• Home
  • Blog
  • Current
  • Archives
  • Shop
  • Donate
  • Subscribe
  • Contests
  • About
    • Contact
    • Submit
    • Media Kit
    • Resources
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Facebook

DappledThings.org

A quarterly journal of ideas, art, and faith

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter

A Timeless Embrace

Dappled Things

John A. Di Camillo

Unfettered spontaneity of the escalating breeze
Whistling wisps of tingling excitement
Flying clouds of rapid torsion tying tighter
Azure world now clear, once gray, now white, now black
Shimmering splatters of weightless power
Pulling, pushing, twirling, hurling, lifting, soaring—CRACK!
A slice of chaotic light.
An instant.
A distant rumble groaning briefly.
Soaked and startled earth now cools with fading winds.
Blackened sky now gray, once white, now clear azure.
Caprice of the stratosphere.

Deep and hidden, year by hundred years
Hot though covered, tear by hundred tears
Unseen, unfelt beneath the earthly shell
Slow peaceful movement under tender spell
Magnanimous bodies of solid mass
In tiny steps move pass by pass
Graciously their borders meet
Unknown but all the more complete
Time extends their interaction
Focuses the chain reaction
Within the core a shudder sets
Its firmness constancy begets
Thundering power to quake the lands
Tempered, focused in time’s sweet sands
They move the mountains, reshaping the earth
Permanent fruit of eternal worth.

The solid ground incites the air
Its mountains teach with loving care
The brilliant flash to pause, to stare
The covered depths in bass now share
Majestic secrets, rich and rare
With sudden lights which rather dare
Toward caprice, nothing but a flare.
Yet, Lo! The earth holds fast and fair
And to the winds does ever bear
That tempered glass of timeless gaze—
Immortal now this lightning phase.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, John A. Di Camillo is currently studying Bioethics at the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He is a member of the Dappled Things editorial board.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Share on Skype (Opens in new window)
DT Subscribe

Filed Under: Christmas 2006, Poetry

Comments

  1. bail bonds greene county says

    August 28, 2014 at 4:01 am

    Thank you for another informative website. Where else may just I am getting that kind of information written in such a perfect approach?

    I’ve a undertaking that I’m simply now running on, and I’ve been at the look out for such information.

  2. best bail bondsman saint louis missouri says

    August 29, 2014 at 7:03 am

    You really make it appear really easy together with your presentation however I in finding this matter to be actually something which I believe I
    would never understand. It sort of feels too complicated and
    very extensive for me. I’m having a look forward to your subsequent put up,
    I’ll try to get the cling of it!

Candlemas 2018

Purchase

Featuring the work of D.R. Bates, Joshua Hren, Renee Emerson, Joshua Jones, Thomas Vozar, and more.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Share on Skype (Opens in new window)

Newsletter

Sign up to receive the latest news from Dappled Things.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Have you enjoyed our content online or in print during the past year?

Dappled Things needs the support of its readers over and above the cost of subscriptions in order to continue its work.

Help us share the riches of Catholic art and literature with our impoverished culture by donating to Dappled Things.

Archives

Home
Blog
Current
Shop
Subscribe
About

Copyright © 2018 Dappled Things · Staff Forum · Log in

Graphics by Dominic Heisdorf · Website by Up to Speed

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.