Welcome to the Abbey’s 64th Poetry Party!
We are making a little departure this month from our usual format where I select an image for you to illuminate with your words.
This month the invitation is to write a poem inspired by your word for the year (and even though that drawing is over, you are still welcome to post your word there – and if you already shared a poem there, please share it again here to have them all gathered together).
I will suggest you make it an acrostic poem which is where each letter of your word forms the first letter of a line of your poem, but all poetic forms are most welcome here. Consider writing a blessing for the year ahead inspired by your word.
Scroll down and add it in the comments section below to share it with the Abbey community. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the invitation on your blog (if you have one), Facebook, or Twitter, and encourage others to come join the party!
On Friday, February 1st I will draw a name at random to win a space in the upcoming online Lenten retreat with St. Hildegard of Bingen.
199 Responses
GENTLENESS
Go softly through each day and night
Even when troubles dim the light
No need to fret and worry so
Trust all will be well as though
Love will show the face of God
Eyes so bright, eyes that nod
Now seize the moment that roils
Ever ready to still our souls
Sooth our minds, our hearts, our all
So quietly we rest on new tilled soil
Maybe a bit late this year.
UTTER
Understand what is happening in the present moment
Think about a gracious response
Talk, speak up, speak out, words too long silent
Evaluate the impact
Receive what is given
P – Prevent me from sliding off the course
slipping not anchored
U – unable to keep my feet on the pathway of stillness
R – Run to me Lord –
S – Scoop me up – carry me to safety where
U – Unstoppable communion and quiet – fill – overflowing full of light
E – Ever increasing grace
P – Prevent me from sliding off the course
slipping not anchored
U – unable to keep my feeton the pathway of stillness
R – Run to me Lord –
S – Scoop me up – carry me to safety where
U – Unstoppable communion and quiet – fill – overflowing full of light
E – Ever increasing grace
I’m new here today. The word that I choose is PURSUE…poem to follow. I am excited about this site and the Abbey.
Blessings –
My word is “obedience,” which I have been struggling with (in more ways than one):
Open my ears so I may listen
Before taking that next best step,
Easing my way into holy presence,
Dancing toward and with Divinity.
I long to have Your guidance now,
Encouraging my faith with Yours,
Never wavering but always seeking
Counsel from the Heart of my heart,
Enriching each precious moment of life.
Presence awareness
Promise that comes through stillness
Restores life a new
Elevated into delight
sensing
Elation
Now to begin
concentrate
Everlasting
Arriving somewhere new
Wonder to behold
Allow the flow
Rivers of life streams in
Everything
Nuances
Essence
Settling
Solidify ..solid…still.
Awareness
Always
Wondering
About
Righteous
Enlightenment
Notice!!!!!!!
Expect!!!!!!!
Subtle
Surprises
Oases of Rest
Only you Lord, know me
All that I am and can be
Sabbath rest you ordain
Entering your peaceful domain
Stillness that calms and heals me.
I learnt much about my word OASES and what I am called to do this year when I struggled to write the poem. Thank you for mini retreat it was a real blessing.
OPEN- HANDED
Box
Tight fist
Rigid, Boundary
Release, let go, receive, gather
New, spacious
Open hand
Vessel