Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”
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Tag Archives: Easter
It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!
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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.
I, Only I, Must Wander Wearily
While Easter is often celebrated through elaborate rituals, this Wilde poem reminds us not to forget its true meaning.
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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