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Poems

Petals*

From the May 1982 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Petals?

Just some
flowery phrasing
I said
(with a grin
toward my own
phrasing)
until
I gave thought.

Like arms of love
that shield and steady
until we are ready
to show dominion,
so petals
are understood
in unfoldment
as blossom
appearing.

And I thought
of healing activity:
it is an awakening,
an unleaving,
understanding divine Love's
arms,
eternally open,
saying,
"Here you are!"
It is
God's holy purpose
appearing.

*See Science and Health 506: 18-21.

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