Advent Sunday by Christina Rossetti Behold, the Bridegroom cometh: go ye outWith lighted lamps and garlands round aboutTo meet Him in a rapture with a shout. It may be at the midnight, black as pitch,Earth shall cast up her poor, cast up her rich. It may be at the crowing of the cockEarth shall upheave … Continue reading
Every day I’m still looking for Godand I’m still finding him everywhere,in the dust, in the flowerbeds.Certainly in the oceans,in the islands that lay in the distancecontinents of ice, countries of sandeach with its own set of creaturesand God, by whatever name.How perfect to be aboard a ship withmaybe a hundred years still in my … Continue reading
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want … Continue reading
Sad, sad lover being trueFalling out a window for the viewAll of us laugh, how many of us say?This sky where we live is no place to lose your waySo love, love, love Lose your body and your mindAnd the bitter taste of timeAll of us cry while we should be dancingThis sky where we … Continue reading
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles … Continue reading
Moon now risen, returning new, take my face, this life, with you, give me back the young face, yours, the living face, new-made, rising: O moon, give me the face with which you, having died, return. Moon forever lost to me, and never lost, returning; be for me as you once were that I may … Continue reading
Poems of Faith 