Category Archives: Poetry
Poem-a-Day Friday: Rainer Marie Rilke
(My New Year’s resolution was to read one poem a day. Every Friday, I share one of those poems with you.) This week I read Rainer Marie Rilke with my writer’s group and discussed one of his poems from The … Continue reading
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Poem-a-Day Friday: Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens is another poet whom I really ought to know better. But, ain’t gonna lie, he’s difficult for me. Any time I read a poet who obviously knows more than I do, I tend to shut down. I … Continue reading
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Poem-a-Day Friday: Wislawa Szymborska
In graduate school I took a course on 20th century Polish poets (Poland has produced some of the world’s best poetry in the past 100 years). It was a fantastic class. In it, I studied Wisława Szymborska, a woman … Continue reading
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Poem-a-Day Friday: “The World as Will and Representation”
I’m still working my way through Robert Hass’ Time and Materials so you get another Hass poem this week. (Next week I’ll give you something new, I promise.) This book is beautiful. There are several poems I could have chosen … Continue reading
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The Very First Poem-a-Day Friday
Remember how I made a New Year’s Resolution that I would be reading, really reading and thinking about, one poem a day for the year of 2012? I love poetry, I write poetry, I studied poetry, but it’s amazing how … Continue reading
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How He Entered
“…a son, a male child, who will rule all nations with an iron scepter.” -Revelation 12:5 He entered, not a barn, not a hay-filled nursery, but a galaxy, a kingdom groaning for his rule. He arrived, not from a young … Continue reading
Christ’s Mother Reflects, His Childhood
“and for him to see me mended / I must see him torn.” -Luci Shaw “Mary’s Song” He stood at the door, wet-faced and panting. in his hands three baby birds. They’re hungry, he sniffed, nested them in a bowl … Continue reading
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Darkness
“For Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall rise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness … Continue reading
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The Lord is With Thee
The Lord is With Thee -from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1 They hail me Mary, full of grace. They bless me: brave, obedient—holy. What would you have said to the twelve-foot, light-soaked man, a gold flecked tower whose honey … Continue reading
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Star
Each Friday of Advent, I’ll be sharing from a series of five Advent poems I wrote for John Knox Presbyterian Church in Seattle. I hope they speak to you as you prepare for the coming of Christmas. Star “A great … Continue reading
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