While Easter is often celebrated through elaborate rituals, this Wilde poem reminds us not to forget its true meaning.
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Mothering Jesus
Spiritual Sunday – Mother’s Day For Mother’s Day, here are three Madeleine L’Engle poems about Mary and Jesus following the crucifixion. I love how they focus on Mary as mother. Three daysWhen you agree to be the mother of GodYou make no conditions, no stipulations.You flinch before neither cruel thorn nor rod.You accept the tears; […]
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Shafts of Golden Light
Easter Sunday For Easter I offer up two April poems that work as a before and after. First, Rainer Maria Rilke speaks of the “slumbering silence” before everything bursts into flower. Then William Carlos William describes that bursting as almost too much to bear. First the breathless anticipation, then the flowering. In the Rilke poem, […]
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Jesus as a Gardener
Sunday Perhaps I should have saved today’s joyous poem by Andrew Hudgins for the spring growing season since it associates Easter with new growth, but you’re getting it today because I enjoy it so much. To set it up, I’m also posting a poem by Lucille Clifton, which also focuses on Easter fertility imagery. “Christ […]
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Love, the Lesson which the Lord Us Taught
Edmund Spenser joyfully welcomes in Easter, proclaiming “Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.”
Only after Pain Comes Life
For Mother’s Day, here’s a Madeleine L’Engle poem about Jesus’s mother experiencing the crucifixion and then the resurrection. In it we see both the joys and the heartbreak that come with an unconditional mother’s love.
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Absent from This World, Alive in Another
As is traditional with this blog, we share a Mary Oliver poem about a magical encounter with a deer–which recalls Mary Magdalene’s magical encounter with Jesus in the garden.
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A White Cross Streaming across the Sky
Today’s Easter poem is Mary Oliver’s “The Swan,” in which everything suddenly becomes clear.
