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Poem for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

My boat so small(from the Breton Fisherman’s Prayer) My boat so small,the sea so wide,be near me, Lord,through wind and tide. In sun and calm,in fruitful days,the work is yoursand yours the praise. But when the wavesare mountain-high,be …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Poem for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

Blackberry Picking Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one …

Poem for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

Wedding From time to time our love is like a sailand when the sail begins to alternatefrom tack to tack, it’s like a swallowtailand when the swallow flies it’s like a coat;and if the coat is yours, it …

Praying on…

Hello friends, I hope you’re well. As life continues to be a bit unpredictable, please do give yourself grace if you are experiencing less-than-optimum mental health. On that note I’ve just listened to this very chatty and helpful …

Poem for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity

I love to see the summer beaming forth I love to see the summer beaming forth And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north I love to see the wild flowers come again And Mare blobs stain …

Summer Prayers

Hello Friends, A few more nuggets from the past to consider praying with this week. Clothe Yourself with Love – a meditation Examen for Children Peace Every blessing Lissy