Our Journey for Lent begins - with a new round of Art to share with you, connecting faith and feeling, spirituality and art - an...
A Purification At start of spring I open a trenchIn the ground. I put into it The winter’s accumulation of paper, Pages I do not want...
Makebelieve And on the first day god made something up. Then everything came along: seconds, sex and beasts and breaths and...
Today is the Festival of Holi - birthed from Hinduism, but a celebration of Indian/Nepalese culture worldwide. It is also World Poetry...
I Worried I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the riversflow in the right direction, will the earth turnas it was...
Little Gidding V What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make and end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start...
The Bright Field I have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone my wayand forgotten it. But that...
FOR LENT, 1966 It is my Lent to break my Lent. To eat when I would fast, To know when slender strength is spent, Take...
Lullaby Lay your sleeping head, my love,Human on my faithless arm;Time and fevers burn awayIndividual beauty fromThoughtful children,...
The More Loving One Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is...
Hoodlum BirdsThe fearless blackbirds see me againat the footpath beside the tall grassessprouting like unruly morning hair.They caw and...
Narrative Theology And I said to him Are there answers to all of this? And he said The answer is in a story and the story is being...
Anthem The birds they sangat the break of dayStart again,I heard them say,Don’t dwell on whathas passed awayor what is yet to be.The...
I saw the Sun at Midnight I saw the Sun at midnight, rising red,Deep-hued yet glowing, heavy with the stainOf blood-compassion, and I...
Good Friday Am I a stone, and not a sheep,That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross,To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow...
The Coming And God held in his handA small globe. Look he said.The son looked. Far off,As through water, he sawA scorched land of...
“Hope” is the thing with feathers “Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words...
Caged Bird A free bird leapson the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun...
Preludes IThe winter evening settles downWith smell of steaks in passageways.Six o’clock.The burnt-out ends of smoky days.And now a...
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and...
Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall.One night when the November windhas flayed the trees to bone, and earthwakes...
Advent Credo It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss—This is true: For God so loved the...
Advent Wind whistling, as it does in winter, and I think nothing of it until it snaps a shutter offher bedroom window, spins it over...
The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold The winter is cold, is cold.All’s spent in keeping warm.Has joy been frozen, too?I blow upon my handsStiff...
Advent 1955 The Advent wind begins to stirWith sea-like sounds in our Scotch fir,It's dark at breakfast, dark at tea,And in between we...
Continuities Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.Nor life, nor force, nor...
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Let me not lose my dream, e'en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing through their glaze of tears,Let me...
Advent Good Wishes Give you joy, wolf,when Messiah makes you meekand turns your roar into a cry thatjustice has been done for the...
Advent Hands I see the hands of Joseph.Back and forth along bare wood they move.There is worry in those working hands,sorting out...
Into The Darkest Hour It was a time like this,War & tumult of war,a horror in the air.Hungry yawned the abyss-and yet there came...
The Stable The winds were scornful,Passing by;And gathering AngelsWondered why A burdened MotherDid not mindThat only animalsWere...
ADVENT (On a theme by Dietrich Bonhoeffer) Look how longthe tired world waited,locked in its lonely cell,guilty as a prisoner. As...
The God We Hardly Knew No one can celebratea genuine Christmaswithout being truly poor.The self-sufficient, the proud,those who,...
Advent 'Come,' Thou dost say to Angels,To blessed Spirits, 'Come':'Come,' to the lambs of Thine own flock,Thy little ones, 'Come...
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses.Flood waters...
Christmas Bells I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf peace on earth,...
Nativity Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,Now leaves His well-belov'd imprisonment,There He hath made Himself to His intentWeak...
The Journey Of The Magi A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep...
Hill Christmas They came over the snow to the bread’spurer snow, fumbled it in their hugehands, put their lips to itlike beasts,...
