Requiem for Myself ~ Poem Video: A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Requiem for Myself When I die plant a pinwheel in an open field where winter’s wind and rain march forcefully across in battalions, and you can stumble out there to meet me one late afternoon when you feel the world must surely be ending. You, soaked from tears and storms, kinship with dark sky. Me, […]
Easter Blessings + Take My Hand (new poetry video) ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Take My Hand Please don’t plant me neat rows of rosebushes and tulips at attention, no manicured gardens or crystal vases of cut stems. Instead, take my hand, lead me onto rain-softened grass which undulates like a boat on a summer lake, lie down with me in a quilt of sunlight and shadows among yellow […]
Featured Poet: Dorothy Walters
We are launching a new series this spring with poets whose work we love and want to feature! Our next poet is Dorothy Walters whose work is deeply inspired by sacred ecstasy and “the Beloved Within.” You can hear Dorothy reading her poem “The Transition” below and read more about the connections she makes between poetry and […]
Featured Poet: Laurie Klein
We are launching a new series this spring with poets whose work we love and want to feature! Our next poet is Laurie Klein whose work is deeply inspired by mystery and the healing that comes from courting holy disruption. You can hear Laurie reading her poem “How to Live Like a Backyard Psalmist” below and read […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Beverly Dame
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Beverly Dame’s reflection on living by and leaving the river. For five years, I lived on the bank of a small Canadian river. For someone who had always been a city-dweller even […]
Featured Poet: Susan Millar DuMars
We are launching a new series this spring with poets whose work we love and want to feature! Our next poet is Susan Millar DuMars whose work is deeply inspired by the fragility of the human body and the yearning for God. You can hear Susan reading her poem “Undiscovered” below and read more about the connections […]
Monk in the World Guest Post: Michelle Kobriger
I’m delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World Guest Post Series from the community. Read on for Michelle Kobriger’s reflection on the artist and beginning again. Winter came on hard and fast this year, the colorful autumnal display fading quickly to brown. Days of wind and rain stripped the trees, […]