Well, today is Ascension Day and so this marks the very last poem for my Swelling Year project. When I first set myself the task of writing a poem for every day of the liturgical calendar, it seemed to both me and to others to be biting off substantially more than I could chew. Well, a little over a year later and the project is finished – and what better way to finish than with Jesus ascending to heaven.
Ascension Day
I wonder did they see the clouds
Gather round You as You soared,
Envelop You in vapour-praise
As You rose slowly home?
And did they marvel when they saw
Gravity that day defied
Or did it just confirm for them
What they already knew?
For He, their minds might have reasoned,
Who raised the dead and was once dead –
He who made the bread stretch far
And was Himself the Bread –
Could gather clouds as witnesses
And make the air raise hands,
Could rise as though He made the sky
And was its risen King.
The Consolations of Writing 
This is SO beautiful, Matthew–I wish I could write like this; and Big Congrats on completing a fine and noble challenge!! God bless you–sis Caddo
Thanks 🙂 It was a really rewarding project to work on.
A lovely poem, Matt. Congratulations on completion of an amazing project!
Thanks Liz!