Experimental Poetry
*Emblem
Poem
The Church
Wall
Motto: 'living
stones'
Look there, do
you see the wall of red brick
each upon the other:
leans with great care.
One joined
evenly next to the other
bonded together in
equality:
Participating in their purposes
combining, each their
strengths
the load to share:
Weathered with the forms of life on its face
enduring through
eternity:
*This emblem poem
WAS inspired by the English poet George Herbert's (1593-1633)
The Crurch-Floore. An emblem poem acts as an explanation of a
picture in a symbolic or allegoric way (not unlike a parable).
It is a 'crude' picture of an everyday object. Underneath the
picture is a motto, followed by the poem (a 16th century English
Haiga!!)
