Many of Mary Oliver’s poems, including “The Sun,” function well as Easter poems.
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Replacing the Temple with the Torah
Nicole Krauss’s marvelous novel “Great House” finds hope in the Torah, which takes many forms.
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the dance of Jesus music holds the air
These Lucille Clifton poems usher us from Lent into Easter.
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Here Is No Water but Only Rock
Dry rocks have functioned as images of spiritual desolation throughout the history of Good Friday poetry.
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Yielding the Heart to an Easter Lily
Claude McKay poem about an Easter lily is a sensuous immersion.
A Breathing Palace of Leaves
Many of Mary Oliver’s nature poems enact a version of the crucifixion and resurrection.
Far Off the Bells Rang through the Morning
Mary Oliver finds Easter holiness in a new born fawn.
Dear Son, Far Off, My Lost Desire
I understand more with each passing year what Tennyson means when he says his love “is vaster passion now” and how Hallam is thoroughly mixed with God and nature. Tennyson goes on to say that the moral will of humankind—the “living will” that is the best part of ourselves as a people—can finding footing on this spiritual rock. And that the living water that springs from this rock will “flow through our deeds and make them pure.”
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Rise, Heart, Thy Lord Is Risen
I write this the night before our sunrise Easter service where, as members of our church choir, Julia and I will arise before dawn to sing in the rising of the sun/son. No matter how early we get up, George Herbert’s “Easter” reassures us, the Lord is always there before us
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