Tag Archives: poetry
Place your hand…
Place your hands upon me like a big tent preacher and with a whisper heal all that aches inside. Put your lips upon my forehead and glance your eyes to the sky, tell me that I’ll walk again and tell me I can fly. Hold me like a revival and shake the demons from my […]
New Year Resolve
For it is now or not As old age silts the stream, To shove away the clutter, To untie every knot, To take the time to dream, To come back to still water. from “New Year Resolve” by Mary Sarton
Rain
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning. Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgiveable mistakes? […]
Bless our crummy little hearts.
This past Sunday, I laughed along with the hundred or so other people filling the pews at New Canaan’s First Presbyterian Church as the pastor read a poem by Richard Newman entitled Bless Their Hearts. In it, Newman makes fun of way we often think handing out heart blessings serves as a cover-all for the […]
A Prayer Among Friends
a poem by John Daniel “Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive with one another, we walk here in the light of this unlikely world that isn’t ours for long. May we spend generously the time we are given. May we enact our responsibilities as thoroughly as we enjoy our pleasures. May we […]
At the County Fair, 1956
A poem by Charles Darling For a nickel, a machine called An Expression of Faith would take your dime and squash it. All tubes and gears and lights, the thing would groan, squeak, fart, smoke, and finally drop a little silver oval in your hands, hot as a pistol, with Jesus’s face on one side […]
Kelsey Elizabeth Dallas 