Showing posts with label 2 October 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2 October 2010. Show all posts

Saturday, October 2, 2010

MOISTURE PSALM

MOISTURE PSALM

Rain, speckling down in strings,
Unspotted overwhelms –
A liquid stream of word refrains –
Extraordinary realms.

A fragment of refreshing brooks –
Precipitations’s sea –
As drop by bead the Providence
Cleans window panes for me.

(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)

COMPOSITION PSALM

COMPOSITION PSALM

Ingredients for mastery:
Energy – Control – Grace –
As if the Mind were sheet of ice –
As if the Brain had skates.

The Energy means Detail – Power –
The strokes of brilliancy –
Control means order – discipline –
Practice – proficiency.

The Grace means smoothness – balancing –
Originality –
The quality of edges cut
In figured vibrancy.

(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)

UPGRADE PSALM

UPGRADE PSALM (to Elder Christofferson)

Honor has a quiet footstep –
Valor has a modest voice –
Honesty has earnest motives:
Decency in every choice.

Plain and precious consecration
Has a simple recipe:
“Purity – exertion – service –
Self-respect – integrity.”

(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)