Month: September 2020
Updated on September 25, 2020
Poem for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity
Let Evening Come Let the light of late afternoonshine through chinks in the barn, movingup the bales as the sun moves down. Let the cricket take up chafingas a woman takes up her needlesand her yarn. Let evening …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 8 Glory
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Updated on September 18, 2020
Poem for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity
Housekeeper This is my little town, My Bethlehem, And here, if anywhere, My Christ Child Will be born. I must begin To go about my day– Sweep out the inn, Get fresh hay for the manger And be …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 8 You are IN the Spirit
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Updated on September 10, 2020
Poem for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity
Mushrooms Overnight, veryWhitely, discreetlyVery quietly Our toes, our nosesTake hold on the loam,Acquire the air. Nobody sees us,Stops us, betrays us;The small grains make room. Soft fists insist onHeaving the needles,The leafy bedding, Even the paving.Our hammers, our …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 8 Spirit of Life
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Posted on September 10, 2020
Poem for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity
Hurrahing in Harvest Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks riseAround; up above, what wind-walks! What lovely behaviourOf silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavierMeal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?I walk, I lift up, I lift up …
Updated on April 22, 2024
Romans 5 : Hope
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