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
Surrender
S – Savior God, to You I do surrender
U – Under Your guidance may I always be
R – Rejoicing fills my heart as I ponder God’s love
R – Remember always that you are a precious child of God
E – Each breath and day of life is a precious gift from God
N – Nothing can ever seperate me from God’s love
D – Daily may I be God’s instrument of peace
E – Every moment I will strive to be of service
R – Righteousness reigns in following God
Amen.
FEARLESSLY ~ Intention 2013
F – orgive
E – everything & everyone
A – rms open wide.
R – ejoice!
L – ive; laugh; love
E – everyone & everything.
S – urrender, in order to
S – savor what is & what comes.
L – EAP, and if I dare
Y – owl!!
….I didn’t catch the extra letters not soon enough……Yowl!!
Apparently I need an edit button :)
Indeed, a wonderfully fearless way to live!
:)
FEARLESSLY ~ Intention, prayer and blessing 2013
My word of PEACE :
PEACE beyond all understanding
Envelop me
As I go about my days
Concerned with too much
Except with what matters most…
Peace enveloping ~ it feels like a warm blanket as I imagine it.
STAND
Stand, even though you feel
Timid, and know that you are never
Alone. You have the support of
Nature and are held in the arms of the
Divine.
May you be strengthened as you are held and supported.
Ruminate
Reflection of words and experiences
Understood, and yet
Misconstrued by
Interested adults
Never
Allowing or giving
Time to
Enter into the fullness of knowledge.
I drawn by the unhurried, spacious feel of this.
DELIGHT
This year, may delight fill my life.
May I see everything as:
Divine
Elegant
Light-filled
Inspiring
God-blessed
Holy
Twinkling
Delightful!
I see another Evelyn has written a poem earlier – so I’m adding my last name here on my poem
I’m smiling in response. :)
Relax
Refresh me each day as I learn to let go
Exhaling fully so that I breathe, aware
Laughing as I recognize the joy of presence
Allow me to know my body better
Xenial* then to all that is, all who are.
*hospitable
I feel my body relaxing into your poem’s invitation. Thanks for extending this hospitality to us. :)
Why Did I Get Here?
(acceptance)
Awakening to my past, I realize the
Choices I made
Can’t fully account for the
Extraordinary circumstances of this journey.
Perhaps a more
Telling aspect is the
Ability to persist,
Not just in difficulty, but in sweet oblivion as well.
Can this be true – that the grace of
Existence is all that’s required?
The grace of existence ~ this phrase captures my attention tonight.
Enough
Every day learn to say
No to more than you need. Praise the extra
Ordinary on your most ordinary day.
Urge yourself to dance on
Ground already below your feet.
Hallow yourself, your full heart.
thank you for this lovely poem, Maureen. I am going to post it on my bathroom mirror as I want to see it every day for awhile. Enough truly is enough.
Thank you for your kind and generous words, Diana.
“Urge yourself to dance on ground already below your feet.” I think I shall do so right now. :)