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Topic: Era (02/03/11)
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TITLE: nearly, nearly faded gone | Previous Challenge Entry
By Jim McWhinnie
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a son of ivy-covered traditions
that have climbed the grey stoned walls of timeless cathedrals,
ageless cathedrals,
caverns filled with the echoes of noble immortality
thunderous words of marble doctrines floating like mist
among the ghostly whispered prayers
of saints and sinners long gone to dusty tombs
in eternal wait for the coming hallelujahs.
I am a child of Christendom,
the last of a long grey line of hallowed souls
that felt the call of the belfry carillon,
a beckoning to tend the ancient flame against the winds of mortal change,
to hold fast the legacy bestowed
and to never let it go until
until lifted from our falling hands when our course has spent its steam.
I am a child of Christendom,
birthed to Mother Church in the shaded warmth of stained glass filtered light,
and in the fragrance of candle smoke
that has gathered in the lofty timbers
before rising into the heavenly places that reside beyond the highest spire,
leaving us behind in these earthly places
to march on to the cadence of the muffled drums,
toward the music of the Black Watch piper
who awaits us all
further down the pilgrim’s road.
I am a child of Christendom
now grown old and bent and grey,
and I fear the world that I have always known
is nearly, nearly faded, nearly faded gone away.
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Congratulations on your placement!
Congratulations on your 1st place award.
Huge congratulations, Jim!!!!
With love, Deb (Challenge Coordinator)