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Six Amens for the Sestina
Amen and Amen and Amen… A triolet completes the Sestina like an Amen completes a prayer. This is doubly appropriate since our particular Lenten Sestina writing project was written as a prayer.... Read More
Holy Week Sestina
Easter is mystery — that from death, comes life. Community is mystery — that from the sometimes sketchy attempts at togetherness, comes love, care and belonging. Poetry is mystery too ... Read More
Sestina Settings
Read it back to me It’s a common practice to go back and reread what you’ve written. It helps the writer to see whether the piece is hanging together and whether it flows. For me readi... Read More
Love me into speechlessness
Playing with the Sestina The group sestina project has been intriguing, for the reasons I’ve written about, but the Sestina form itself in also intriguing. At first it was frustrating, because... Read More
The Community of the Sestina
Week Four Stanza What does it mean to pray in community? Does one voice praying as priest best unify the desires of the hearts gathered? Or, is it better for all gathered to pray a written prayer ... Read More
The Sestina at Mid-point
The third whole week of Lent is over, and so the third stanza of the Sestina is complete as well. Writing a poem by yourself is an activity of self indulgence. I can get a little lost, thick in words ... Read More
Lenten Sestina Continued
Bring a balm, a fragrance, to this heart in need of solace and to this body bullied into this unholy pace. Bind up my worries and sorrows. Pour me love’s healing wine. Let my soul draught deep... Read More
Lenten Observance in Community
There are many ways to observe Lent. I’ve tried a few and while it seems wrong to say some were more ‘successful’ than others (successful defined as, ‘I was able to do whatev... Read More
Hummingbird
The first time I spotted a hummingbird perched on the tip of a tall tree, I was mesmerized. I had only ever seen hummingbirds at feeders, or moving from flower to flower. That such a tiny thing wo... Read More