As we are still in the Easter season, here’s a Christina Rossetti carol that captures the joy.
Tag Archives: Easter
It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!
Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”
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Breaking Bread at Emmaus
Levertov says that seeing Jesus’s resurrection as no more than a metaphor is not enough for her. She requires a tangible miracle.
Blazing Lilies, a Prayer Heard & Answered
Mary Oliver’s “Morning Poem” works as a fitting verse for Easter, with its vision of new creation–which for her occurs every day.
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Reporting on My Lenten Observance
For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.
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Out of Black Ponds, Water Lillies
“Morning Poem” works as an Easter poem because every morning, as Oliver sees it, is a mini-resurrection.
