poetry
29 August 2008
Adventist Poetry Redux: The Winners Are...
Well it's no secret that Spectrum is a (THE) place for the convergence of Adventism, culture, conversation and the arts. So when I made a call for Adventist poetry, the dozens of original, inspired and inspiring entries that poured in were nothing short of Adventism's finest.
Here are some selected favorites from among the many outstanding poems we received.
20 August 2008
Hit me with your best (Adventist) poetry
A few days ago, Donna Haerich touched off a poetic firestorm with her limericks about gender issues and appointing women to prominent positions in Adventism. Now I’m a sucker for poetry, especially when it is humorous.
12 July 2008
Poetry - Harken To Me, O Shepherd
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Over the Meadow of Life hath the sun awaken
greeting the morrow’s grand splendor.
Around the earth Thy wondrous creation captivateth.
My heart yearns to know this Creator of majesty.
For Thou art the Ruler of the universe without Whom all things cease.
Flowers bloom to praise Thy glory and birds sing of Thy enduring love.
Israel sought to surrender to Thy will,
through bondage and enslavement
and into the Wilderness of Despair.
Like sheep gone astray along the Meadow of Life.
Like Israel of yore, we are bound to our own ways, O Lord.
30 May 2008
A Sabbath Poem | God is Not
God is Not
God is not your grandfather
who looks a little like Santa Claus,
the white beard who never-the-less
knows when you have been naughty or nice.
God is not an over-stuffed teddy bear
good for hugs when you weep
for all that your hands have broken.
Nor is he Thor, sitting on peak of your roof
thunderbolt ready, waiting
for you to mow your lawn on Sabbath.
Nor is he a she—an earth mother
skipping along the road dispensing
cabbages and oranges from her
cornucopia over-flowing
with all things great and small.
To the naked eye PUC looks exactly the way it looked last month and the month before that. Sure maybe a few more flowers have bloomed, but everything is really the same. Except it isn’t. Little ripples of change are always in motion. We are a community of students, of artists, of adults and near-adults in flux.
Amado Nervo, poeta Mexicano del siglo XX, escribió un poema existencialista con profundo significado cristiano. Este poema exalta la libertad de decidir y construir la vida con nuestras propias manos.
Amado Nervo, Mexican poet of the XX century, wrote an existentialist poem with profound Christian meaning. This poem exalts the liberty to decide and build our lives with our own hands.
( March 28th, 2008 )
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Posted March 25th, 2008 by Lainey S. CronkYea, though the 23rd Psalm walks through the valley of a new translation, it shall fear no evil...but it might get carried away in a flash flood of commentary.
Biblical scholar, professor, and author Robert Alter, well known for such works as his translation of the Five Books of Moses and books on the Bible as literature, has delivered another work as both scholar and poet: The Book of Psalms.
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