Tag Archives: Transcendence

Abandon the Shoes That Brought You Here

David Whyte and Lucille Clifton both have poems about Jesus walking on the Sea of Galilee. For both it means stepping into uncharted paths.

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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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