Richard Skinner is a
poem that I have great fondness for and he offers us here a joyous
little book.
His starting point
is the 13th Century mystic Meister Eckhart – but other
than the short introduction Skinner provides here I know nothing of
Eckhart, but that didn't stop my enjoyment of these poems.
Each is an
encounter, between Eckhart and the world around him, and sometimes
God. It is a playful God, the one who can't help but answer a
question with a question, who pops up when you are not seeking him,
who is absent when you are...
The poems
standalone, but also run together, with a theme flowing across two,
three, four.
A couple of examples
You want to see
me?
Then look deep
Into your soul
Doing as he is
told
Meister Eckhart
looks deep
And deeper still
Nothing here!
He exclaims
Quite so!
Nothing answers
And
A game
Of hide-and-seek
God is Cunningly
concealed
Meister Eckhart
is
At a loss
God deliberately
Clears his throat
And
Another year
gone!
Another year
older!
Meister Eckhart
sighs
Not so! Not so!
I'm as young as
ever!
His soul replies
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