Be mindful of the world, Mary Oliver tells us in “Mindful,” a poem that echoes Wordsworth and Hopkins.
Tag Archives: William Wordsworth
Lose Yourself Inside This Soft World
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Christ Be with Me, Christ within Me
To understand the Trinity, think of yourself sitting in nature and seeing God both in and beyond your surroundings.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Chat", "Flower in the Crannied Wall", "St. Patrick's Breast Plate", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Celtic Christianity, Dante, Green Gospel, Holy Trinity, Intimations of Immortality, John Gatta, Mary Oliver, Paradiso, Trinity Sunday Comments closed
He Took Us with Him to the Heart of Things
Poet’s writing about the Ascension often focus on our tangled lives.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ascension", "Crown: Ascension", "Sonnet for Ascension Day", Henry Vaughan, John Donne, Malcolm Guite, Tintern Abbey Comments closed
The Otherworldly Cry of the Loon
Nemerov’s “Loon’s Cry” searches for the transcendent in our world.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Loon's Cry", "World is too much with us", Capitalism, Howard Nemerov, materialism, Nature Comments closed
A Wordsworth Thanksgiving Poem
In which I read Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” as a Thanksgiving poem.
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Preserved in God’s Golden Sap
In Karr’s spiritual vision, we are like precious insects, preserved in the glowing amber of God’s love.
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God Reaches Us through Art
I share a talk about the relationship between God and creativity. Authors mentioned: Shelley, Homer, Plato, Silko, Walker, Clifton.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to the West Wind", "the light that came to lucille clifton", Alice Walker, Artist's Way, Ceremony, Color Purple, Creativity, Homer, Intimations of Immortality, Ion, John Milton, Julia Cameron, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Plato, poetic muse, Republic Comments closed
For England, Buttercup > Melon Flower
“Oh to be in England now that April’s here”–and not in Italy, with its gaudy melon flowers!
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Auguries of Innocence", "Elegy on a Country Churchyard", "Flower in a Crannied Wall", "Home Thoughts from Abroad", Alfred Lord Tennyson, England, flowers, Intimations of Immortality, Robert Browning, Thomas Gray, William Blake Comments closed
