Poet of the Month
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4/25/2021
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On Adam by Matthew Sisson I like to think of him in the Garden, lonely without yet knowing what loneliness is. He moves with a stride unencumbered by gravity. Or waist high in ferns, though sometimes I hope a little gust of wind parts the green curtain. His chest is smooth. His nipples in proportion. I’m talking about the time before Hell broke loose. No scar at his rib to mar the surface. That flat stomach unencumbered by an umbilicus. I watch him eating fruit. Grapes, oranges, the juice running from his mouth. At the river, he kneels down on all fours extends his neck, giraffe-like, drinks. Some days he cups those perfect hands in the water. The animals line up calmly, unafraid-- elephant, zebra, rhinoceros. --Reproduced with permission of the author. |
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https://youtu.be/iCsQOo4FXng
April is Poetry Month.
Snow Drops Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect to awaken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring-- afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy in the raw wind of the new world. Louise Glueck (Nobel laureate in Literature, 2020) |
Sunday Services are canceled today,
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Anti-Racism
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Have a look at a slideshow of the Previous 40 Days of Prayer
while listening to lovely patriotic music from Monique Weiss Byrnes.
To hear it, just click on the audio clip below it.
while listening to lovely patriotic music from Monique Weiss Byrnes.
To hear it, just click on the audio clip below it.
40 Days of Prayer During Election Season
November 4, 2020 Christian citizens, it’s time to come to the aid of our nation Pray. Act. Every day for forty days.
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“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
-Abraham Lincoln A Suggested Prayer:
Revolutionary Spirit of Democracy, |
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