Best Liturgies Poems

Eternal God knows we men are not only spiritual
Also bodily creatures
Need signs
Symbols to perceive
Describe spiritual
Interior realities

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I'm going through my morning routine
still at least half asleep,
pondering what was I pondering?
while preparing morning meds
and showering my daughter,
helping her dress,
filling her snack pail
for her long school bus ride,
changing my son's overnight diaper,
lotioning ashy skin,
tying shoe laces,
hers, mine, ours,
feet walking onto the bus,
hooking all...

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If dawn invites grace-filling abundance,
what dual horizon limits sunset?

Awake each morning
with or without alarm.
What promise waits
to unfold this liturgical dance
across our day's embracing stage?

Thought of sunset,
even this next one.
Too soon arrived?
Or will dark never arrive
to say goodnight?
Farewell,
aloha dawn and sunset
framing today's fancy form-exhausting dance.

Which background...

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You arrived like dusk—
not falling, but folding the sky inward,
your body a benediction
I knelt to translate.

No prayer passed my lips,
only the hush of devotion,
tongue pressed to the scripture
written in your trembling.

And when you opened—
not like a door,
but like dusk releases the bloom
too shy for daylight—
I...

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