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Helo everyone - while i am stuck at home with a bad throat (again!!!) i thought i would share this poem with you all. I found it last year in a book published just after the first world war called Soldier Poets, long since out of print. It is by Wilfred J Halliday (bet no one remembers him now!)
It is called The Gleam and i think it is very moving one of my favourite poems.

THE GLEAM.
I See, I feel, I sometimes know
And penetrate the soul of things.
I've sipped of streams that sometimes flow
From mystic, unimagined things.

For one brief moment have I strayed
In pastures clothed in sparkling dew,
And fed on fruits the gods have laid
Of wondrous taste and goodly hue.

Heaven judge my soul by that brief bliss
And pity me that I am lost
So oft in clay, and seem to miss
The path that beckoning gleam has crossed.


I think everyone has the experience of getting lost in that clay at some time or other,be it through work or home life or some experience they are going through. But  thankfully God is always there waiting for us if only we look for him and more importantly listen.
Love Chris (England)

CHRIS thank you very much for this very good poem
i love poems
Ria

Thanks Chris for sharing that poem. very touching