Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Donal Mahoney- A Poem

 
Sunflowers 

No one has to teach a field
of sunflowers how to worship.
Before dawn in high summer

their necks are bent 
in silent prayer like monks.
But as the sun comes up 

sunflowers rise as well. 
At noon they adore the sun 
the way monks in pews  

adore the Host at elevation.
Listen and you may hear  
sunflowers sing Alleluia!

Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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