DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

Last week the leader of our writers’ group gave each one of us a half circle of glass and told us to write about it. It is about one half inch round and a quarter inch high at its highest point.

This week we all shared what we had written. We all had different perspectives about it. A lady who is writing a children’s story saw it as a pair of spectacles for her main frog character. Another saw it as a creator of rainbows. To another it was a raindrop on a leaf. I saw it as follows:

HALF MARBLE

Poor, pure half marble lying there,
You cause me to stop and stare.
Broken in half you cannot roll,
A nasty chip did take its toll.

You are so pure I see through you,
It helps me know what you can do.
I hold you up close to my eye,
Your purpose is to magnify!

Reminds me of a maiden fair,
Who in joy loudly did declare,
"My soul doth magnify the Lord."
Her Son by all will be adored!

A lens my dear half marble is,
You magnify all that is His.
I hold you up against His Word,
It tells the sweetest story heard.

The truth becomes so clear to me,
It fills my soul with joy and glee.
And so with Mary, much adored,
My soul doth magnify my Lord.

Don E. Cunningham, Author/poet ©4/3/2008 142 words.