Tag Archives: Poetry
Lectio Poetica No. 5
The Circle of Praise
Lectio Poetica No. 4
Christmas Poem for 2019
Lectio Poetica No. 3
Willingness to Be Attentive
This Mary Oliver poem always reminds me of the first reading
from today's Sunday liturgy (posted below) about Abraham
and Sarah welcoming the three strangers.
MOCKINGBIRDS
This morning
two mockingbirds
in the green field
were spinning Read more [...]
Carl Sandburg Poem ~ A Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
A Fence
Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
workmen are beginning the fence.
The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.
As a fence, Read more [...]
Two Poems by Amy Leach
When Trees Dream of Being Trees
The tree decided to stop growing after it grew its thousandth leaf. "No more," it whispered, and started throwing flimsily attached twigs and old nests down, and shaking the birds out. "I am a terrible tree! A thousand Read more [...]
Impossible Blossom
I was walking through the nearby park a few days before Easter and snapped this picture. I think the photo is an apt icon for Easter. I like that the blossoms catch the eye first and are pronounced but also how on closer inspection it appears the flowering Read more [...]