Tag Archives: Poetry

Deep peace of the shining stars

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Kerry

Deep peace of the shining stars to you Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you. On a wall of 20 Hills Cottage, that most hospitable of places, Hannah displays a prayer from Iona: The deep peace of the … Continue reading →

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White chickens

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Kerry

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. I have loved this poem by William Carlos Williams since I first encountered it, long, long ago, in my teenage years. (Thank you to … Continue reading →

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Song of Falling Leaves

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Kerry

by Susanna Joy Magruder Listen to the song of falling leaves. Observe with a hastening breath. for Before the hour of their demise Their faces shine with a burning sun; Many jewels across the tumbling wind. From a sulfur glazed … Continue reading →

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What are your dreams?

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Kerry

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. This was one of the first poems I … Continue reading →

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Bruce Cockburn – love in a broken world

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Kerry

“Like a stone on the surface of a still river, driving the ripples on forever, redemption rips through the surface of time in the cry of a tiny babe…” (Bruce Cockburn, “Cry of a Tiny Babe”) The Incarnation reveals the … Continue reading →

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Mountains like clouds

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Kerry

O Earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of a central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the … Continue reading →

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Moonlight

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Kerry

As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin’s haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious chamber of the air. Now hidden in a cloud, and now revealed, As if this phantom, full of pain, Were … Continue reading →

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Compass Quotes

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Kerry

As an undergraduate I typed up three quotations on index cards to post above my desk. These old cards are tattered now. (Click for a larger view.) In Junior High my parents delighted me with the gift of a portable … Continue reading →

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