Joining with
the community that is Five Minute Friday with the lovely Lisa Jo Baker. We like to write, not for comments or traffic or anyone
else’s agenda. But for pure love of the written word. For joy at the sound of
syllables, sentences and paragraphs all strung together by the voice of the
speaker.
Five minutes on:
Jump
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Jump
(for my love) those Pointer Sisters shriek at us in their flared, spangly white, against insistent thumping soundtrack. That fop-haired English actor who wiggles
his hips and Dad-dances down the Downing Street stairs, seal-performing for all
the portraits of past important-leaders-of-the-land.
Jumping
long. Lengthily held world records, rarely broken. Beamon’s record of a two
feet increment in 1968 demonstrated in our small one-time village chapel. Take-off
where the preacher stood and landing in the middle of the road outside the door.
Armstrong
jumping from earth to moon in a rocket. He had the measure of what he was
seeing and the significance of history, coloured by Your eyes.
‘One small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind’
Yet
performances and big records are relatively insignificant to You, Lord
This
leaping like a disco machine to impress people whom people elevate to
importance. That distance of any jump, is but a baby-step.
You
who left Your father’s throne to walk alongside us.
Dancing
with those that everyone else overlooks.
One
small, but heavily weighted step that unleashes all this:
Grace and love like mighty rivers
Flowed incessant from above
And heaven’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love
No
jumping to taste kisses.
Undeservedly
leaving Your touch with us.
Coming over from Lisa-Jo's. Just beautiful... A wonderful way to start my morning - remembering undeserved kisses. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by - your comment has got me thinking of Eva Cassidy's Autumn Leaves now (good earworm!)
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you Kelly
DeleteThis is beautiful, Jo. I just had to stop and thank you for coming by my blog and leaving me that delightful comment. You are officially the very first person who has ever said they were a "fan" and it really touched my heart. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteOh you're welcome Genevieve. I do so love your writing & I feel the affinity from having been to some of those dark places too.
DeleteAlso joining you from Lisa-Jo's page. :) "No jumping to taste kisses." I like that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping in Jennifer - inspired by lyrics of the Pointer Sisters song
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ReplyDeleteLovely post.
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