”Qu’ils sont beaux, led pieds!” It’s our Anniversary Week!

Jenny and I are taking the week off to celebrate our wedding anniversary. The success of our No Compromise conversations, in which I always say, ”Qu’ills sont beaux, lex pieds” to introduce my Jenny, is here explained. Jenny was God’s gift of grace to me, my path back to His arms. On Valentine’s Day 2022, we posted my original poem to Jenny on our Simple Gifts podcast. We repost that episode here on the Christian Atheist. Qu’ils sont beaux les pieds, ”How Beautiful are the Feet” (Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15) is my love song to my Jenny this Valentine’s Day! My love has only grown exponentially since we married. My one earthly goal is to spend every available second with her! Yeats’ poem ”He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” was my foundational poetic influence in writing this piece, but there were many, many more, some of which I trace out in this episode. Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life!          Qu’ils Sont Beaux Les Pieds I have spread my dreams under your feet For they speak to me of Golden Mean Of swirls and curly fractal stream Scent, sight, tactile complete Complement-whorl in all ways meet You, transcendent cloth in immanent flesh- I, being poor, naught can commend But dreams of you I receive and send - The clothes of heaven in poverty dress Unless thus enrobed your feet shall press               Upon my dreams Tread softly, my Love, for what dreams may come Through which our mortal coils may travel Roads taken & not taken ravel & unravel Though past is past, it is not the sum For Time is not an unbroken arrow Parallel treks we’ve trod in struggle Converge in One a history double Time-tethered we, within our marrow, Revise what was through what will follow From Pieds Beaux you spiraling rise Tripped too often by syncopated schism Now dance with me in measured rhythm To theme-captured melody from your eyes Woven with dreams in cloths of skies © John Wise, February, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #poem #poetry #verse #literature #aestheticliterature #aesthetic #rhythmic #phonaesthetics #soundsymbolism #metre #prosaic #literarycomposition #poet #ambiguity #symbolism #irony #poeticdiction #muse #prosody #meter #metricalpatterns #rhymescheme #Qu’ilssontbeauxlespieds #love #lovepoem #lovepoetry #valentinesday #howbeautifularethefeet #yeats #williambutleryeats #williamyeats #hewishesfortheclothsofheaven