Mary Oliver – heavily influenced by the Summer Devotions saltproject.org efforts
- The Summer Day (Joan S.; including fabulous last lines: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”)
- Summer Poem
- Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer
- On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145)
- “to be God’s mind’s servant” (includes commentary on good vs. sinful)
- entering – and maybe helping prepare? – heaven’s beauty here on earth, “right here, right now” (nature references abound)
- WOW – #7 is an aspirational goal, isn’t it!?!?
- Matthew 6:25-34 NIV references
- Logos (Marianne B.)
- Just a Minute (Marianne B.)
- I Worried
- Benjamin-who-came-who-knows-where
- Messenger “a mouth with which to give shouts of joy”
Article:7 Surprising Benefits of Reading Poetry
Howard Thurman
Ada Limon – Wonder Woman (Peter Rueh.)
Brian Doyle – The Best Poem Ever (Joan S.)
Pádraig Ó Tuama Poetry Unbound HERE
Comes the Dawn – Veronica Shorffstall (Marianne B shared) – – “decorate your own soul”
Judy Sorum Brown – The Trough (Marianne B shared) – – similarity with Transitions book
Maya Angelou – Still I Rise
Corrie ten Boom – Life is But a Weaving (Tapestry Poem)
Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken
Langston Hughes – Dreams
Rudyard Kipling – If (click on the oral recitation of this one – very impactful!)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- De Profundis (XXIII in particular, referenced from Grama Hettie’s devotional)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John O’Donohue
Rumi
Father’s Day – from MWPC poetry group
- That Man Is a Success – By Robert Louis Stevenson
- He Is Gone – by David Harkins
A Friend’s Greeting – Edgar Albert Guest
Retriever – by Barbara Crooker (thanks Marilyn!)
John Donne
Waldo Williams – “The Peacemakers” on p. 1199 in Celtic Daily Prayer: Book Two
Bruce Cockburn song lyrics
Gerard Manley Hopkins – God’s Grandeur (Marianne B. – seen in Ross D. “Believe”)