Holy Cheese

by Michael D Nalley   Jan 20, 2014


In his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain Merton reflects
on the journey most of the secular world rejects
The poet wrote about the tears of the rich and the poor
In a place in his heart many seemed to adore.
Where men pray with their hands and also make cheese
With the time that they do not spend down on their knees

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  • 10 years ago

    by Michael D Nalley

    For centuries "the poets" have lavished attention on wine, and its role as the liquid muse of love, wisdom, friendship and creative expression. The same with bread. But that other enduring staple, cheese, suffers from a serious deficit of literary attention

  • 10 years ago

    by Michael D Nalley

    Cheese 3 (chÄ"z)
    n. Slang
    An important person. Often used in the phrase big cheese.

  • 10 years ago

    by Michael D Nalley

    'The zinc roofs in the moonlight
    And the tin shop, the gas tank
    And the water tank, all look like silver.
    Like a star, like a cigarette,
    Far out, over Nally's hill,
    A passenger plane
    Passes and flashes in the night.'

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