When Poets Pray

When Poets Pray PDF

Author: Marilyn McEntyre

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1467456888

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Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses—and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent and the deeply, comfortingly familiar. When Poets Pray contains thoughtful meditations by Marilyn McEntyre on choice poems/prayers and poems about prayer. Her beautifully written reflections are contemplative exercises, not scholarly analyses, meant more as invitation than instruc¬tion. Here McEntyre shares gifts that she herself has received from poets who pray, or who reflect on prayer, believing that they have other gifts to offer readers seeking spiritual companionship along our pilgrim way. POETS DISCUSSED IN THIS BOOK Hildegard of Bingen Lucille Clifton Walter Chalmers Smith Robert Frost Wendell Berry Joy Harjo John Donne Gerard Manley Hopkins Said Marilyn McEntyre George Herbert Thomas Merton Denise Levertov Scott Cairns Mary Oliver Marin Sorescu T. S. Eliot Richard Wilbur Francisco X. Alarcon Anna Kamienska Michael Chitwood Psalm 139:1-12

Twenty Poems to Pray

Twenty Poems to Pray PDF

Author: Gary M. Bouchard

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0814664946

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Drawing from the poetry of generations of esteemed writers Gary Bouchard shows how poems often express the longings of the human heart as a kind of prayer. Emily Dickinson, Rev. Rowan Williams, Pope John Paul II, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, and Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB, among others, offer readers an inspiring path to reflect upon and pray with poetic verse. Arranged under six engaging themes, each selection uses the words of poets as vehicles to prompt “heaven in ordinary” or to praise like “exalted manna”; to find the right “paraphrase” for your own soul or maybe sense your “soul’s blood”; to muster up from your grief or anger “reversed thunder” or dare to articulate from your own personal anguish “Christ-side-piercing spear.”

Prayers of a Young Poet

Prayers of a Young Poet PDF

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781612616414

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This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. As Rilke here writes, "I love the dark hours of my being, for they deepen my senses." Translated by Mark S. Burrows.

After Prayer

After Prayer PDF

Author: Malcolm Guite

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1786222108

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This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.

Poets at Prayer

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Author: Sister Mary James Power

Publisher:

Published: 1938

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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"The attitude toward religion of some of the generally acknowledged leaders in contemporary English and American poetry." --Pref.

Just Pray!

Just Pray! PDF

Author: Joretta Klepfer

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Published: 2006-12

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1598865099

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'Good morning, Lord.' A simple beginning to the day with amazing results. What more does God ask of us than to be in relationship with him? Prayer is the foundation of that relationship. JUST PRAY! A Book of Poetic Prayers and Prayerful Poems, grew out of intentional time set aside for God each day. The unique style is an eclectic mixture of rhyming and free verse, sometimes both within the same poem. JUST PRAY! reveals the deep faith and personal relationship the reader will sense between the author and her Lord. It becomes a profound witness to the possibility of the same relationship happening for the reader.

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well

Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well PDF

Author: Maya Angelou

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0307833267

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This collection of thirty-six poems is, once again, eloquent evidence of Maya Angelou's continuing celebration of life: Here are poems of love and memory; poems of racial confrontation; songs of the street and songs from the heart.

Saved by a Poem

Saved by a Poem PDF

Author: Kim Rosen

Publisher: Hay House, Inc

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1401926762

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Can someone really be saved by a poem? In Kim Rosen’s book, the answer is a re­sounding "Yes!" Poetry, the most ancient form of prayer, is a necessary medicine for our times: a companion through difficulty; a guide when we are lost; a salve when we are wounded; and a conduit to an inner source of joy, freedom, and insight. Whether you are a lover of poetry or have yet to discover its power, Rosen offers a new way to experience a poem. She encourages you to feel the poem as you might an affirmation or sacred text, which can align every level of your being. In an uncertain world, Saved by a Poem is an emphatic call to cultivate the ever-renewable resources of the heart. Through poetry, the unspeakable can be spoken, the unendurable endured, and the miraculous shared. Weaving teaching, story, verse, and memoir, Rosen guides you to find a poem that speaks to you so you can take it into your life and become a voice for its wisdom in the world. Inspirational audio download included! Featuring the voices of well-known authors reading a favorite poem and discussing its personal significance: Joan Borysenko, Andrew Harvey, Jane Hirshfield, Marie Howe, Grace Yi-Nan Howe, Robert Holden, Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Lesser, Thomas Moore, Christiane Northrup, Cheryl Richardson, Kim Rosen, and Geneen Roth.

Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night

Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night PDF

Author: Jeanie Gushee

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2012-10-29

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 084996413X

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Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night gives a framework for prayerful devotions with a morning and evening prayer for each day of the year. The prayers have been selected to reflect the seasons and the liturgical calendar. They are intended not to replace your personal, spontaneous prayers but to serve as a springboard for them. Editors Jeanie and David Gushee have collected inspiring contributions from Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox sources; from all continents; from the Old Testament; and from each century of Christian history. Yours Is the Day, Lord, Yours Is the Night will enhance your commitment to God and personal connection to the Christian tradition and the Church universal.

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