ArtServe member Rachel Gallehawk is also a Methodist local preacher and a Chartered Librarian. She wrote this poem whilst in the Lake District which is her favourite place to walk. Seamless was written in Rydal woods, in the grounds of Rydal Hall in Cumbria and weaves together her love for God's creation in the surrounding landscape.

Other poems shared by Rachel Gallehawk are Herongate and Life-Saver

Seamless

How I in awesome wonder Lord
Kneel below your green canopy
And In silence I do dwell
Like a tiny tiny seed
Still but forever seen.

 

The great ones

Who once stretched out to the skies

Have fallen, splintered and torn,

Sprawled sentries

Lying all around

Yet new growth abounds beneath

As they return home to you,

Lost not, their memory lives on.

 

Overhead, the crying geese do fly

Nearby, silken threads do flow, and dance,

And run and fall and run and fall

And sing their timeless song

Foaming over glistening rock

Plunging Into ferny pools

Of unknown depth.

 

I follow, and return in those footsteps

Of those who came before,

All seems new and yet-

Behold! Your majesty is declared by all;

If you have the ear, the eye the soul

Be bold and name your Lord!

Through God’s silent thrumming song

Of bird, of beast, of man, of all.