Category Archives: Your Monday Blessing

“No poem”

Posted on December 28, 2020 by bobjanisdillon

I have no poem to offer you, my friends:only a pale flower,arms outstretched in joytoward the stormy heavens.

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The Unaccommodating

Posted on November 9, 2020 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing: The Unaccommodating The 21st century will be the century of the unaccommodating. The earth will not fall in line with your procurement request. The ocean has not even read the listing on your beachfront property. The oil … Continue reading →

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FIRST

Posted on September 10, 2019 by bobjanisdillon

With these auspicious lines, the poet commences The earliest poem of the Australopithecus anamensis. Or were you first? Did those acuminated senses Place the objects of the world within your bars, And did that mouth of yours grunt out an … Continue reading →

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What Keeps Time?

Posted on August 22, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

What keeps time? Heartbeats steps a circle, pulled through its circumference a jar, beneath some papers, in a cupboard a tick a dinosaur, reshaped and reappraised rings on a tree waves, microwaves, and train goodbyes the folded hands of a … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing for today

Posted on July 17, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

May God’s home be in the arms of the homeless and the refugee, may God’s ceremony be justice, may God’s tribute be surrender. May God’s righteousness be the poor, confirmed, and may God’s river be the very stream where she … Continue reading →

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The Diner

Posted on July 10, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

The night before I got married, there was a diner. It was across the street from the motel where we were staying – where I was staying, and my friends, and a few various of my family, and the night … Continue reading →

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Great Story Prayer

Posted on June 19, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Eternal spirit of life and love, o God, We come together in your presence today, Grateful to be a part of the great story. What a magnificent story it is! From the whirling of the stars, To the evolution of … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: the self

Posted on June 12, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

May your find yourself so often and in so many marvellous guises that the I is the aperture to all things

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Your Monday Blessing: the water

Posted on May 29, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Let me tell you a story about myself. I came from the water – before I had this body, I mean, when I was all ambition and a few tendrils. I came from the water, and flopped up onto the … Continue reading →

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Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow

Posted on May 22, 2017 by bobjanisdillon

Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow as she walks home through Paris after her interrogation by the Gestapo. Judy Garland, full-throated, echoes off the Boulevards, decommissioning silence, adding a few notes to joy’s chapter in the book of life. … Continue reading →

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