Welcome to 31 Days of Poetry & Writing Prompts–Day 9.

I hope you are enjoying a lovely Sunday. Today’s post (and all Sunday posts) will be short. Today it’s just a little poem with a big message from Emily Dickinson.

Do you have to see it to believe it?

 

I Never Saw a Moor

by Emily Dickinson

I never saw a moor,

I never saw the sea,

Yet I know how the heather looks,

And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,

Nor visited in heaven,

Yet certain am I of the spot

As if the chart were given.

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I didn’t see the ocean with my bare eyes until I was 19. You might guess, if you’ve been around these parts, that the ocean is one of my favorite things.

All that time, I knew it was somewhere out there, but I’d never felt its foam between my toes or its salt inside my mouth. I’d seen pictures. I’d seen it on TV, where I watched the waves fall into the shore.

But I didn’t know the salt would sting my legs after I shaved. Or that it would also heal my sunburn.

There are other things in life we know, whether we see them or not. A lot of things, if you think about it.

It takes a lot of faith to be human in this world.

Do you have to see it to believe it?

What may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities–His eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Romans 1: 19-20

Writing Prompt:

Write about something you didn’t need to see to believe.

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