Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s Daughter Because the bees flew toward light the color of honey, she couldn’t see them but heard their hum, deep thrum of the colony come out of the hive, comb dripping with loss and the smoke her father used to subdue, to pacify the fear that might spur an attack. It […]
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In a series of synchronistic events a poem I wrote has come back to me more than thirty years after I wrote it and almost twenty years since I had disavowed it and forgotten it! I had forgotten that a dear friend, Sarah Wilson, copied out the poem in her distinctive and wonderful script with […]
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October 2, 2015 – 1:37 am
from An Interview with Li-Young Lee LYL : The word quest is in that word question. I feel as if I’m going to live my life as a giant question mark. I’m just going to live open, ready to encounter whatever God puts in front of me next. I have fewer and fewer answers. I […]
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Overhead The sun is a slow gong in a brass bowl, the moon also rings her bell against the indigo steel of the night sky. By painting, Emily Carr decoded heaven as a coastline vast bays of ripped blue and Vincent drew his circles tighter than the tattered orbits of his own life. Art like […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Also tagged Denise Levertov, Edward Hirsch, Greg Wolfe, How To Read a PoemSpirituual Poetry, Kasim Ali, Luci Shaw, Of Being, Overhead, Stanley Kunitz, Stephen Dunn, The Denise Levertov Award, Walking Light, Wild Braid
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An Alphabet of Poets – J is for Jarman from THE WORD “ANSWER” With this prayer I am making up a God On a gray day, prophesying snow. I pray that God be immanent as snow When it has fallen thickly, a deep God. With this prayer I am making up a God Who answers […]
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