For New Year’s Eve and Day, here’s some poetry: Section 106 from “In Memoriam” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in theContinue reading “Ring Out, Wild Bells”
Monthly Archives: December 2015
On Aging
Today’s prompt from The Daily Post: What are your thoughts on aging? How will you stay young at heart as you get older? My thoughts on aging come from my experience of my own aging body. I’m 67. As I reached my 50’s, various body parts began to go bad on me, many theContinue reading “On Aging”
Raised Catholic
Raised Catholic In February 2010 I attended the AWP’s ( Association of Writers and Writing Programs) National Conference in Washington DC. I love this conference; it’s the second one I’ve attended. Meeting my poet friends in person – people I’ve corresponded with, have been Facebook Friends with, those with whom I’ve interacted at the West ChesterContinue reading “Raised Catholic”
Generous Genies
I give my three wishes to three refugee families this Christmas Day: that they find safe homes today. <a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/generous-genies/”>Generous Genies</a> <a href=”https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/generous-genies/”>Generous Genies</a>
Favorite Christmas Cards
I save my favorite Christmas cards that I have received over the years. Most of them have something to do with birds: I have many more, and many with more directly religious images, but for today, I’ll close with this wish for all of us:
Now
It’s foggy, rainy, and 55 degrees outside my window in Maryland USA right now. Still, the days are growing longer again. Here’s a poem by Susan Cooper: And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away.Continue reading “Now”
O Route of Jesse
The “O” Antiphon, “O Root of Jesse,” changes for me into this: O Route of Jesse through the desert of dessert, foretold by sage mint and rue, too. Streets of severance, tendrils twining on my ankles, bring me down, holy holly, bind me, blind me, clutching ivy, map my angry trip through the muckContinue reading “O Route of Jesse”
O Gathering Light
“Gathering Light” painting by Janice Mason Steeves Here’s my “O” Antiphon for the day: O gathering light, receiving light, ours, ocelli, theirs, ommatidia, Who opens the insects to navigate the world, finally, late this year, in mid-November, when strangely green leaves still stand on the pin oak, on the mild still day, at lastContinue reading “O Gathering Light”
O Long Night
This continues my own personal “O” Antiphons: O long night full cold moon, draw me like the sea, draw me like Magritte paints you peering through the wrought iron tree. O Duende, when I sing with you, no one can qualm, no one can calm, no one can come dancing to the dark soundContinue reading “O Long Night”
The Artist’s Eye
Mario Marini “The Miracle” About forty years ago I took a course at Johns Hopkins University called “Images of Man in Modern Sculpture.” Apologies for the lack of inclusive language, but that was 1976! My teacher was Phoebe Stanton,the art critic for the Baltimore Sun. Our textbook was the Hirschhorn Museum in DC, asContinue reading “The Artist’s Eye”
Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky 