Posts Tagged "Earth"

Skunk Hour

For Elizabeth Bishop Nautilus Island’s hermit heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above the sea. Her son’s a bishop. Her farmer is first selectman in our village, she’s in her dotage. Thirsting for the hierarchic privacy of Queen Victoria’s century, she buys up all the eyesores facing her shore, and lets them fall. The season’s ill– we’ve lost our summer millionaire, who seemed to...

The Moose

For Grace Bulmer Bowers From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea twice a day and takes the herrings long rides, where if the river enters or retreats in a wall of brown foam depends on if it meets the bay coming in, the bay not at home; where, silted red, sometimes the sun sets facing a red sea, and others, veins the flats’ lavender, rich mud in burning rivulets; on red,...

A Prayer For Peace (A. J. Muste)

A Prayer For Peace Lord, thou has been our dwelling-place in all generations; before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the Earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. We come to thee in a day of confusion and anguish; in a time when terror walks at night about the Earth and destruction wastes at noonday.  Nevertheless, we are not dismayed or as those who have no hope.  For we know...

God The Artist

God, when you thought of a pine tree, How did you think of a star? How did you dream of the Milky Way To guide us from afar? How did you think of a clean brown pool Where flecks of shadows are? God, when you thought of a cobweb, How did you think of dew? How did you know a spider’s house Had shingles bright and new? How did you know the human folk Would love them like they do? God, when you patterned a bird song, Flung on a...

A Christian Prayer In Union With Creation

Father, we praise you with all your creatures. They came forth from your all-powerful hand; they are yours, filled with your presence and your tender love. Praise be to you! Son of God, Jesus,through you all things were made. You were formed in the womb of Mary our Mother, you became part of this Earth, and you gazed upon this world with human eyes. Today you are alive in every creature in your risen glory. Praise be to you! Holy...