POETRY
Country Church
Clasped like a jewel
By green fields around
This small church has stood
For nearly a thousand years
The sunlight through the stained glass
Reflects its past onto today’s congregation
A shepherd with his lamb
Shines onto a commuter’s leather coat
Mary with the Christ child
Is projected onto a summer dress
Motes of dust dance
In a shaft of sunlight
Shining through an ancient pane
So, the past caught in the quietness
Of a summer evensong
Passes on unseen.
Sarah Das Gupta is an 82-year-old writer from Cambridge, UK who has lived and taught in India and Tanzania, as well as UK. She started writing last year after an accident which limited her walking to a few metres. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies in over 20 countries from New Zealand to Kazakhstan.
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Image: L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet (The Church at Auvers) by Vincent van Gogh. Public domain.
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