Sibyl

     
     
     She stepped carefully over green sprouts

     in cracks of sidewalks—her Mother’s Back

     of nursery rhyme fame—not concrete—

     not spaces between—but what grows out.

     (Power of Eternity, Your Word

     grows flesh like You and all things Eden.)

     Cover it over but green breaks through

     delighted that she saw and transferred.

     She opened in blooming radiance

     in time and beyond.  Dawn and Food and

     Love and Wisdom flowed as she over-

     stepped boundaries of our man-made myths.

     Look at the songs she wrote, pregnant with

     Viriditas, her vision’s zenith!

Posted for my prompt

         Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Hildegard von Bingen

Copyright © 2014 S.L.Chast

Karen P. Thomas says of her song above: 

“O nobilissima” is the final movement of Lux Lucis, 

a collection of three motets for women’s voices, 

on texts by Hildegard von Bingen. 

(Posted on January 17, 2013 by Karen P. Thomas)

     Latin text                                                     English translation

O nobilissima viriditas                                O most noble greenness,
que radicas in sole                                      you are rooted in the sun,
et ques in candida serenitate                      and you shine in bright serenity
luces in rota                                                in a sphere
quam nulla terrena excellentia                  no earthly eminence         
comprehendit:                                             attains. You are enfolded
Tu circumdata es                                        in the embraces of divine
amplexibus divinorum                                ministries.
ministeriorum.                                             
Tu rubes ut aurora                                     You blush like the dawn         
et ardes ut solis flamma.                             and burn like a flame of the sun.