Merton Poems - Poems about Merton

...*** Words Vanish *** Words vanish! Disperse — as prayer begun Moves to clear the mind And bare the heart, Swelling the soul to meet Thee With love… Sending on high gratitude’s p......

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...*** Devoted, Choosing to Hold *** Engaged By your spirit; My heart to yours; my heart’s hoping ~ Choosing, Not that long after we met. Completely to embrace you. And you, Losing your h......

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...Life's greatest heated human tragedy the one we are likely taught not to see. Our wide-ranging worlds are well connected, as atoms wiggle we're all effected. Separation is optic illusion a fitti......

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.... for public domain Fourth and Walnut, so fine, so chic, what a place for God to speak, or for that matter, Satan too. Both would like a word or two. So Merton opened up his soul, as if sta......

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... To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us–and He has given us everything. –Thomas Merton, writer and poet In a still, small voice The F......

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...Oh, What Is Life? (Written for Kay Collier McLaughlin-With gratitude to Thomas Merton)——— What? What is life? No concise, assuaging answer comes. For there are no stepping stones outside For a......

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...After a short illness keeping me off Soup, and a 50-year refrain from Prose Poetry, I was inspired by a Thomas Merton talk about Rilke to find the courage for this form again. Shoe Dreams Is th......

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...Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal of awakening that leads to enlightenment? May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery. Nearly forty years ago on July twenty-fifth, working......

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...I love Paul Merton I just wish he'd keep his shirt on.... Stop flexing his pecs In front of Ant n Dec, Even Vladimir Putin shows more respect To the long suffering viewer; Paul:- climb out of ......

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...I'm reading this book about germs and guns and steel and pre-history and human history, predators and prey, and people praying they won't be predatored. You know, light bedtime reading. So......

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...Just As Big A Crook Are all the Republicans; Not release tax returns. Obviously, they are afraid of what tax returns will reveal as well as checking out his relationship with Russia and rele......

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...In order to know and love God as He is, we must have God dwelling in us in a new way, not only in His creative power but in His mercy. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation. Nothing I could d......

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...“It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder.” Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation +++++++++++++++ Dark rain penetrates ten......

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...“….it is a sea of Love which flows through the One Body....” Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation. The sea of Love fills my lungs courses through open fingers warms glowing heart, pul......

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...‘No clock: only the Heart’s blood. Only the word.” “I think poetry must, I think it must, Stay open all night In beautiful cellars” Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours *** High rou......

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