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Sunday, March 28th, 2021 (Palm Sunday) “Passiontide” by Michael Coffey And so the time comes to let you go againlike Mary at her weeping stationlike Peter in his running shameful crylike Mary Magdalene’s sad watchful eyelike the soldier’s gasping epiphanylike Joseph gently laying your body down and releasing youinto the tomb the darkness the emptyContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 28th”

Saturday, March 27th, 2021 “Christ Has No Body” by St. Teresa of Avila Christ has no body but yours,No hands, no feet on earth but yours,Yours are the eyes with which he looksCompassion on this world,Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all theContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 27th”

Friday, March 26th, 2021 “The Place Where We Are Right” by Yehuda Amichai From the place where we are rightFlowers will never growIn the spring. The place where we are rightIs hard and trampledLike a yard. But doubts and lovesDig up the worldLike a mole, a plow.And a whisper will be heard in the placeWhereContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 26th”

Thursday, March 25th, 2021 “The calling of the disciples” by Lucille Clifton some Jesushas come on me i throw down my netsinto the water he walks i loose the fishhe feeds to cities and everyone calls mean old name as i follow outlaughing like God’s foolbehind this Jesus

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 “The Walk” by Ann Weems Those of us who walk along this roaddo so reluctantly.Lent is not our favorite time of year.We’d rather be more active—planning and scurrying around.All this is too contemplative to suit us.Besides we don’t know what to dowith piousness and prayer.Perhaps we’re afraid to have time toContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 24th”

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 “Sympathy for Lazarus” by Michael Coffey He didn’t ask to be a magic trick like some dead rabbitpulled out of a stone hat with a hocus pocus incantation he didn’t want to be resuscitated in full decrepit stinkfor his mother to see him shambling down the cemetery road he was restingContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 23rd”

Monday, March 22nd, 2021 “Just like Job” by Maya Angelou My Lord, my Lord,Long have I cried out to TheeIn the heat of the sun,The cool of the moon,My screams searched the heavens for Thee.My God,When my blanket was nothing but dew,Rags and bonesWere all I owned,I chanted Your nameJust like Job. Father, Father,My lifeContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 22nd”

Sunday, March 21st, 2021 (5th Sunday in Lent) “Lent” by Christina Rossetti It is good to be last not first,Pending the present distress;It is good to hunger and thirst,So it be for righteousness.It is good to spend and be spent,It is good to watch and to pray:Life and Death make a goodly LentSo it leadsContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 21st”

Saturday, March 20th, 2021 “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;And all is seared withContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 20th”

Friday, March 19th, 2021 “The Glory” by Madeleine L’Engle Without any rhymewithout any reasonmy heart lifts to lightin this bleak season Believer and wanderercaught by salvationstumbler and blundererinto Creation In this cold blightwhere marrow is frozenit is God’s timemy heart has chosen In paradox and storyparable and laughterfind I the gloryhere in hereafter