Welcome to our Poetry Party!
I select an image and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there.
Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you have one), Facebook, or Twitter, and encourage others to come join the party! (If you repost the photo, please make sure to include the credit link and link back to this post inviting others to join us).
We began this month with a Community Lectio Divina practice with a passage from the Ash Wednesday reading from the Prophet Joel and followed up with our Photo Party. We continue this theme in our Poetry Party this month. What does the image above evoke for you? Express this through poetry.
You can post your poem either in the comment section below*or you can join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there.
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8 Responses
Such wonderful poetic responses here! Thank you dear monks for blessing us with your words.
33 Lines and This Sacred Chalice?
That We Share
So maybe ––
after so many passages
?through the stone archways of time?
and up one grassy slope or another ––
maybe, even still, it is true
that there will be love
because Love
?is all there is.
?And more:??
Somewhere, perhaps ––
?in fields of lavender or a forest ?
of barren trees bursting full with light ––
will come a moment of radiance, transcendent?
and the stunning realization that, maybe,
even as I searched everywhere, passing
?through a thousand doors in time,
?turning the world upside down,
turning myself inside out,
giving my whole heart
?to follow, follow you, ?
you were with me
?all the while and I
now, here,
with you. ??
So maybe —
standing still in the clearing
?in the breath between what’s next?
and the miracle heartbeat of this now ––
maybe, even still, it is true?
that I am held in love
because Love
is who I am.
And more:
An invitation
Open arms welcoming
Come in – follow me
Trust
Follow your heart
Have faith believe
In the universe
In yourself.
open ~ trust ~ listen
walk through ~ walk in ~ your heart waits
home calling ~ say yes ~
aho! thank you community ~
Gray
Heavy, dark, unyielding.
Once safe shelter where I could hide,
eyes closed
licking my wounds.
But now an obstacle
Streaked red with witness to my blind searching
for….what?
Stillness
Whispered memory of sight
Unlocks the knot of lash and tear
Revealing the invitation
To enter the sacred mystery
And dance !
‘Stand at the crossroads and look,
Ask for the ancient paths….’
Across the threshold
Mystery beckons
I want to live the questions
but do not yet know
what to ask….
Lost
Alone
Broken
Wandering
A wilderness of pain
Not much left
Turning to weep
A pool of tears growing
Reflected on its surface the moon
Looking up
A path
A narrow entrance
An invitation
Walking slowly
Bringing what is left
this broken heart
To you is given
I return