Inkling Explorations Link-Up ~ November 2015

It's time for our November Inklings! :) And I have a note for all of you... I'm opening up the drawing board for topic suggestions we can use in the coming year -- so let me know all your wonderful ideas in the comment box!

And this month's selection is: A Giving of Thanks in Poetry or Prose

My choice (Hopkins's Hurrahing in Harvest) has been described as a Eucharistic poem and -- while not a "thanksgiving" poem per se -- it often springs to my mind at this time of year. It's actually one of my favorites in all seasons... exuberant joy welling up and soaring to the sky. Hopkins himself noted: ‘The Hurrahing sonnet was the outcome of half an hour of extreme enthusiasm as I walked home alone one day from fishing in the Elwy.’ So yes, it's the heart of thanksgiving and harvest rolled into one.

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"SUMMER ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise 

Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour 

Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier 

Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies? 

I walk, I lift up, I lift up heart, eyes,

Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour; 

And, éyes, heárt, what looks, what lips yet gave you a 

Rapturous love’s greeting of realer, of rounder replies? 

And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder 

Majestic—as a stallion stalwart, very-violet-sweet!—

These things, these things were here and but the beholder 

Wanting; which two when they once meet, 

The heart rears wings bold and bolder 

And hurls for him, O half hurls earth for him off under his feet."

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hurrahing in Harvest

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Just leave your link here in a comment and I'll add it to the post. :) Entries are open through the end of the month and I can't wait to see your selections!

Olivia @ Meanwhile in Rivendell
A Song of Thanksgiving ~ Hamlette @ The Edge of the Precipice

A Giving of Thanks ~ Jillian @ a room of one's own
Faith @ Stories by Firefly

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That's all there is to it!

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Up next month: A Christmastide movie scene