This morning I ran across a word I hadn’t heard in a while since it is so rarely used. The word: palimpsest, and I read it in a poem by Longfellow brought to me by “The Writer’s Almanac“:
Night
Into the darkness and the hush of night Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away, And with […]
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This past Sunday “This American Life” on NPR stations aired an episode called "Mistakes Were Made." The show was all about people who apologize without really apologizing. A short segment at the end of the broadcast featured William Carlos Williams’ poem “This is Just to Say,” which reads:
This Is Just To Say
I have eaten […]
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Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even […]
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The other day, shortly after I wrote my post Waiting and Patience, I received a flyer from a retreat center that had the following poem in it:
Patient Trust By Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
Above all, trust in the slow work of God
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to […]
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This comes from November 2005. I post it again for my own continued abasement and embarrassment.
the death of lovelike autumn’s adventcomes slowly at firstand not without its ownterrible beautypassion, like leaves,may even flame for awhile,but the leaves fall and are tossed aboutin the wind,and the passion fadesand one is left with a chill in the […]
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Charles Wesley, song writer extraordinaire and co-founder of Methodism, was born 300 years ago today. In his honor and memory I post my favorite hymn/poem of his. Titled Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown in the United Methodist hymnal, the poem Wrestling Jacob is an extended meditation on Jacob’s encounter with an angel or […]
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I have loved the writing of Richard Brautigan since being introduced to him by Jon Nicolas, a friend of mine from my college days at Eastern Kentucky University in the early 80s. Jon came to my dorm room one night in 1981 bearing Brautigan’s classic novel In Watermelon Sugar, and from the opening lines of […]
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A poem by the Sufi mystic Hafiz/Hafez.
A Love Like ThatBy Hafiz
EvenAfterAll this timeThe sun never says to the earth,“You owe Me.”Look What happensWith a love like that.It lights theWholeSky.
Source: The Gift
Amazon.com: The Gift: Books: Hafiz,Daniel Ladinsky
ISBN: 0140195815ISBN-13: 9780140195811
Technorati tags: poem. poetry, Hafiz, Hafez, Sufi, love, mysticism
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This poem recalls a night during my teenage years when my sleep was disturbed by a dream, a nightmare really, that Jesus had returned, the rapture had taken place, and I had been left behind. This was in the days well before the Left Behind “novels” had been written. No,the books that caused […]
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drybarrenmy heart a desertmy soul a wilderness filled with wild beastsfearsorrowangerdoubtwhere is the God of my salvationDeus absconditus.
I seek but do not findI am in Sheolbut You are not thereforsakenI cry out for your presencebut hear only the echoes of my anguish in replyI need your loveI need your Spiritelse […]
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