URL: http://www.poetryvisualized.com/media/2785/Unfolding_in_Silence_and_Sound_by_Peter_Menkin/

Summary:
Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. These notes from Peter Menkin blog: Friday, August 04, 2006

Poem about Lent unfolding during the season...

Each Lent has been different. This year my penitential practices are light. A friend of mine, who is in her eighties, suggests a light Lent. It is her opinion that various things will come to mind during the season. I think she is right. For my reflection, I am reading "Lent with Evelyn Underhill" edited by G.P. Mellick Belshaw (publisher, Morehouse Publishing).

This is a second edition, not the first. In one reading, not typical of most of them, she names the "Seven Roads to Hell": Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, Lust. These are enough to think about for that one day's exercise.

This poem is almost four years old, and I post it here on this blog to give it an opportunity to express some of my temperament, and perhaps the temperament of others, during this season. It is about how thinking and feeling about matters in Lent can unfold during the Lenten season. It is also about how a person can find him or herself unfolding, as did I that year.

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Tags: Lent, unfolding, Christ, sin, Christian, sound, contemplation, spirituality, Trinity