Poetry: Poetry and Religion
Murray, Les
Les Murray Poetry and Religion Religions are poems. They concert our daylight and dreaming mind, our emotions, instinct, breath and native gesture into the only whole thinking: poetry....
...Caught as in a mirror that he attracted, being in the world as poetry is in the poem, a law against its closure...
...From TheDaylighr Moon...
...It is the same mirror: mobile, glancing, we call it poetry, fixed centrally, we call it a religion, and God is the poetry caught in any religion, caught, not imprisoned...
...There'll always be religion around while there is poetry or a lack of it...
...1988 by Les Murray...
...like any poem, it must be inexhaustible and complete with turns where we ask Now why did the poet do that...
...Reprinted by permission of Persea Books, Inc...
...Full religion is the large poem in loving repetition...
...A poem, compared with an arrayed religion, may be like a soldier's one short marriage night to die and live by...
...Both are given, and intermittent, as the action of those binds-crested pigeon, rosella parrot who fly with wings shut, then beating, and again shut...
...you can't poe one either...
...Nothing's said till it's dreamed out in words and nothing's true that figures in words only...
...Commonweal 22 May 1992: 11...
...You can't pray a lie, said Huckleberry Finn...
...But that is a small religion...
...Les Murray Poetry and Religion Religions are poems...
Vol. 119 • May 1992 • No. 10
