The DVerse Poetics prompt is about paradoxes today. Please follow the link to read other poets’ submissions and lovely examples of paradoxes in poetry. One of the options we were given is to build a poem around one of the given lines, and I am choosing the line, “I am the mother of sorrows; I am the ender of grief;” from the poem “The Paradox” by Paul Dunbar. The first thing I thought of was Our Lady of Sorrows:
The sword imagery comes from Luke 2:35, and there are traditionally seven sorrows of Our Lady, hence the seven swords.
This is also linked with FOWC: Glow.
This lowly maiden has a glow
Of holiness, gifted from on high
Has joy in midst of many sorrows,
Has sung her God a lullaby.
This lowly maiden, mantle blue,
Mother made perfect by her Son,
Had faith so strong, a faith which drew
Her to the heights, this favored one.
am glad you found your own imagery for the Dunbar lines – a gently lyrical piece with these lines especially
“Has joy in midst of many sorrows,
Has sung her God a lullaby.”
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So beautiful.
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Lovely application on the prompt theme! 🙂
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Wonderful use of the sorrow… I often think that only through tears you can find joy
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This is very moving RW.
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Beautiful! I believe her greatest sorrow was watching her Son suffer for humanity and so many of us, He suffered for in vain. That must have been hard on her.
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A beautiful ode to Mary.
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This is so evocative! 💝💝
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