This month’s LitWyrm Book-a-month challenge is reading poetry. Since April is National Poetry month, we want to celebrate this beautiful form of literature. Whether by picking up a poetry collection, […]
“Ritual and symbol are as necessary to human beings as air and water. They mark us as human, and give us identity.” -Kathleen Norris, 316 In many modern churches, traditions […]
Today is St.Patrick’s Day. A day we wear green to avoid being pinched. The holiday that makes us think of four-leaf clovers, and also the luck of the Irish. When […]
“but love is the sky and I am for you/ just so long and long enough“- E.E. Cummings E.E.Cummings’s poem, “as freedom is a breakfast food” is a poem full […]
“We cry for grief/ a long cry for grief/ America cries for we/ daughters and sons/ growing like grains of wheat in a dry and weary land/ put the tears […]
A Vagabond Song by Bliss Carman There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood— Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a […]
“Well, I went home./ And when I stepped out of my own front door/ when I knew where I was starting from/ I knew then where I was going./ The […]
And I Was Alive by Osip Mandelstam (tr. Christian Wiman) And I was alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear, Myself I stood in the storm of the bird-cherry […]
