FORESHADOW
  • Home
  • Magazine
    • Contents
    • Foresight
  • Podcast
  • Resources
  • About
    • People
    • Works
    • Support Us

Beginning & Beginning

16/4/2023

3 Comments

 
By D. S. Martin

After John Donne's 'Death's Duel'

Can we account for our

becoming   our souls breathed  

into tiny bodies   by divine breath?

Did God weave soul   into the fabric
of your embryo   to protect it
from being broken?

Each response from your tongue
when spoken   has its beginning
on your exhaled breath

Every breath   rising from our lungs
is a gift   we lift  
along with every song we're singing

Though soul is far more  
than the breath we breathe  
& spirit far more than the soul

we receive all three   thankfully  
each an intricate part
of the whole

Yet   when Christ faced death
& released   unseen   all three 
into the Father's hands

(spirit   soul   & final breath)
he knew that's where
they'd always been

D.S. Martin is Poet-in-Residence at McMaster Divinity College, and Series Editor for the Poiema Poetry Series from Cascade Books. He has written five poetry collections including Angelicus (2021), Ampersand (2018) and Conspiracy of Light: Poems Inspired by the Legacy of C. S. Lewis (2013). He and his wife live in Brampton, Ontario; they have two adult sons.
3 Comments
Justin Anthony Thompson
22/4/2023 12:42:43 am

This prose was excellent.

Reply
Susan link
25/4/2023 07:30:57 pm

Beginning with questions, yes, I find myself reading on because I have those questions too. Love the turn in second to last tercet...and the final answering of the questions in simplicity. Truth. I am surprised by the comfort I felt in the end. A good surprise.

Reply
Rena ong link
11/12/2023 12:25:45 pm

A breathing poem, i was literally feeling my breaths reading this!’ A gift we lift’
This was a gift

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    Art
    Editorial
    Fiction
    Forethought
    Interview
    Music
    Non-fiction
    Photography
    Poetry
    Review

    RSS Feed

    Forecast

    Support Us

    Picture

    Archives

    February 2025
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020

Home
Magazine
Contents
Foresight
Podcast
Resources
About
People
Works
Support Us
Connect with Foreshadow
Support our work
© COPYRIGHT 2020–2025. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • Magazine
    • Contents
    • Foresight
  • Podcast
  • Resources
  • About
    • People
    • Works
    • Support Us