Category: Poetry
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Poems from On High

Each of these five poems was written on a recent flight from Washington, DC to Colorado, inspired by the view of the landscape below from 30,000+ feet. Golden thread of silt and commerceCities strung like pearlsAlong your banksWhere do you go?Where is your beginning?To what end do you flow? Fossilized dinosaur spinesor maybe…branching treesreclining for…
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Psalm 42 Remix

A deer longs…My soul thirsts…The living God –Come and behold! Continuallyremember,pour out –throngin processionwith shoutsand songs,keeping festival! Cast down?Disquieted? Hope. My help,my God!Remember. All,Steadfast love,God of my life,My rock –Why forgotten? Walk mournfully?Dead-ly?Continually? Hope in God –Help! © Annabelle P. Markey
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“Follow Me” (Matthew 16:24-28)

Jesus told his disciples,“My followersdeny themselves,take up their cross,follow me.Truly I tell you,taste death…see the Son of Mancoming in his kingdom.” While praying my daily lectio divina practice with Matthew 16:24-28, the words that caught my attention were “will not taste death.” As I sat with those words for a little while and entered into…
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Dear Jesus,

Inevitably on my walk I whisper, “I wish to see you…” Then, surprisingly or rather unsurprisingly, Deer leap from hiding once obscured around me. Tails up – white flags to say, “I’m here!” Do you, too, hide in the shadows – the thick, tangled underbrush, the thickets of our lives – where all is a…

