The View from the Core: Poetry 02/11/02

Core: noun, the most important part of a thing, the essence; from the Latin cor, meaning heart.

		Sunrise

		(November 8, 1988) Fire, gentle fire: dawn kindling day. Pink sunshafts in ranks escape through the widening gap between the silhouette of mornward hills and the rolling rills of graysmoke clouds drawing back as the day rises from obscurity. Nightward I look, where the river foots an arc of pink through moist— there! it multiplies to rainbow, the sun winning ascendancy: this day’s birth, last night’s destiny.

		E. L. Core

		© ELC 1988

		Triad

		From the Silence of Time, Time’s Silence borrow. In the heart of To-day is the word of To-morrow. The Builders of Joy are the Children of Sorrow.

		William Sharp (1856-1902)
		Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse p. 400

Cor ad cor loquitur — J. H. Newman — “Heart speaks to heart”