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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

Thursday, March 18th, 2021 “Prayer for Overcoming Indifference” by Chaim Stern, Ed. For the sin of silence,For the sin of indifference,For the secret complicity of the neutral,For the closing of borders,For the washing of hands,For the crime of indifference,For the sin of silence,For the closing of borders.For all that was done,For all that was notContinue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 18th”

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 “Imperatives” by Kathleen Norris Look at the birdsConsider the liliesDrink ye all of it AskSeekKnockEnter by the narrow gate Do not be anxiousJudge not; do not give dogs what is holyGo: be it done for youDo not be afraidMaiden, ariseYoung man, I say, arise Stretch out your handStand up, be stillRise,Continue reading “Lent 2021: Daily Poetry Series – March 17th”