Category Archives: Devotional Poetry

Your Monday blessing: for Martin Luther King day

Posted on January 19, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

It is easy to see a threat or a statistic or a shadow or a foreigner or a project or a failure or the help or a demon we see these things as easily as breathing we can see them … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: The Pact

Posted on January 12, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

I’ll make a pact with you: Today we make the world more beautiful. Let us compose epics from the diner straws, And draw breath as our gang sign. The sky is full of pictures that can teach us Monday afternoon. … Continue reading →

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Deal with God

Posted on January 8, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Deal with God Sometimes I offer to make a deal with God. “I’ll tell you about my resistance to prayer,” I say, “If you’ll explain the Holocaust.” God declines to comment, and the lawyers make their prepared statements on his … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: The Phoenix by Cheryl Dedecker

Posted on January 5, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Your New Year’s Monday blessing comes to you from the pen of a friend and poet, Cheryl DeDecker. Thank you, Cheryl! The Phoenix 2015 A sense of anticipation And a dull sense of sadness Both claiming space in her heart … Continue reading →

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Where the Old Year Goes

Posted on December 29, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

There is an inn, where the old year goes, On the far hill, where the crabgrass grows, and the honeysuckle, Where the stones incline together, a few aurochs painted on their side, Beneath the thatch of rusted armies and dried … Continue reading →

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A room in my heart

Posted on December 22, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

Lord, I have prepared a little room in my heart for the child who is the light of the world. Nothing fancy: there’s hay everywhere, I’m afraid, and beneath the mess, the stone hasn’t been polished at all. You know, … Continue reading →

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On the Corner of New and Union

Posted on December 19, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

On the corner of New and Union, The crossing guard asks me where I’m headed. Now, I’m thirty-eight years old. I’ve been across the street and back again, If you know what I mean. I mumble my thanks, and wave … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: star followers

Posted on December 15, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

We, too, have followed a star. Before Bethlehem, it lit the night in alien worlds, resplendent, mattering much to all those with eyes to see. What ancient astrologers tracked its course through their heavens, and saw, in the infinite darkness, … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: for Advent

Posted on December 8, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

There will always be Herods in this world: Petty men in large palaces, Murderers of dreams. And there will always be a little Herod in us, Scribbling decrees On our map of the Heavens. There will always be Magi in … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on November 17, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

not the destination or even the journey but the day’s worth of road with the mountains behind you and the sun up there somewhere and a grand, wondering maybe whistling through your bones

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