Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – 14th Sunday After Pentecost (Year A)

Lectionary Poetry Advent

Each week we carefully curate a collection of Lectionary Poetry that resonates with the scripture readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
 
 

*** Revised Common Lectionary ***

Lectionary Reading: Jeremiah 15:15-21

 
 

CLASSIC POEM:

Pain Has An Element of Blank
Emily Dickinson

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain

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

CONTEMPORARY POEM:

Alone
Maya Angelou

SNIPPET:

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong

[ READ THE FULL POEM ]

 
 

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