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Remember You Got a Father
I ran across this on Richard’s Beck’s blog “Experimental Theology” (see link below). The poem, by Henri Cole, is both sad and hopeful. Sad because it recounts how difficult life was was and still...
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A Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Just a beautiful poem for your reading and reflecting pleasure. I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of...
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On My Way to Yes
Finally on my way to yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into my skin, my bones, those coded...
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A Pause of Thought
Have you ever wanted or even longed for something that always seemed to be out of your grasp? If so, then maybe you can identify with this poem. A Pause of Thought by Christina Rossetti I looked for...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Berry
Today is the birthday of poet and essayist Wendell Berry, born in Port Royal, Kentucky in 1934. Here are three quotes and a poem from Berry that I like. "Rats and roaches live by competition under the...
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John Updike’s “Seven Stanzas At Easter”
This is perhaps my favorite Easter poem. Make no mistake: if He rose at all it was as His body; if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules reknit, the amino acids rekindle, the Church...
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On January 10th
1776 – Thomas Paine published the pamphlet “Common Sense.” Oh, how I wish today’s politicians would read it. 1858 – English poet and hymnist Frances R. Havergal wrote the words to her first popular...
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On January 11th
1813 – The first pineapples were planted in Hawaii (And you thought they were native to Hawaii, didn’t you? I know I did). 1903 – Alan Paton, South African writer and author of Cry, the Beloved...
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Night Terror
I hear them breathing and in the dim light of the luminescent clock, I see the gentle rise of the covers and their subtle movements walking to their room, moments before, the cold of the hard floor on...
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Soul Ache
Some do not believe people have souls. They are biological literalists, accepting only what their eyes can see, their fingers touch, and their ears hear. Perhaps they are right. Maybe the ache I feel...
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