Each week we carefully curate a collection of poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
Lectionary Reading: Matt. 5:13-20
CLASSIC POEM:
Winter Stars
Sara Teasdale
Found in:
Flame and Shadow
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I went out at night alone;
The young blood flowing beyond the sea
Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings–
I bore my sorrow heavily.
But when I lifted up my head
From shadows shaken on the snow,
I saw Orion in the east
Burn steadily as long ago.
From windows in my father’s house,
Dreaming my dreams on winter nights,
I watched Orion as a girl
Above another city’s lights.
Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,
The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars,
All things are changed, save in the east
The faithful beauty of the stars.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Ode to Salt
Pablo Neruda
SNIPPET:
This salt
in the salt cellar
I once saw in the salt mines.
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