With the dawn of a new church year, we have launched a new feature on our website, a weekly post of poetry that resonates with the lectionary readings for that week.
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Isaiah 62:1-5
CLASSIC POEM:
I’m ceded — I’ve stopped being Theirs
Emily Dickinson
I’m ceded—I’ve stopped being Theirs—
The name They dropped upon my face
With water, in the country church
Is finished using, now,
And They can put it with my Dolls,
My childhood, and the string of spools,
I’ve finished threading—too—
Baptized, before, without the choice,
But this time, consciously, of Grace—
Unto supremest name—
Called to my Full—The Crescent dropped—
Existence’s whole Arc, filled up,
With one—small Diadem—
My second Rank—too small the first—
Crowned—Crowing—on my Father’s breast—
A half unconscious Queen—
But this time—Adequate—Erect,
With Will to choose,
or to reject,
And I choose, just a Crown—
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Crown
Sally Rosen Kindred
SNIPPET:
Believe a crown of kingfishers, their spines
tuned for ascent, their belted
feathers split
with blue light that scatters
as they loose the tree—
a crown, a wound, a consequence
of birds whose blue light rattles sky,
whose feathers, strung beneath our star,
sing to bruising…
…
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