Description Author: Shraddhavan Print Length: 80 pages Publisher: Auro e-Books Book format: PDF, ePub, Kindle Language: English Table of Contents Stars in the Soup Garden Fragments Early Ones Journeys A New Line in Hats Postscripts Book Sample Stars in the Soup and other poems The Clay Bird They say lord Jesus as a boy Found on the village street a little toy – A bird of clay. He took it in his hands of joy And breathing on it secretly Filled it with life and ecstasy So it took wing and eagerly Flew singing, singing, high and high – Lost in immensities of sky … And still its triumphant loving cry Was heard below in streets of mud By men of earth. O loving Lord, I offer you my human heart. It is not very wide nor very pure And all its depths are still obscure To me, though you with your clairvoyant eye Have plumbed perhaps its petty mystery. This struggling heart, oh purify – Let it be worthy of the flame It longs to bear, and of its name. Oh, take it in your hands of joy And breathe upon it secretly; Then will this little bird of clay Take wing and fly towards the Sun. …
