Dockery And Son (Philip Larkin Poem)
'Dockery was junior to you, Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.' Death-suited, visitant, I nod. 'And do ...
'Dockery was junior to you, Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.' Death-suited, visitant, I nod. 'And do ...
Who cleaned up the Last Supper? These would be my people. Maybe hung over, wanting desperately a better job, standing ...
Dear Condor: Much thanks for that telephonic support from North Carolina when I suddenly went ape in the Iowa tulips. ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
a starling sat on the roof (i don't know how young) croaking in an old man's voice cross with the ...
All of us welcome at the feet of Jesus all of us called to come before God The example of ...
So many of the powerful the leaders of the people unable to believe this was the Christ the babe, the ...
Maybe in our squirming our discomfort in the scripture our hearing the words of Christ and measuring them, truthfully, against ...
Not some abstract lesson a recitation of the law the question of the lawyer needing to a parable a real-life ...
watching the skies, the signs the light of Christ shining for those who would see His star rising, seeing from ...
hope, our faith alive within this season waiting for the coming of our King victory over death no more holding ...
Like Mary, like Joseph the shepherds and the wise men called to Bethlehem to see the savior's birth Traveling, waiting ...
Trapped, led astray hostage to society living beyond our needs beholden to another master kept from our father our lives ...
A lesson in those early words after the spirit descended on them not a sermon or words to teach his ...
Trying to change the discussion, to force him to agree to admit that torture, any torture, was justified that the ...
Divisions, difference, distinctions to separate, not of God's hands, human barriers invisible walls, of race, gender, of color, of culture ...
Walls broken down, doors opened history, law, traditions, rules broken throughout the text, change station, rank, divisions ignored sharing his ...
That day, those days after in the cool of history visible now moments of unity, of resolve frittered away, lost ...
There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart, Saying "Skimble where is Skimble ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
We'd rather have the iceberg than the ship, although it meant the end of travel. Although it stood stock-still like ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight ...
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and ...
Chaos ruled OK in the classroom as bravely the teacher walked in the nooligans ignored him hid voice was lost ...
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