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Tag Archives: poetry
Summer poems are prolix
Summer poems are prolix, extending tendrilsof metaphor and alliterative allusion; opulentlythey reach out to the reader,to the supposed reader, to the deferential target –to anyone, really – and, carelessly, indulgently,to no one at all. Late summer poems get down,a bit, … Continue reading
“No poem”
I have no poem to offer you, my friends:only a pale flower,arms outstretched in joytoward the stormy heavens.
The Unaccommodating
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
FIRST
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
Posted in Other poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged Australopithecus, humanity, poetry, time
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What Keeps Time?
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
Your Monday Blessing for today
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
The Diner
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
Posted in Other poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged diner, marriage, poetry, The good life
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Great Story Prayer
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
Your Monday Blessing: the self
May your find yourself so often and in so many marvellous guises that the I is the aperture to all things
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged Atman, masquerade, photography, poetry, self-fulfillment
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Your Monday Blessing: the water
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
Posted in Other poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged evolution, memory, poetry, room service
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Rev. Bob Janis 