Long Ash wednesday Poems

Bang! Bang! Bang! 
The sound of gun shots echoing in the air
Shattering windows and, smashing glasses 
Sending people pouring out in the street
Gun shots penetrating the clouds 
With a message that is very loud

People are...

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Nine years a stranger in a strange land
            travelling to my island in the sun.
A native son returning a native strand
   ...

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These were letters written in tablets of blood
We wrote the pains of yesterday today wittily 
On this seaside of swaying embargo of tablets

She was the song swept in pity and cruelty 
Daring the concubines that...

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Ashes,
Black, gritty, sooty signs
Painted on the foreheads
Of humanity parading about.
My thumb would be black
For several days following
The signing of so many foreheads,
The dark soot engrained
Within my right thumb print.

Ash Wednesday is a magnet
That draws people,...

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Ash Wednesday reminds vain man
That each must slay false pride's ascend.

This day we note a pious practice
Once learnt by rote in simple gist.

Man is mere dust that is alive
In a brief trust, by grace to...

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Special Days
Written: by Tom Wright
4/13/2006

It seems that for almost everything
We’ve set aside a special day.
We recognize others for their work 
And sometimes for their play;

There’s a day set aside for Mothers
And likewise for Fathers too;
I’m...

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Gilded Crosses?

By Mark D. Stucky
Shiny icons gleaming on altars?
        And hanging from necks on gilded chains?
        No. Not back then…

Not golden,...

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Mother won't bleed--
Mother won't bleed again to the breaking song
according to the gospel of insanity of man:
She says life is in the hands of a madman,
she says Sunday is not enough to bless the 
memories...

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The air smell cloudy, 
With a hint of rain. 
Come all this way by trustin’ 
In a thin white cane. 
If a wink is as good as a nod, 
What’s a brotha ta do?
Should Jesus...

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A pleasant cool settles
the ground flecked 
by sunlight drizzling down
through a tall canopy
of trees. A slight wind 
tickles the top leaves
with whispers. 
All seems idyllic.

Yet forty years ago 
on a Wednesday,
fire blasted the bush here
with...

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Priest’s Palette
 
Looking in the mirror over the sun visor of our nine passenger 1959 Ford station wagon, which we really need with six children, Dad says he does not care for Ash Wednesday. ...

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Ash Wednesday, one day to reflect
why Christ our souls would resurrect.	
Good it is to be in accord,
     time spent in fasting and prayer,
     repenting of sin and...

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Lent 

What does it mean?
To take the desert stance
Then walk this path
Of greatest resistance 

To tangle your heart
With the rocks and the snakes
To lie your head down
Where the deceiver wakes 

What is the point?
Of self-denial
To...

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The God Behind the Curtain

By Mark D. Stucky
Curtains sometimes keep apart things that need connecting
and conceal things that, in their time, need uncovering.

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,”
the hiding humbug Wizard of...

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A day of prayer and fasting 
To show the Lord our love is everlasting
We promise to sacrifice a luxury or a pleasure during Lent 
It is forty days well spent 
We will not partake in...

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As many Catholics make a trip to church
on this particular day which marks the beginning –
Lent, in its threshold of another liturgical event,
they wear that smudge on their foreheads.

This calls everyone to a conversion journey
it...

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Finally went to church today-Ash Wednesday
I went for company, communion and to pray
Liked the new people, what priest had to say
I really felt like I was forgiven for sins today

It used to be only God,...

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A Lenten Dirge
 

Ash Wednesday I saw Quinn again,
first time in years, sailing the streets,
weaving through people,
his collar up, his head cocked, his arms
like telephone poles sunk
in the pockets of his overcoat,
the brilliant pennants of...

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Today is Ash Wednesday, a time to reflect 
on how I can be a better Christian 
It is a time to curb the excesses in my life 
not because of deprivation from a church rule...

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Darkest Night, Morning Lights

By Mark D. Stucky
Darkness descends
        upon the rocky land,
        and fills a tomb
     ...

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It’s time to commemorate Jesus’ passion
At the cross for world’s glorious redemption
An opportunity to reflect as Christ’s followers
Unifying in deeper faith to our Almighty Father



March 2,2022 11:50pm
 (Ash Wednesday)



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Lenten Bible Study
 
Deacon Jean and Fr. Farrell will be co-leading a
Lenten Bible study through Zoom on Wednesdays 
during Lent, starting on Ash Wednesday, February 
17, at 10:30 AM. We will be reading together the...

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Ask to know truth as dust funds dust,
Sense a deep feel of joy that binds;
Heed love's sure proof in poise you trust.
Watch how touch heals true face you find,


Etch a pure zest that frames bold...

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stops&steps
   of the mind
fold back
     upon itself
extraneous
    yet within
reverberations
    transcend language
into
   apparent contradictory
       perspectives
otherness
 ...

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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday, the day to confess and repent
As we enter the solemn season of Lent
The ashes remind us that "Dust thou art"
And one day from this world we will depart.

Worldwide, the faithful honor this...

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