Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects - Micha Boyett<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects - Micha Boyett\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Micha Boyett\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-16T04:42:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"michaboyett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"michaboyett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/\",\"name\":\"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects - Micha Boyett\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-16T04:42:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-04-16T04:42:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f\"},\"description\":\"I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/\",\"name\":\"Micha Boyett\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f\",\"name\":\"michaboyett\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"michaboyett\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/author\/michaboyett\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects - Micha Boyett","description":"I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects - Micha Boyett","og_description":"I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/","og_site_name":"Micha Boyett","article_published_time":"2010-04-16T04:42:05+00:00","author":"michaboyett","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"michaboyett","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/","name":"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects - Micha Boyett","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-04-16T04:42:05+00:00","dateModified":"2010-04-16T04:42:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f"},"description":"I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/","name":"Micha Boyett","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/76bf91736930dab4c916899429801c6f","name":"michaboyett","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cf5de016968bf2db1cb8b3bcda2d7e19?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"michaboyett"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/author\/michaboyett\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":316,"date":"2010-04-15T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamamonk.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2010-04-15T21:42:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:42:05","slug":"pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2010\/04\/pied-beauty-the-grouch-reflects\/","title":{"rendered":"Pied Beauty: The Grouch Reflects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ve been wanting to share a little about our current Hopkins<\/a> poem: why I love it, what it\u2019s been meaning to me, what I hope you\u2019re getting out of pouring it into those crinkly recesses of your brain.<\/p>\n

But I have to admit, I\u2019m tired and off schedule (it\u2019s never easy for me to write when I\u2019m not at home in normal life\u2026and right now I\u2019m visiting family), and feeling a bit sheepish because I\u2019m the worst mom in the church nursery and received a second \u201csign up to volunteer or else!\u201d email today (which made me feel like a such a jerk. Ugh. I hate that feeling of failing people and not being the person I want them to think I am. I\u2019m afraid nursery lady hates me and now I\u2019ll never prove to her that I\u2019m not just the mom who doesn\u2019t sign up for nursery duty.)<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019m calling on the depths here. I\u2019m needing Gerard Manley to tell us why we love him and need his words on this fine Friday morning.<\/p>\n

I chose \u201cPied Beauty\u201d because it reminds me of Spring and I had sweet images of myself hopping along the street by the park in paisley capris, latte in one hand, stroller in the other, gazing musical-actress-like from flowering tree to tweeting bird, quoting Hopkins to my son with my mouth and worshiping God with my heart. Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n

Why do I sound so bitter today?<\/p>\n

Maybe I should stop here\u2026before I pull out my poetry handbook and start spouting off all the \u201cI studied poetry in grad school\u201d things about Hopkins\u2019 style and form and rhythm and depth. I\u2019ll stop before I go line by line into how this poem uses images and descriptions that are completely average in regular life but somehow rockets them into splendor, taking us completely by surprise. (It\u2019s like how roasted chicken is perfect with just salt, pepper and lemons\u2026it needs none of the fancy stuff.)<\/p>\n

How many songs and poems and silly melodies some refer to as \u201cworship music\u201d start with \u201cGlory be to God\u2026\u201d? And how many complete that thought with \u201cfor dappled things\u201d? Ahhhh. I love that.<\/p>\n

I love Hopkins because even right now in my sour disposition (did I mention that I have a chest cold?), I can\u2019t help but get giddy of over giving glory to God over, yep, just some \u201cdappled things.\u201d You know. The usual.<\/p>\n

Please, friends. If you\u2019ve been memorizing this poem, tell us what the process has been like for you, what you think about it, if you\u2019re giddy about it or feeling really sorry for your extra crinkly brain or your chest cold.<\/p>\n

Happy Friday\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"