The Poem

This is the poem that OLP got their name from.

OLP standing in a field

 

Our Lady Peace

by Mark Van Doren

How far is it to peace, the piper sighed

The solitary sweating as he paused

Asphalt the noon, the ravens, terrified

A\Fled carrion thunder that percussion caused.

 

The envolope of earth was powder loud;

The taut wings shivered driven at the sun.

the piper put his pipe away and bowed

Not here, he said. I hunt the love cool one.

 

The dancer with clipped hair where is she?

We shook our heads, parting for him to pass

Our Lady was of no such trim degree,

and none of us had seen her face, alas.

 

She was the very ridges that we must scale,

Securing the rough top. And how she smiled

Was how our stregth would issue. Not to fail

was hvaing her, gigantic undefiled,

 

For homley goddess big as the worl that burned,

Grandmother and tasmistress, frild and town.

we let the stranger go; but when we turned

Our Lady lived, fierce in each others frown.