Where does worship end and poetry begin? or poetry end and worship begin? How many Friends have tried to settle themselves in worship by remembering favorite poems or verses from the Bible? And how many Friends have written poems as the result of a particularly good, or even a bad, meeting for worship? I have found myself groping for a message in meeting, achieving only a half-baked idea to which I have clung, and at some later date it has written itself into a poem. The experience of worship, or the experience of trying to worship--the former is all too rare an achievement--and the experience of writing a poem can complement each other.
Where does worship end and poetry begin? or poetry end and worship begin? How many Friends have tried to settle themselves in worship by remembering favorite poems or verses from the Bible? And how many Friends have written poems as the result of a particularly good, or even a bad, meeting for worship? I have found myself groping for a message in meeting, achieving only a half-baked idea to which I have clung, and at some later date it has written itself into a poem. The experience of worship, or the experience of trying to worship--the former is all too rare an achievement--and the experience of writing a poem can complement each other.
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