GORDY’S POEM: THE CORNERSTONE by Ramey Channell

Gordy’s Poem: The Cornerstone by Ramey Channell

(a poem written for my father after his death)

"Then what is the meaning of that which is written: The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone?”

Beneath the birding sky, cold blue and safe,

bricks laid one to another, timeless bond and true,

by hands long learned and destined to this trade,

a world of walls and beauty, shelters made.

Unlost, unvanished, close beneath blue skies,

and yet somewhere a’wandered, biding still,

he built a hearth within our hearts laid strong

in patterns laid of mortar, brick, and song.

Ramey Channell is the author of three novels: Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge, The Witches of Moonlight Ridge, and The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge, and children’s picture book, Mice from the Planet Zimlac. Ramey’s poems and stories have been published by Aura Literary Arts Review, ASPS, Birmingham Arts Journal, Ordinary and Sacred as Blood: Alabama Women Speak, Belles Letters 2, Well Read Magazine, and many other collections.