Recent This Week's Poem

• This Week’s Poem: ‘How Could I Ever Forget That Flash of Light’ - Mitsuyoshi Toge

  Last week the blog “God’s Politics” ran this poem by Mitsuyoshi Toge in commemoration of the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.  As the post stated: 
  Mitsuyoshi Toge, born in Hiroshima in 1917, was a Catholic and a poet. He was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city on August 6, 1945, [...]

  August 5th, 2007

• This Week’s Poem: I Wonder

  This “poem” was published by Gisela Raines in a sermon of hers on the Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary email discussion group.  She took it a book by Ivor Smith-Cameron entitled Pilgrimage, an Exploration into God. The poem was written by  Derek Tasker and printed on a Christmas card.  At the end of this post you will [...]

  July 5th, 2007

• A Reflection on Death and Dying

  I watch her breathe . . . quick shallow breathes,and I see the IV drip its medicine and morphine into her arm.They provide an artificial, but necessary, peaceand a relief from any pain she may feel.I listen to the oxygen as it bubbles in the water in the small jar hanging on the wall behind her [...]

  June 2nd, 2007

• This Week’s Poem: “You Do Not Have to Be Good” by Mary Oliver

  I found this poem a while back on Maggi Dawn’s blog. I don’t think I agree with it’s basic premise: “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves,” but the imagery and language nevertheless speak to me (much as the serpent spoke to Eve in the garden maybe).
  If [...]

  March 30th, 2007

• This Week’s Poem - Wendell Berry

  This week’s poem is “The Summer Ends,” by Wendell Berry. It is taken from his book A Timbered Choir, which can be purchased by clicking on the the title.
  Poems are reprinted on this website with the hope that those reading them will discover new poetry and poets and will hopefully purchase the works of the [...]

  March 3rd, 2007