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.
Tag Archives: Easter
Only after Pain Comes Life
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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.
Out of the Blackness Every Morning
Many of Mary Oliver’s poems, including “The Sun,” function well as Easter poems.
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.
