Poetry in Motion

This is something I found while rummaging around in my blog today. I think I wrote it sometime in February, and I'm not sure why I never posted it. Hopefully someone enjoys it.

When your reading T.S. Eliot, you can read word by word and find the most accurate definitions of the words used and logically and systematically define every single one of his works and what was exactly intended. And any English major or fan of his works would say you massacred it... because you probably did. Poetry is an art form that surpases many barriers that the english language has created. There is a flow, there is a feeling, there is so much more than you could define in a dictionary (or concordance). A poem might say one thing to one person, and another to the next. Poetry isn't only about sending a message like "Love is fleeting" or "Joy conquers", but so much of what makes poetry beautiful is that it reveals something about human nature in yourself. As you peel the words away, you start to see your humanity, your frailty, your pain.

Even the simplest person can walk into the Sistene Chapel and be amazed by the wonder of the massive paintings across the ceiling; Yet someone else who studied Michelangelo and dug deeper could come to appreciate this art in a whole new way if they knew that he had spent four years of his life on his back, day and night, painting to see this vision come to life. How much does a simple little fact like that reveal about his determination and passion?

Have you ever considered what God was feeling when he was wrestling with the isrealites in the desert? Did you ever stop to think what message God hoped would be sent when he gave us the imagery of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? There is a real person behind the words when Eliot says "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky"; There is a loving God crying out for a broken and lost people when he gave us his word.

“For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God” --