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:
Psalm 119:9-16
CLASSIC POEM:
The Treasure
Robinson Jeffers
Mountains, a moment’s earth-waves rising and hollowing; the earth too’s
an ephemerid; the stars—
Short-lived as grass the stars quicken in the nebula and dry in their
summer, they spiral
Blind up space, scattered black seeds of a future; nothing lives long, the
whole sky’s
Recurrences tick the seconds of the hours of the ages of the gulf before
birth, and the gulf
After death is like dated: to labor eighty years in a notch of eternity is
nothing too tiresome,
Enormous repose after, enormous repose before, the flash of activity.
Surely you never have dreamed the incredible depths were prologue and
epilogue merely
To the surface play in the sun, the instant of life, what is called life? I fancy
That silence is the thing, this noise a found word for it; interjection, a jump
of the breath at that silence;
Stars burn, grass grows, men breathe: as a man finding treasure says ‘Ah!’
but the treasure’s the essence;
Before the man spoke it was there, and after he has spoken he gathers it,
inexhaustible treasure.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The pure in heart
Gracia Grindal
Snippet:
“Blessed are the pure in heart for they
Shall see God.” How can a heart be pure?
Pollution in rivers we filter away
So we can drink from fountains clean and clear.
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