We continue our weekly series of poetry that resonates with the lectionary readings for the week (Revised Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: 1 Peter 2:19-25
CLASSIC POEM:
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?
The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –
This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Washing the World
Anna Marie Sewell
SNIPPET:
lay your hands upon the truth of beauty’s loss
heavy, soft as moss, this blanket
full of tears and dust and dying
becomes ocean cradle, healing, dark
the promise, washed clean by our sorrow
today crying out, as we’re birthing tomorrow
…
[ READ THE FULL POEM ]
Poet and performer Anna Marie Sewell was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and is of Mi’gmaq, Anishinaabe, and Polish heritage. She is the author of the poetry collections Fifth World Drum (2009) and For the Changing Moon: Poems and Songs (2018). Sewell’s practice incorporates poetry, song, theater, and community arts. She was poet laureate of Edmonton, Alberta, from 2011 to 2013, her tenure featuring the interactive public art installation The PoemCatcher.
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