Category: poetry
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O Emmanuel (God With Us)
This is the last in a series of sonnets based upon the Advent prayers, “The Great O Antiphons”. “O Emmanuel” is the last in this series of prayers sung in the liturgy before Christmas Eve and makes up for us the title and first line of the Advent hymn, “O…
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A Gift to Unweary
This is a sonnet about one of those moments when something barely perceptible comes into your awareness, and you are able to stop and receive it as a gift. https://audioboom.com/boos/5098127-a-gift-to-unweary I can hear something underneath the sound Of the congregational response when I realize you’re humming, and I am unwound;…
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The More We Shall Have
C.S. Lewis in his book about love entitled, The Four Loves, writes about the exponential blessing of philia (brotherly love) or “friendship”. In this picture (taken in April 1987) are my friends. Not many have known me longer or more deeply nor have been more patient and enduring. Though I don’t…
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Come to the Table
This sonnet is the fourth in a series on Jesus’ Parable of The Narrow Door. The other three are: The Narrow Door, A New Door, and Levi’s Table. The passage upon which they are based is Luke 13:22-30 which reads, He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching…
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O Dayspring (O Oriens)
This sonnet is based on the the Great O Antiphon, O Dayspring which reads, “O Dayspring splendor of light eternal and sun of righteousness: come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death.” I have used Isaiah 9:2 and Malachi 4:2 to further draw upon for the…
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