Poetry

Poetry

House of Bread

I once spent an afternoon in Laja. / A small town on the Bolivian altiplano, / Laja is a village… Nancy Thomas
Poetry

Tranquility

Ceasefires rarely last, / But wonders never cease. / And I’ve heard how once on Christmas Eve David Cameron
Poetry

The Garden of Adam

In the beginning, God hocked a wad of holy spit / into the dust, slushed it around, and rolled out Tamara Kreutz
Poetry

Schrödinger’s Seraphim

What happens behind the closed temple doors when no human is present? / Is there a silence, a waiting, a… Vija Merrill
Poetry

Vital Conversations

There is no silence. / God’s voice is everywhere— / In the vital conversation Gloria Heffernan
Poetry

Waiting

Beyond the east windows / three birches reflect and refract the sunlight. . . . James Hannon
Poetry

The Book of Hours

Waking early, I catch the trail / of night. Its silky ink / dissipates by inches while I sip. .… Magda Andrews-Hoke
Poetry

A Text That Changes Everything

He called us Friends. This means that we may get / a text that changes everything. For now, . .… Welling Hall
Poetry

Name Change

For nearly twenty years I’ve been a member / of the “Men’s Spiritual Nurture Group” Howard Nelson
Poetry

Tuning Up

A staccato jackhammer, / rattle of a loose windowpane, / a frisking wail of wind. Richard Schiffman
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Wednesday Evenings

A gaggle of barefoot pilgrims / hungry to hush minds’ chatter / tiptoe upstairs, settle Karen Luke Jackson
Poetry

Morning Prayer

While river whispers / at his window, carrying night slowly / downstream, he rises, like a pre-dawn lark Anne Maren-Hogan
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