Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – 7th Sunday After Pentecost ( Year B )


Each week we carefully curate a collection of  poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).

*** Revised Common Lectionary ***

Lectionary Reading:
2 Corinthians 12:2-10

CLASSIC POEM:

Not To Discover Weakness Is
Emily Dickinson

Not to discover weakness is
The Artifice of strength —
Impregnability inheres
As much through Consciousness

Of faith of others in itself
As Pyramidal Nerve
Behind the most unconscious clock
What skilful Pointers move —

*** This poem is in the public domain, 
  and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.

CONTEMPORARY POEM:

After the Diagnosis
Christian Wiman

SNIPPET:


Change is a thing one sleeps through
when young, and he was young.
If there was a weakness in the earth,
a give he went down on his knees
to find and feel the limits of,
there is no longer.

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