Lenten Sonnet | February 26, 2018—Andrew Peterson

"Again I learn what I forgot: that winter cannot hold forever"

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This poem is part of a series of sonnets for Lent and Easter.

Lenten Sonnet | February 26, 2018

by Andrew Peterson

The sun is rising sooner now, the light
Encroaching on the dark with every turn
The planet makes. It dances in the night
Among the moon and stars. Again I learn
What I forgot: that winter cannot hold
Forever, not with all the fire that bends
Across the airless reaches—miles untold
Of nothing, nothing, nothing—to the winds
Of Tennessee the warmth that wakes the trees.
The winter cannot hold. Today I knelt
Beside the bushes where the berries grow
And felt the sun upon my neck, I felt
The light seep in and knew what angels know:
That God is coming slowly like the spring.
The universe will know the quickening.

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