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Poetry

O Risen One: a resurrection prayer

O Risen One, I arise this day and welcome the light that awakens and the breath that sustains. Thank you for the restful darkness, and

Eric Massanari | For Mennonite Church USA

April 1, 2024

Poetry: Noise

Hosannah            a cry of happiness            a joyful noise Hosannah             they do not know, as Jesus does, what is to come Hosannah  

Britt Kaufmann

March 28, 2024

Poetry: Slush

In seasons of ice and slush I spend too much time looking at my feet. Cautious, worried steps in futile attempt to avoid wet feet

A.S. Compton

March 14, 2024

Poetry: Vessels

Creation crunches beneath my toes cool and ripe and grainy mash of nuts, scat, feathers, and pinecones sifting curiosity from what I know in the

Kelsi Folsom

February 29, 2024

Poetry: Elijah at Brook Cherith

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, And bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook.                                                               1

Shari Wagner

February 22, 2024

Poetry: Belief

Belief is the key. Belief, seeps into loam, mists into breath, digs into bones. The blood of terroir creeping into heart is that belief. Each

Annette Gagliardi | For Anabaptist World

February 8, 2024

Poetry: Here we are

Here we are Caught holding the baby Wanting to leave Christmas “up” all year Reveling in the twinkling lights and joyful songs Keeping Jesus as

Carmen Shelly | For Anabaptist World

January 25, 2024

The Light Comes (a poem for Christmastide)

In this markedly darkening season of year, At the dark-boding end of a dark-begun year, As did John in the dark of that long-ago year,

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek | For Anabaptist World

January 11, 2024

Poetry: From an ancient collector of Proverbs, re-dug

FROM AN ANCIENT COLLECTOR OF PROVERBS, RE-DUG             And, regarding Exodus 28:30 Knowing themselves to be seen as black mastodons

Sylvia Gross Bubalo

December 28, 2023

Poetry: Ponder, as Mary

Isaiah prophesies in zealous strokes            of light and pitch. The psalmist, in fevered praise,            declaims the gods of nations

Britt Kaufmann

December 25, 2023

Poetry: Deity Contained

And God scrunched into wee flesh and hunkered down in a lackluster neighborhood, yielded to swaddling clothes, taxes, and humility.             Ocean became a droplet

Joy Versluis

December 14, 2023

Poetry: An almost perfect blessing

For every clouded sunrise Each hang-nailed rainbow The smeared-ink greeting or mangled embrace For the rimmed-out putts The off-centered bullseyes Like near-ripened avocados That are

J.E. Misz

November 30, 2023
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