Poems Part 2
Posted on July 17, 2013 in Uncategorized
I am on vacation with my family this week, so in my place please enjoy poems from my friend Kirk! I am thankful for his gift of words, and hope they bless and inspire you.
I will include that poem first then my sequel will follow.
By the Babe Unborn
by G.K. Chesterton
If trees were tall and grasses short,
As in some crazy tale,
If here and there a sea were blue
Beyond the breaking pale,
If a fixed fire hung in the air
To warm me one day through,
If deep green hair grew on great hills,
I know what I should do.
In dark I lie; dreaming that there
Are great eyes cold or kind,
And twisted streets and silent doors,
And living men behind.
Let storm clouds come: better an hour,
And leave to weep and fight,
Than all the ages I have ruled
The empires of the night.
I think that if they gave me leave
Within the world to stand,
I would be good through all the day
I spent in fairyland.
They should not hear a word from me
Of selfishness or scorn,
If only I could find the door,
If only I were born.
Heaven to Our Earth Ears
By Kirk Manton
Heaven is to our earth ears
As our world to the unborn appears.
A crazy tale, a fairyland,
A dream, a myth, an outstretched hand.
If this be so then we’re no fools,
We ones who dream outside the rules.
To many, heaven seems a simpleton’s wish,
A childhood dream to be dismissed.
Yet our world’s real as we all know,
Making wise the unborn child who thinks it so.
And as the child who longs for birth,
We too are restless in our womb of earth.
We yearn for somewhere beyond and free,
We know, just outside is eternity.
Kirk’s passion has always been a unique mix of creative design and expression plus nerdish detailed administrative management in the fierce pursuit of serving others, especially his family. Family for Kirk means blessed husband and father of 4 – as he says, “one of each kind” – birth daughter, step daughter, goddaughter and adopted son.
Kirk Manton is the Director of Production Service at Trinity Fellowship in Amarillo Texas and a little bit more. Born in Ohio (1960), raised in California, lived in Amarillo since 2001. His professional career has included: Youth Minister, Disneyland Entertainment Specialist, Freelance Film Gaffer and, yes, “Key Grip”, Civic Center Production Manager, and now, in addition to his professional role at Trinity, he is the volunteer Event Production Manager of the non-profit, C.S. Lewis Foundation.
Kirk’s life has been quite a unique journey – from surf city to Hollywood, from prison to Crystal Cathedral, foster kids, adoption, celebrities, brain tumors, despair to redemptive joy! If you are brave enough and have an hour or so to spare, you can ask him to share his story and you’ll walk away saying, “I had no idea….” and “God is so good.”And out of all this life experience he writes…..
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A book of poems and essays is coming soon.
