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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