Time for the Gulls

Having an incredibly hard week and wanting desperately for something to give. I cam across this poem by a woman I admire for so many reasons beyond her ability to touch souls with her words. She has given me faith to hang on.


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Time for the Gulls
by Carol Lynn Pearson

Carol Lynn Pearson, “Time for the Gulls,” Carol Lynn Pearson, Time for the Gulls, New Era, Oct. 1976, 50

It’s time, Father,
For the gulls, I think.


My arms shake
From flailing my field.
I sink,
Broken as the little stalks
Beneath their devouring burden.

I yield it all to you,
Who alone can touch all things.
It’s time, Father,
For the gulls.

I will be still,
And listen for their wings.