SHARON SCHOLL

Sharon Scholl is a lifelong seeker of spiritual understanding from long cultivation in Christian congregations to membership among Unitarian Universalists.  Her poems hover around questions of life’s meaning, as in her new chapbook, Seasons, available through Amazon.  She maintains a website of music and poetry free for download at freeprintmusic.com, especially useful for small churches.

WITHOUT ANGELS, WITHOUT STARS

God cannot stare

through the common eyes

of a no-name baby

from a no place town.

No hum-drum peasant

can be shot through

with those mysterious ways

spirit has with matter.

The aweful ordinary 

is what we can’t abide.

We must have alien visitors

fresh from realms of glory.

Thus, the plaster star,

the hovering gauze-winged angels

proclaim our fatal blindness

to God’s immanence.

Read more of Sharon’s work in Solum Journal Volume I.