My English Literature teacher assigned for us to write two Heroic Couplets in the style of Pope. Tonight when I was at Gray Owl (SUCH a lovely idea Koby), I was reading Jeremiah 17 in the message and I loved the way this was worded…
” The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, God, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.” Jeremiah 17:9-10
I LOVE that last part… Why do we convince ourselves that we aren’t dark and deceitful. Only in Christ do we live in the light. Oh my God shine You light on us!! Such a thought… That passage along with my current journey inspired my couplets. I hope you enjoy. Feel free to criticize and give me suggestions… Or not since I’m about to turn them in and then will get insecure = )… I’ve decided that while I don’t dislike iambic pentameter, I don’t specifically like heroic couplets. Rhyming poems tend to irk me. Especially when I write them. I like Shakespeare’s pentameter a hundred times more than that of Pope. That’s why Pope is second to Shakespeare in most quoted English poets, I suppose. Ok I’ll quit blabbering on now. Sing a joyful song! Oh and here are the couplets…
“You say that You search the heart and the mind,
But will You take thine and in Your love bind?
