
But the sun shines and, later at the cafe,
a thieving magpie calls to me,
avid for one more delectable crumb.
Is this a day like any other? -
perhaps, perhaps it is.
But listen, it could be a New Day:
amid the tempest of life
let's navigate wind and weather
over foamy turquoise waves,
let's launch and make off together.
Pilgrim CC, September 17, 2023