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Book: The Weather of the Heart: Selected Poems
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  1. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    Pain is a partner I did not request;This is a dance I did not ask to join;whirled in a waltz when I would stop and rest,Jolted and jerked, I ache in bone and loin.Pain strives to hold me close in his embrace;If I resist and try to pull awayHis grasp grows tighter; closer comes his face;hotter his breath. If he is here to stayThen must I learn to dance this painful dance,Move to its rhythm, keep my lagging feetIn time with his. Thus have I a chanceTo work with pain, and so may pain defeat.Pain is my partner. If I dance with painThen may this wedlock be not loss but gain.
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  2. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    When will you comeand how will you comeand will we be ready
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  3. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    ...And you, behind the footlight's lure,Kissing an actress on the stage,Will leave her presence there, I'm sure,As I my people on the page.And yet - I love you, darling, yetI sat with someone at a tableAnd gloried in our minds that metAs sometimes strangers' minds are ableTo leap the bounds of times and spacesAnd find, in sharing wine and breadAnd light in one another's facesAnd in the words that each has saidAn intercourse so intimate It shook me deeply, to the core.I said good-night, for it was late;We parted at my hotel doorAnd I went in, turned down the bedAnd took my bath and thought of you...
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  4. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    MosesCome. When?Now. This way. I will guide you. Wait! Not so fast.Hurry. You. I said you. Who am I?Certainly I will be with thee. Is nothing, then, what it is? I had rather the rod had stayed a rod and not become a serpent.Come. Quickly. While the blast of my breath opens the sea. Stop. I'm thirsty.Drink water from this rock. But the rock moves on before us.Go with it and drink. I'm tired. Can't you stop for a while?You have already tarried too long. But if I am to follow you I must know your name.I will be that I will be. You have set the mountain on fire.Come. Climb. I will be lost in the terror of your cloud.You are stiff-necked and of a stiff-necked people. YOUR poeple, Lord,Indubitably. Your wrath waxes hot. I burn.Thus to become great. Show me, then, they glory.No man may see my face and live. But I will cover you with my hand while I pass by. My people turn away and cry because the skin of my face shinesDid you not expect this? I cannot enter the tent of the congregation while your cloud covers it and your glory fills the tabernacle. Look. It moves before us again. Can you not stay still?Come. Follow. But this river is death. The waters are dark and deep.Swim. Now will I see your face? Where are you taking me now?Up the mountain with me before I die. But deathbursts into light. The death iswhat it will be. These men: they want to keep us here in three tabernacles. But the cloud moves. The water springs from a rock that journeys on.You are contained in me. But how can we contain you in ark or tabernacle orYou cannot. Where, then?In your heart. Come. Still?I will be with thee. Who am I?You are that I will be. Come.
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  5. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    ...O God,here, as so often, I cannot help.Let me not forget she is your childand your concern makes mine as nothing.
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  6. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    Fore WordPoetry and prayer are synonymous in my life, and because both are a gift, which I accept with joy and sometimes pain, I seldom know whether I have served the gift well or ill. But perhaps that doesn't really matter; the important thing is to be willing - to want to serve the gift whenever it comes, either as verse or prayer...My heart's climate is not constant; I doubt if anyone's is. My inner weather shifts with the days. But much sunshine has shone on me through the sharing and giving and receiving. And so I am taught to pray. And so I am taught to be.
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  7. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    Why, my Lord, did you have to bringMe down from the safety of my hillInto the danger of your will?" {David p. 34}
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  8. Madeleine L'Engle _ The Weather of the Heart:

    The winter is cold, is cold.All's spent in keeping warm.Has joy been frozen, too?I blow upon my handsStiff from the biting wind.My heart beats slow, beats slow.What has become of joy?If joy's gone from my heartThen it is closed to YouWho made it, gave it life...Elusive, evasive, peace comesOnly when it's not sought.Help me forget the coldThat grips the grasping world...
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