Sunday, January 12, 2025

SC Faith Forum Poetry January 12 2025

Here are links to the poems I read today at the South Church Faith Forum:

Church Hour

We Are All Falling

Two Poems Inspired by the Poetry of Matt W. Miller

The Fifth Hexagram: Waiting Is

Play On

Ozymandias In Reverse

Stay Gentle - Brandi Carlile lyrics - substack link 

If you'd like to get these and more in a book form, it's available on Amazon, in a collection that came out in this updated form in 2022: 

Almost Whole: New and Selected Poems (amazon link) 

The newer ones are also on my substack: Mark's LocalPoet Substack

I finished with this poem below, The Advocate. 

This was written back in 1986!

Thanks to everyone for giving me a chance to share these poems. It was a wonderful discussion, a wonderful time talking about poetry and the connections we find in it.

Peace.

The Advocate

When love speaks
It pushes aside harder thoughts
With a soft insistent voice
 
It tells me to listen through the din
To what I’m missing
The quiet cause
That has no lobby
Petitioning for action in its name
Sometimes without ally
 
Years go by unheard
It still speaks to me when I go wrong
 
When love speaks
It teaches me again and again
This forever unfinished lesson
How to be kind
 
1986 West Newton, Mass.

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