MANY thanks to Lesley Duncan for drawing our attention to Norman MacCaig's beautiful poem, Explicit Snow (Poem of the Day, The Herald, January 15).
MANY thanks to Lesley Duncan for drawing our attention to Norman MacCaig's beautiful poem, Explicit Snow (Poem of the Day, The Herald, January 15).
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In discerning the difference between rain and snow, the poet says that the latter comes "from a place we feel we could go to". This inner longing and attraction to something timelessly familiar and yet mysterious, reminded me of a line in the best Hebrew poem I know, Job 38.
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When poetry and theology meet
MANY thanks to Lesley Duncan for drawing our attention to Norman MacCaig's beautiful poem, Explicit Snow (Poem of the Day, The Herald, January 15).
In discerning the difference between rain and snow, the poet says that the latter comes "from a place we feel we could go to". This inner longing and attraction to something timelessly familiar and yet mysterious, reminded me of a line in the best Hebrew poem I know, Job 38.
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