Backward Mutters

Category: poetry

  • Light of the World

    Light of the World

    This is the fourth in a series of ekphrastic poems based upon an Advent art project which Grace Presbyterian is doing to mark the Sundays to Christmas. The project is entitled The Jesse Tree, and you may read more on the Grace Presbyterian website HERE. A talented artist in the…

  • St. Lucy’s Day

    St. Lucy’s Day

    The cloudy sky o’erwhelms the failing sun Who does not show or shine on sleeping trees But wintered ‘way to southern courses run Where the warm breeze blows golden, dappled leaves. Dear Lucy, wreathed in beauty, bearing gifts That we dared not hope for here in the dark And seeing…

  • Suffering Servant

    Suffering Servant

    This is the third in a series of ekphrastic poems which are a part of a Jesse Tree project for Advent. The painting draws its inspiration from the Suffering Servant who is described in Isaiah 53. The sonnet draws its inspiration from both the passage and the painting. Working with…

  • Grapes

    Grapes

    This is an ekphrastic poem drawing its inspiration from the art of artist, Adah Freeman, who is a member of the congregation in which I minister . She is such a gifted artist and has taken up the theme of grapes from Numbers 13 in which spies are sent into…

  • Slingshot

    Slingshot

    Through the Advent season, I am working with a local artist who is painting abstract pieces which correspond to the sermon series I am preaching on. The first of that series was on the young shepherd David’s defeat of Goliath as found in 1 Samuel 17. In the project, I am…