Lent & Easter

Easter poems, songs, and commentary

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,as though I had wings.― Mary Oliver Here Comes the Sun— The Beatles lyrics by George HarrisonHere comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)Here comes the sun, and I sayIt’s all[…]

Holy Saturday Meditations

Spring — Mary Oliver And here is the serpent again.Dragging himself out from his nest of darkness,His cave under the black rocks,His winter-death.He loops around the bunches of rising grass,Looking for the sun. Well, who doesn’t want the sun after the long winter?I step aside,He feels the air with his soft tongue,Around the bones of his body[…]

Lenten Reflection Day 46 (April 8): COME TO PASS (Isaiah 42:1-9).

SONG: The Chant: Come To Pass: https://youtu.be/kc6dEx9cgR0 POEM: Rachel Hadas: Pass It On III (excerpt): … Death makes life shine … QUOTE:  Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage,[…]

Lenten Reflection Day 45 (April 6): WILL NOT BREAK (Isaiah 42:1-9).

SONG: Kevin Rudolf ft Lil Wayne: I Will Not Break: https://youtu.be/mNcSwvo007s POEM: Mark Kirschen: Monet (excerpt): Sunlight will not break us—Rather / We move illumined / Return daily…To save what has been hammered / By the sun / Most of it unmapped, still / Uncharted… QUOTE:  Bob Marley: …he will give you a part of[…]

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