Tag: Poetry
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Public Proclamation. Yikes!
Hazel Motes is the main character in Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel Wise Blood. Hazel Motes is a street preacher of the kind that is rare today and perhaps hard for us to imagine. He stands outside movie theatres, and on the hood of his old car, proclaiming his gospel—he competes with other hawkers of religion…
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Advent Crows – a poem
Advent Crows Cawing, keening crowsloud overhead on the bike path;inky silhouetted flockagainst deep indigo sky,twilight of Advent. Lift, turbulence, beating wings;cacophony in whorled airbecome, somehow, invitation toenvelopment in mad feathered flight,toward hidden social roost. Memory of Colville’s Seven Crowsgliding in captured stillnesstoward some opaque future,encircled viewer drawnforward in uncertain landscape, or foreboding of Cyclist and…
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New poem: “Geometry of Advent”
A new poem for the second Sunday of Advent (2017): And here is the poem within an alternative geometry (click on the poem/image to open it in a more readable format):
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Northern Advent (poem)
Northern Advent Scattered desiccated leaves cling to branches against autumn’s churning winds, resisting deciduous barrenness, new coloured prominence of Red Pine, Juniper, Hemlock. Feathered, long-distant migrants soar, flit, and fly from greyed terrain for southern home and habitat; wintering chickadees cache seeds in creviced bark for hunger’s moment. Poet’s romantic autumnal landscape lost on those…
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