Malcolm Guite - Transfiguration -Poem for Transfiguration Sunday, Year C

The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the 7th Sunday after Epiphany, Year C can be found here)

Transfiguration

Malcolm Guite

to accompany the lectionary reading: Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

SNIPPET:

For that one moment, ‘in and out of time’,

On that one mountain where all moments meet,

The daily veil that covers the sublime

In darkling glass fell dazzled at his feet.

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Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. (via Wikipedia)