Beauty and Brokenness

By Carol Plunkett

This book explores the wonder of being alive combined with the searching questions that come in the middle of the night about what is happening in our world and how God could let us get in the state we currently find ourselves in. The author looked for answers and received some, and this collection of poems provides a wry, sometimes humorous and often joyful exploration of life, the universe and the everyday wonders of God's Creation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carol Plunkett
• Release date: Mar 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370275489

Carol Plunkett

Based in Hampshire, UK, Carol writes a mixture of poetry and short stories, often with a spiritual theme exploring why life happens the way it does. She is married with two grown up children and spends her time painting and waliking.

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Beauty and Brokenness

This is the story (so far!) of my stony walk of faith, complete with the diamonds of grace and beauty as well as the painful blisters and searching questions that I couldn’t avoid along the way.

Some things only God can answer, and He faithfully does if we wait expectantly.

This book is dedicated to the people of

St John’s Church, Rownhams for all the preaching, teaching and encouragement.

And to Michael Hugh, whose love is the treasured constant in my life.

A World for You

If I could paint a world for you, my child,

I’d fill it with the sparkle of new life

With bursting buds I’d break the frosted ground

And put an end to darkness and to strife

I’d drench your ears with birdsong and your skin

Would tingle with the sunlit warmth of love

I’d draw your heart with fullness, till you know

My peace and tranquil beauty from above

If I could paint a world for you, my child,

Our days in lost abandon we would spend

No thoughts would crowd out wonder or pure joy

And time would never start and never end

Wonder

Though a trillion coloured droplets just refract to cause an arc

And though atmospheric pressure can explain Aurora’s spark

And the moon and sun’s alignment can account for sudden dark

Still you wonder

While a flock of birds’ formation is just clever ebb and flow

And their epic navigation is pure habit, don’t