Wow!! A lot goes into your poem. Thanks for taking time to explain. I will study again. If you don’t mind, I like to read another of your poems and you can explain it to me. you and I are on the same page as you said not to think of audience or readers. I do express my own true feeling to the Lord, and just hope it touches one more soul as it does to mine.
Thanks,
Well, that’s my first and only “Holy Sonnet”.
Here’s a not very good one I wrote to a friend when her dog died. I hold with Lewis that some animals get to heaven. God ennobles us with his company, and the essence of divine nobility is to share (in the deepest sense.) So I think that the ‘saints’ can ennoble animals, and that animals can teach us about goodness.
One thing I learned was: Don’t try to rhyme with ‘-ation’ words; it sound weird.
Anyway, for what it’s worth:
They will tell you: The brutish beasts are less.
For, lacking mind and will and speculation,
They cannot share our high, exalted station,
That of thinkers, choosers, those who confess.
And so, they claim, as something more than guess,
That dogs cannot enjoy the exaltation
Of heaven, nor can have the expectation
Of honor, bliss, content, of things which bless.
They err. The “esse” of nobility,
Eludes them. The loving praise, the “Good boy!”
Confuse them. They think that humility
Abases. Blind, they miss the gift of joy,
Th’ ennobling, and the great tranquility,
Which makes a Prince of him some thought a toy.