Tag: Poem
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The Thing about Goldfinches
A poetic reflection about changing through the seasons of the year and through life inspired by a class about winter birding.
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Embracing God’s Presence: Care, Attention, and Sharing
Now!Give heed!I am teaching: Observe,live,enter… The God of your ancestors is giving you… Keep the Lord your God,observe diligently…show wisdom and discernment. Surely, is god so near…whenever we call. Care,and watch closely.Neither forget the thingsyour eyes have seen,nor let them slip –Make them known! Reading this poem after I’d gone through the blackout poetry process…
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Echoes
Sometimes, the echoesreverberate so thunderously they threaten to drown outthe pleasant conversation at hand. © Annabelle P. Markey This poem came to mind while I was praying and walking on Friday, August 16. It’s a meditation on those moments when the “coulda, shoulda, woulda” voices rise unbidden in an overwhelming crescendo. In those moments, which inevitably…
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Ripe
It takes time for the oblate berries to reach their matte indigo hue, basking in the June sun. They’re so tempting thoughwhen they’re almost therehaving warmed from pale greento bright, maroon-ish purple. Sure,they’ll darken morein the berry bowl but they will always bepuckeringly tart. If only I have the experience, foresight,will,patience,to hold on –one…day…more… Oh!How sweet the taste! © Annabelle P. Markey
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Early Morning Walking Poems
Two poems written while walking around on retreat at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, VA.
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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…
Journeying Together 