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| Searching... Subject: SPIRITUALITY Matches Found: 147 A BOOK OF DAYS; 10. EPIPHANY, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Text 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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: It began with division Subject(s): Creation; God; Religion; Spirituality; Theology GENESIS: A RETROSPECTIVE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source 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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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's Biography First Line: No angel speaks to me Subject(s): Religion; Spirituality; Theology MUSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 |
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