Poetry

Lectionary Poetry – 18th 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:
Mark 9:30-37

CLASSIC POEM:

Child, Child
Sara Teasdale

Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man,
Never fear though it break your heart –
Out of the wound new joy will start;
Only love proudly and gladly and well
Though love be heaven or love be hell.

Child, child, love while you may,
For life is short as a happy day;
Never fear the thing you feel –

Only by love is life made real;
Love, for the deadly sins are seven,
Only through love will you enter heaven.

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

CONTEMPORARY POEM:

Morning Song
Naomi Shihab Nye

SNIPPET:

The tiny journalist
will tell us what she sees.
Document the moves, the dust,
soldiers blocking the road.

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