URL: http://www.poetryvisualized.com/media/2661/Waiting_engagement_in_Contemplation/

Summary:
Religious and spiritual poem: Musical sound reminding the listener of contemplation, an experience... This is a more unusual poem, hopefully worthwhile. I wrote it more than five years ago, in 2000. It speaks of the melding of music in the cathedral and the experience of contemplative prayer. There is an opening up, an ascending in hearing the music, just as there is in contemplative prayer. My way into contemplative prayer is by centering prayer. I do so in quiet, no music. So why this poem about music and prayer? As I say, the experience is similar in regards to a feeling of God's presence.

Category: Video-Audio

Tags: Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, contemplation, Christ, Jan Gabarek, Hilliard Ensemble