David Whyte and Lucille Clifton both have poems about Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee. For both it means stepping into uncharted paths.
Tag Archives: Transcendence
Abandon the Shoes That Brought You Here
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Scraping One’s Knees on Jacob’s Ladder
Denise Levertov draws on the Jacob’s dream about a stairway to heaven to capture poetry’s transcendent qualities.
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Dissolving into the Glories of the Sun
Andrew Marvell’s “On a Drop of Dew” compares the soul’s visit to the earth realm to a dew drop. In the process, he references the manna in the wilderness, today’s Old Testament reading.
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A Divine Stairway of Sharp Angles
Levertov uses to story of Jacob’s Ladder to describe the miracle of poetry.
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The Rest between Two Notes
A Rilke poem captures the spirit of Advent when he describes his life as “the rest between two notes.”
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