Creation Season

Introduction
Over the next few weeks as we go through the autumn a poem will be included with the weekly readings.
Some of the poems will be familiar and others may be new to you.
They will reflect thoughts and ideas associated with this time of year.

During the Creation Season we remind ourselves of God’s gift to us in all the wonders of creation. But we also remind ourselves that we should be caring for the earth rather than using it as a resource to be exploited.

Through the Season of Remembering we acknowledge that we and our communities have been affected by loss,
illness and death. We recognise those who have influenced our lives for good and we give thanks for God’s steadfast love.

On the Grasshopper and Cricket John Keats 1795 – 1821

The Poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.