I love this poem. I read it several times every Advent. I read it when it isn’t Advent. I nearly have it memorized. I posted it last year during Advent, and if I still have this blog next year at this time then I will post it again.
But here it is now, and I hope you will read it.
It is True.
from spiralling ecstatically this
proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night
blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes
–gifted with every keener appetite
than mere unmiracle can quite appease–
humbly in their imagined bodies kneel
(over time space doom dream while floats the whole
perhapsless mystery of paradise)
mind without soul may blast some universe
to might have been,and stop ten thousand stars
but not one heartbeat of this child;nor shall
even prevail a million questionings
against the silence of his mother’s smile
–whose only secret all creation sings
e.e.cummings
