A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

Wisdom From Shel – Alice

What does this poem mean to you?

ALICE

She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And up she grew so tall,
She ate from a plate called TASTE ME
And down she shrank so small
And so she changed, while other folks
Never tried nothin’ at all

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Jeromy Johnson
I live in Folsom, CA, with my wife, Jennifer, and three kids. I am surrounded by and cared for deeply by some great friends. Their love for me is truly a moonlit reflection of Papa's love, and for that, I am deeply blessed and grateful.

Comments

  • http://daughter0fzion.wordpress.com Verity

    I didn’t think Alice was very happy with the change… I thought she wanted to go back to how she was : )

  • Jared

    If you are a dreamer,come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!

    So i love Shel and his poetry.
    The Alice poem i quote frequently , especially to my evangelical friends as they try so mightily to stop the tides of change. Then i bring in my If your a dreamer poem from Shel and i mention how the dreamers and wishers and hopers and magic bean buyers of this world are how our faith will spread. Not through the fear, redemptive violence and using a get out of hell card as the trump in our stack of who is jesus lines. Rather the creative, imaginative one who reveals the LOVe trump card, the one the forgives and steps into a new century…that is where our faith is going. Its a liquid thing that flows through time and we need to move as the river does not create our own inlets, shoals, ox bows and other derivatives

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