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Pins à Feuilles Persistantes by Miriam DeSheers-Ives is a poetic journey of faith and hope.✨
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"The floor bedecked / with mop and broom is the prow / of a ship; the old house / sails on into time, towards the promised Land / and under your idle feet swells / the vasty deep you fled." Jean-Pierre Lemaire, trans. Margaret Morrison, "Equipment" in Presence 2025. #presence #faithpoetry
"A theologian / and astrophysicist walk into a bar. / The regulars are entranced by the homespun // conceits they craft for what we long to hear: / we're made of stars;" Mia Schilling Grogan "One Mystery" in Presence 2024. #faithpoetry #presence
"The wind gushes / clouds burst / light passes through the window / and there is nothing but time..." Mildred Rivadeneyra Bello, "Naked Time" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry
"Say a prayer of thanks for galvanized guardrail. / Say a prayer of sixpence. We leave those / we love behind. Words are what we're left with." David Thoreen, "Shuttle" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #snow
"Help us to sing - / Even trees praise, and patterns / Of snow - though it's perilous this / Season, to go where we long to go." Sandra Duguid, "A Christmas Prayer" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry #christmaspoems
"The sky tonight a 64 box of crayons / all of them a shade of dark / so that even the raccoons & rabbits that visit / my yard can't find the garden." Gerry LaFemina "The Abbott of the Order of the Night" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry
"I am terrified / to cast all into the wind and step like a crazed child, / against my nature and all known nature, / against what I think / I know, // in order to / walk onto the wild water toward that most feared / God." Pam Vap, "Of Little Faith" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry
"And I ask, isn't that what we all seek, / mystics, shamans, pastors alike / searching for ways to enter the light / where the world recedes, and another voice is heard." Marion Goldstein, "The Many Ways to Pray" in Presence 2024 #presence #faithpoetry
"I'm practicing how to become pure / oxygen, to stop / the poisonous exhaust / of my own exhaustion." Maria Terrone, "Meditation" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry
"Even if you wear a paper Burger King crown / and proclaim yourself the emperor, // I cherish you, eccentrics of the world. / Nothing dull or drab or lifeless lives in your domain." Geraldine Connolly, "Above the Bored and Spiritless of the World" in Presence 2024. #presence #faithpoetry
"I stood at the edge / of sky, days diminishing / one by one / as if they could not / notice I was there." Lois Marie Harrod, "the light that persists even if (Kevin Young, "Ledge") " in Presence 2024 #presence #faithpoetry
