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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DAYS; 10. EPIPHANY, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last, snow, flocked
Last Line: Its breath that breathes
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


A BOOK OF DAYS; 25. PENTECOST, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun gone for a moment, air
Last Line: Of the word that was, that was to be
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


A SHORT HISTORY OF JUDAIC THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rabbis wrote
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


AD ASTRA: 135, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This living voice within the human will
Last Line: This element that dwells beyond our seeing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Spirituality


AD ASTRA: 144, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O let no momentary joy enslave
Last Line: Can love and lust in such commingling meet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Spirituality; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


AD ASTRA: 145, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O god,-if in the spiritual mood
Last Line: That all our nature yearneth for defeat?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Nature; Spirituality


AD ASTRA: 157, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who, that hath scaled the heights, knows not the hour
Last Line: Before the throne of thrones omnipotent?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


AD ASTRA: 168, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O who can doubt her ministering power
Last Line: Man will look out upon a world of woe!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Faith; Spirituality; Belief; Creed


AD ASTRA: 172, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our passionate conflicts have their day and die
Last Line: Who fervently the selfsame christ profess?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Worship; Theology


AD ASTRA: 85, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: If we would fathom his august decree
Last Line: Because we cannot reason all things clear?—
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Spirituality


AFTER THE FUNERAL, by PAULETTE ROESKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dream confirms it
Last Line: He pulls me up
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


AMARYLLIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: You've seen a cat consume a hummingbird, seen
Last Line: "no contrivance, no gasp, / no dream
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


AMARYLLIS, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've seen a cat consume a hummingbird, seen
Last Line: Where there is no head
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


AMERICAN HEAVEN, by PAUL HOOVER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the century %winds up shopping
Last Line: The blue scent %of mirrors the %speeding world resembles
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


ANNUNCIATION, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surely god thought this would be a moment
Last Line: With hollow, profoundly reluctant eyes
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


ANT HILLS, by PETER MEINKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's true that my soul mea culpa is empty
Last Line: Under god (undercut underground): we can count
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


APPLE SHRINE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last week you gathered armfuls of apple blossoms
Last Line: Our tree will be strung with a rosary of apples
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


ARCH OF SANCTIFICATION, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could use a dove in my heart
Last Line: It's to taunt, to beg them to speak
Subject(s): Arches; Catholics; Churches; God; Religion; Spirituality


AS IF THERE WERE ONLY ONE, by MARTHA SERPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning god pulled me onto the porch
Last Line: And that morning were my first day back
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


AT THE SUMMIT, by ROBERT PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A myriad carven statues
Last Line: Unmelted, unintermittent, %shines forever
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


BANARAS IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THE WORLD, by GEORGE KALAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sadhu carries a lamp to the ganges
Last Line: How might you bathe in the river without getting in?
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lone tern turns in the blowsy wind
Last Line: The tide will have them soon. Moments %are what we have
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


BETWEEN WORLDS, by ADAM CRAIG HILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many mornings I awoke
Last Line: Between one world and another, %and I knew it was important,%and I knew it was impossible
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


BIRTH OF GOD (FROM AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPH), by JAMES RAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first silence, a gas or two, a wind unchallenged
Last Line: As wind and out of reach he wouldn't chase it to the moon
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


BODY AND SOUL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit is a spotless doe that haunts
Last Line: The accusation of her hunted eyes.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Spirituality


BOOK OF DAYS 10, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last, snow, flocked
Last Line: That whimpers that turns that catches %its breath that breathes
Variant Title(s): Epiphan
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


BOOK OF DAYS 25, by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun gone for a moment, air
Last Line: Of the body the tongue of the holiest ghost %of the word that was, that was to be
Variant Title(s): Pentecos
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


CAPELLA, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm standing here in the church
Last Line: At dinner by firelight in this %house we built with our own hands
Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


CHRIST, THE END, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As ghost I returned to them
Last Line: Our knock, fearful. The beginning
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


COAST, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought I found the answer when
Last Line: So elated, darkness hardly mattered
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1956 I was the shepherd boy
Last Line: To be apprehended by all that light
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Religion; Spirituality


DIFFICULT BODY, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A story: there was a cow in the road, struck by a semi
Last Line: I will leave less than this behind me
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Religion; Spirituality


DISEMBODIED SPIRIT, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pure spirit! That within a form of clay
Last Line: And longs to soar away and be at rest %with thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De
Subject(s): Freedom; Heaven; Spirituality


DIVINE WILL, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven hours: late afternoon here, lightning
Last Line: Hand-painted for the orthodox easter
Subject(s): Love; Religion; Romance; Spirituality


DIXIT INSIPIENS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, it was only a trickle
Last Line: If only disbelief was more like faith.
Subject(s): Atheism; Religion; Science; Spirituality; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Scientists; Feminism


DO NOT TRUST IN THESE DECEPTIVE WORDS, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the temple of the lord
Last Line: And yet again, again, we park our cars %and move inside to speak our faith
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


DURER'S APOLLO, by DARRELL BOURQUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When durer drew apollo, he placed him in a light-
Last Line: Bees. Radiant prayer, world where morning never dies
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality; Male-female Relations; Theology


ENIGMA OF THE STIGMA, OR VICE VERSA, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm drawn to the ineffable, yet cathedrals leave me empty
Last Line: Mysteries inviting both penetration and erasure
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Religion; Spirituality


ENOUGH, by LUCIEN STRYK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a restless night, dreams
Last Line: Van gogh found solace in sunflowers
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


EXODUS, by JARRET KEENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pillar of cloud by day
Last Line: Pillar of fire by night
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


FAITH, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mom told me how she 'worked on' hers
Last Line: God have mercy on me!' and there is none
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


FAITH IN FLORIDA, by MARTHA SERPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: First month in florida I couldn't get used
Last Line: The signs we know have been there all along
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


FATHER HUCKLEBERRY AT SEATTLE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, I'm takin' in seattle
Last Line: Cause they feel their growin' pains!
Subject(s): Clergy; Sea Voyages; Seattle, Washington; Spirituality; Travel; West (u.s.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Journeys; Trips; Southwest; Pacific States


FINISHING TOUCH, by MARTHA SERPAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ever since the painter depicted
Last Line: Hand - hers alone - that will close these eyes
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


FOR JUDE THE OBSCURE, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I am brought so low
Last Line: Pitiless, rolling over us
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It began with division
Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality; Theology


GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It began with division
Last Line: But there'd always be incarnations, innuendos
Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality


GENTLE COMMUNION, by PAT MORA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the long-dead are willing to move
Last Line: Our own private green honey
Subject(s): Language; Memory; Spirituality; Words; Vocabulary


GOD, by MAXINE CHERNOFF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God is in the high notes'
Last Line: Tiny stars becoming galleons, %becoming moods
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


GOD LOVINGLY COUNTERATTACKS, by JARRET KEENE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happy-go-lucky and lazy. We took things
Last Line: Our souls? %scraped clean
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


GOD'S CUT-OFF TV SCREEN'S VANISHING MIRROR SEEMS AN UNSHARED POINT, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unlike talk, like prayer, this mist unravels
Last Line: Prayer to flesh, %this mortal form
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


GREED, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I tell the truth about what I want
Last Line: I have dug and dug without once %striking oil
Subject(s): Soul; Spirituality


HEAVENLY, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are potted at night, pink, and packed with
Last Line: From michigan quarterly review
Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Spirituality; Theology


HELL, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology


HELL, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette
Last Line: The least weird guy you know
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality


HISTORY, by LUCIEN STRYK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burst of passion skims
Last Line: Waited to steal their gold
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


HOLIDAY, SELS, by SUSAN HAHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother, two days ago he left
Last Line: For any hope of pollen
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


HOLLOW, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years we scavenged among the dark sands
Last Line: No one has adored language more than we did then
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


HOST, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father's body is the narrow grave
Last Line: Pressed to the sternum of the world
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


I AM NOT AN AMAZON-A WARRIOR, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nor am I a mother
Last Line: I am a starry child, a woman in love
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


I SHALL BE GOD, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: God is spirit
Last Line: And god is all.
Subject(s): Angels; God; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology


ICONOCLASTS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are those who would silence the thrush
Last Line: Comes the luminous face of christ!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Theology


IDENTIFYING WITH THE BUDDHA, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We forget, praising his lotus feet, that he named his son rahula
Last Line: From michigan quarterly review
Subject(s): Buddhism; Religion; Spirituality; Buddha; Buddhists; Theology


ILLUMINATION, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if some monk bored
Last Line: Brother, come %with us, come home
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T.
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


IN THE THEATRE, by PAULETTE ROESKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: By degree the lights go down
Last Line: Resurrects the world again
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


INDIAN THINGS, by MARK TURCOTTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How come you don't write more about eagles
Last Line: Me and other indian things
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


JACK IN THE BOX, by KO WON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jack at jack in the box
Last Line: And the I, etc. In the box
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


KACHINAS, by CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are the ancient essence of the world
Last Line: Embracing sacred dark and starry shield
Subject(s): Native Americans; Presence; Spirituality


KEPLER'S VISION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the clear, bright, northern sky
Last Line: The truths that yet shall be revealed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Immortality; Spirituality


LAMPS ARE BROUGHT IN, by GEORGE KALAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother kali, the destroyer, is the giver
Last Line: Twice about before seasoning the lamb
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


LES MAINS DU DIEU (AFTER A LINE IN DAIGREPONT'S CAJUN SPIRITUAL), by JACK B. BEDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last word I can picture you saying to me
Last Line: Mettez votre vie dans les mains du bon dieu
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


LIFE EVERLASTING, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the foot of the wall
Last Line: Sickened me after the methodists' %easter services
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


LIGHT, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning when I first notice
Last Line: I am in again, and swimming
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


LITANY, by DANA GIOIA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a litany of lost things
Last Line: Even as it vanishes - were not our life
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


LITTLE ROUND, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My fool asks: do the years spell a path to later
Last Line: What have I done with my god?
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


MARTYRDOM, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Without, the lonely night is sweet with stars
Last Line: The peak still glimmers: thrill, my spirit, thrill!
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Spirituality; Paradise; Judaism


MERCY, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small flames afloat in a blue duskfall, beneath trees
Last Line: Death after death, around the far, awakening bend
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


MERCY, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small flames afloat in a blue duskfall, beneath trees
Last Line: Death after death, around the far, awakening bend
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


MUSE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No angel speaks to me
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


MUSE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No angel speaks to me
Last Line: Of space, angels could be hiding
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


MY PRAYER, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: May it ever be said of the one that was I
Last Line: She gallantly reached for her star.
Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Spirituality; Theology


MY SPIRIT-HOME, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I come, I come from my spirit-home
Last Line: In the freedom and peace of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Sickness; Spirituality; Illness


NATIVITY, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark, a child might ask, what is the world?
Last Line: Before so strange and wild a guest %as god approaches
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


NOAH, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You have begun to wonder, a glass world
Last Line: Can feel like a straitjacket
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


OLD WOMEN FISHING FROM BRIDGES, by DARRELL BOURQUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something about dropping a line into the unseen
Last Line: But old women fishing from bridges fish mostly just %for fish
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


PENANCE AND THE WORK WEEK, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: By woundsday when a tongue-pierced asian
Last Line: Best is they too pass as a dream
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


PENTECOST, by DANA GIOIA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither the sorrows of afternoon, waiting in the silent house
Last Line: I offer you this scarred and guilty hand %until others mix our ashes
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


PETIT MAL, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is how, perhaps
Last Line: We're stunned each time to wear
Subject(s): God; Reason; Religion; Spirituality


PIETA, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mother and her son tug
Last Line: Shoved, for heaven's sake, into the ovens
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


POET IS LIKE A CHURCH, by DAVID STARKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet is like a church, an abandoned one
Last Line: His conference paper wearing wraparound shades
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


PSALM BEFORE SLEEP, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Except for my body, who accompanies me
Last Line: This is the poem my words never bring back
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


PURITAN WAY OF DEATH, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How hard this life is hallowed by the body
Last Line: Which is redundant, awful, endless, and ours
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


QUARTET, by LEONARD EDWARD NATHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cello never made it, lost
Last Line: In the absence of another
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


RADIANCE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always that forgiving paranoia
Last Line: Tracery of ordinary branches
Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


REACH, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we heard the tree hum
Last Line: Of high flung music and earthliness
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


RELIGION, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First, it was more about mystery than about trying to get us to
Last Line: Portobellos, but I was listening with that other, my neediest ear
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


RESURRECTION, by NICOLE COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my story the sisters forecast bad weather
Last Line: You cast before you disappeared forever-your punishment, %life everlasting
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


RESURREXI, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: From the throne of life eternal
Last Line: Like an amulet of safety, to your heart forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Angels; Mortality; Prayer; Spirituality


SAINTS: 9. CASH OR TURTLE OR HEAVEN, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just beyond that big sign for ebenezer church?
Last Line: Goddamned bastards out of there, I say and believe
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SEGOVIA, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shadow in the shiny pilot's jacket
Last Line: Paradox must have no vagaries
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SHADOWLAND, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: One by one the flakes are falling
Last Line: "vacant will be shadowland."
Subject(s): Ghosts; Shadows; Spirituality; Supernatural


SHADOWS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shadows are inverted souls
Last Line: The shadow of a word is an echo
Subject(s): Death; Shadows; Soul; Spirituality


SHINY ALUMINUM GOD, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the pilgrimage
Last Line: An angel flapping in the cage
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SHORELESS BATH A FABULOUS BOAST, by BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a dowry like a razzle-dazzle
Last Line: In matter press out their shore
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SHORT HISTORY OF JUDAIC THOUGHT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rabbis wrote
Last Line: But aren't all our houses %burning?
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SISTER BEATRICE, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity me, lady: me about to fall
Last Line: [the nuns fall on their knees around the bed of beatrice.
Subject(s): Legends - Dutch; Religion; Spirituality; Theology


SOLOMON SCHECHTER, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another moses of our race
Last Line: You found the manuscript of god.
Subject(s): Schechter, Solomon (1847-1915); Jews; Spirituality; Judaism


SONG OF SURRENDER, by SALEEM PEERADINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hold me close
Last Line: History has already written us
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SOUL AS A BODY, by CHARD DENIORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a body inside the body
Last Line: In all things. That cannot live without you
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.., by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He couldn't say it or write it or sign it or give it a name
Last Line: His small star would someday pass close to him but not yet.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Religion; Spirituality; Nativity, The; Theology


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one
Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night.
Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology


SPARE TIRE, by IVAN URQUIZA-VICENTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've intended to be harder, to refuse your body in the %storms
Last Line: I still hate you in the contemporary, freudian way
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


SPIRIT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To live unseen and yet behold the earth
Last Line: I shed the flesh awhile, becoming mind.
Subject(s): Spirituality


ST. JACOB'S CHURCH OF THE HANGING HAND, by JAMES RAGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He believed that touch
Last Line: Should the statue move, all tombs will open
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


STIGMATA, by MAXIMILIAN ALEXANDROVICH VOLOSHIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose the flying hands, about me shedding
Last Line: On the pierced palms of these outstretched hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerienko-voloshin, Maximilian Alexandrovich; Voloshin, Ma
Subject(s): Russia; Spirituality; Soviet Union; Russians


STILL DARK WHEN WE FILE LIKE CHILDREN OUT ON THE TURF, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet our hymn is for the beauty of the earth
Last Line: We end with this our hymn of grateful praise
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS, by LI-YOUNG LEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I draw a window %and a man sitting inside it
Last Line: Light and moment in a wilderness %of who? Where?
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


TANTUM ERGO, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What here redeems us? Surely
Last Line: Miserere lapping [or, laps] like the tide
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


TAP, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love to find a door. Like the spinal tap
Last Line: How it comes, the brain's clear bath
Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Religion; Spirituality


TERESA, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say darkness, say light. The eagle
Last Line: Scripture falling across the snow
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T.
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


TESTAMENT, by SALEEM PEERADINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider my state: what I am
Last Line: Second flood its chambers %with blinding sight
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


THE APPLE SHRINE, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last week you gathered armfuls of apple blossoms
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking
Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language.
Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man counts the seconds between lightning and thunder to
Last Line: Smell of solder at the junction of earth and sky.
Subject(s): Death; God; Lightning; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Theology; Oratory; Orators


THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long
Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys


THE CHILD-ANGEL'S RETURN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child-angel came down from her home in high heaven
Last Line: "at the longest, my dear ones, it cannot be long."
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Death, Return From; Heaven; Spirituality; Death - Babies; Paradise


THE FAR BLUE HILLS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I lift my eyes and ye are ever there
Last Line: O far blue hills.
Subject(s): Hurricanes; Spirituality; Titans (mythology)


THE HOLE IN THE SEA, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's there
Last Line: The driest thing there is.
Subject(s): Courage; Language; Religion; Sea; Secrets; Spirituality; Story-telling; Valor; Bravery; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Ocean


THE HOLY FLAME, 'MENORAH', by GEORGE JAY HOLLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou sacred flame, so mellow and subdued
Last Line: "and breathe with god: ""let there be light."
Subject(s): God; Jews; Light; Spirituality; Synagogues; Judaism


THE LITANY, by DANA GIOIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a litany of lost things
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


THE PURITAN WAY OF DEATH, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How hard this life is hallowed by the body
Last Line: She reminds us always of this death, this life, which is redundant, awful, endless, and ours
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology


THE SPIRIT AND THE CUP, by A. E. ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And didst thou drink the brimming cup / I gave thee?'
Last Line: "not I have done this thing, but thou,"" said he."
Subject(s): Holy Ghost; Spirituality; Holy Spirit


THEOLOGY, by RICHARD NEWMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't believe in god but gravity'
Last Line: A kiss against the endless blue sky
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE BODY WITHIN THE BODY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When life like a ghastly panorama stretches before the eye of the spirit
Last Line: And the source of all the light in the universe.
Subject(s): Bodies; Religion; Soul; Spirituality; Theology


TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house is brown, a simple framed structure
Last Line: Traveling over a great distance at a spirited pace
Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spirituality; Women - Bible


TRANSPARENCIES, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a stone disk palette from ancient america
Last Line: Remains to light them on their solitary journey
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


TRANSPORT OF THE DEAD, by GAYLORD BREWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The only official method, of course
Last Line: Of secrets, of camels and angels and earth's molten core
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


VESPERS, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now it is evening, the light rushes to fall
Last Line: Like even one, without it gone
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


VISION OF SALT & WATER, by J. J. BLICKSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He dreamt that his ear was a small africa
Last Line: The angel his dresser, the water the gossip in the natural %pitch
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


WHAT SPIRIT?, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What spirit do I house?
Last Line: Within the silence of the seed.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Rest; Spirituality; Dead, The


WHAT WE BELIEVE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus was not the son of god. He was a yogi
Last Line: Everything worked better in the golden age
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


WINGSPUN, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mornings she descended the stairs and waited by the stove
Last Line: Lingering among the trees
Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Spirituality


WORLD, by ALICE JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: My ears echo too loudly
Last Line: It doesn't take much %to make music
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


WOUNDED ANGEL, by ROBERT PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It fell like a stone from the sky
Last Line: We hoped to god it might be so
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality


YEARNING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My soul has a sigh to be free
Last Line: In the happiest moments of yearning.
Subject(s): Freedom; Soul; Spirituality; Liberty


YOU KEEP COMING UPON YOUR BREATH AT THE ALTAR, by GEORGE KALAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Has he walked away from the temple? Has he taken
Last Line: Two rupees should be enough to tell you you're still alive
Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality