La Pieta: A Villanelle for Good Friday, 2018#LaPieta #Easter #GoodFriday #OurLady #JesusChrist
- Apr 3
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La Pietà: A Villanelle for Good Friday, 2018
By Anne Hendricks, M.Ed. and Edited by John T. Hendricks, Ph.D.
(In Style of Dylan Thomas)
The marble breathes a mother’s heavy grace,
To hold the silent Word upon her knee.
The light of Easter hides its morning face.
No lines of anguish mar his quiet face,
From every debt of soul and flesh set free.
The marble breathes a mother’s heavy grace.
She keeps her station in this hollow space,
A monument to love’s dark decree.
The light of Easter hides its morning face.
Her hand extends to show the world’s disgrace,
The price of grace for all the eyes to see.
The marble breathes a mother’s heavy grace.
The scars of earth no heaven can erase,
Bent low beneath the weight of Calvary.
The light of Easter hides its morning face.
A bitter cup that time cannot replace,
The Son returns to her, his sanctuary.
The marble breathes a mother’s heavy grace;
The light of Easter hides its morning face.
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