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Words Vanish
...*** 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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Sally Eslinger
Categories:
merton,
christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form:
Free verse
Devoted, Choosing To Hold
...*** 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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Sally Eslinger
Categories:
merton,
character, christian, health, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Illusion of Separateness
...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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Greg Gaul
Categories:
merton,
allusion, humanity, philosophy, science,
Form:
Couplet
Fourth and Walnut
.... 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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William Coyne
Categories:
merton,
religion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Power of Silence
... 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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Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
merton,
silence,
Form:
Free verse
Oh, What Is Life:
...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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Sally Eslinger
Categories:
merton,
appreciation, blessing, christian, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Shoe Dreams
...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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Sally Eslinger
Categories:
merton,
art, body, christian, dance,
Form:
Prose
Intersection of Interbeing
...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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Greg Gaul
Categories:
merton,
inspirational, memory, mystery, myth,
Form:
Free verse
National Treasures No 2 Paul Merton
...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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Huw Sherlock
Categories:
merton,
appreciation, humorous, men, social,
Form:
Light Verse
Kleptocracy
...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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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
merton,
change, growth, health, history,
Form:
Political Verse
Just As Big a Crook
...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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James Horn
Categories:
merton,
allegory, analogy, anger,
Form:
Haiku
Communion Sound Bites
...Spiritual Communion is about Agape, about Sacred CoEmpathy about Yin’s Love, which is Erotic Yang fertility Love of deeply dense nutrition, but disembodied, implicate (David Bohm) concave rathe......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
merton,
earth, health, humor, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Mercy and Love
...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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Steven Federle
Categories:
merton,
anger, forgiveness, love,
Form:
Free verse
Life Itself
...“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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Steven Federle
Categories:
merton,
creation, god, life, night,
Form:
Haiku
The Sea of Love
...“….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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Steven Federle
Categories:
merton,
children, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
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