Acrostics

A word of explanation. An acrostic poem is a poem with a message printed down its left side, usually one word long, though some have been longer. There are such things as double acrostics, which would have a message spelled down the right hand side as well. C. S. Lewis did some of both kinds, but then, he liked math and puzzles and such. The poems on these pages are all acrostics. I haven't done any double acrostics, yet.

Birth

Being there was before time
Emptiness gave forth to substance
Into that darkness came there light
New worlds with those stars then sprang.
God smiled softly at the sight.

February 9, 1974, Evening
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Life

Life, what is it, but a dream;

Interlude between forevers;

Filiment, so thin a seam

Every moment close to waking?

March 6, 1974, 10:10 P.M.




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Lillies

Lillies blooming in a field,
Incense from their dipping bells;
Lifted from above the land
Lilting song rises and swells.
Is the music of the spheres
Every moment sung in joy?
Sing! Discover for yourself!

March 6, 1974

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By Evaonne F. Hendricks
This page updated on 6/1/2005