The weather
felt seasonable
the day of All Saints
but today
we are back
to open windows and cats
basking in the sun.
Shadorma #3: 11.03.17
03 Friday Nov 2017
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inThe weather
felt seasonable
the day of All Saints
but today
we are back
to open windows and cats
basking in the sun.
02 Thursday Nov 2017
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inTenacity
The flowers
that hang on until
November
has arrived
still bloom with tenacity
despite the first frost.
01 Wednesday Nov 2017
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inI’ve neglected my blog for many months. To kick myself back into gear, I’m doing 30 days of poetry. This time I’m using a form called shadorma-—a 3/5/3/3/7/5 form. The form can include multiple stanzas, but I will be doing well to create one a day. Here is day one:
Late Bloomer
Three weeks late,
Autumn finally turns
to reveal
in stages
most spectacular color
hidden until now.
25 Sunday Dec 2016
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Merry Christmas, everyone! Today’s Christmas Day hymn is Break Forth o Beauteous Heavenly Light by Johann Sebastian Bach. sung by the Roche Sisters on their We Three Kings album.
24 Saturday Dec 2016
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A song for Christmas Eve—O Holy Night. This carol was written in 1847 by a French wine merchant, Placide Cappeau, and set to music in 1855 by John Sullivan Dwight. The third verse is my favorite, and very timely as we head into a very uncertain 2017 with so much hatred and and sabre-rattling. This, after all, is at the heart of Christmas: “Truly He taught us to love one another, his law is love and his Gospel is peace. Chains shall He break, for the slave is our brother, and in His name all oppression shall cease.”
The version that I chose is from Jon Anderson’s 3 Ships album from 1985, which has been in my Christmas rotation since my oldest brother introduced it to me way back then. Jon is joined by Sandra Crouch for the third, and powerful, verse.
23 Friday Dec 2016
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“Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled
the mighty Gitchi Manitou
sent angel choirs instead”.
The beautiful Huron Carol is sung here by the Cambridge Singers.
22 Thursday Dec 2016
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Tonight’s Christmas song is a hymn that I remember from my childhood. Here Emmylou Harris lends her lovely voice to Oh Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
21 Wednesday Dec 2016
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On the longest night, the night of the Winter Solstice, here’s a song for the first day of winter. Asleep the Snow Came Flying by Tim Story, is from the Windham Hill album, a Winter’s Solstice IV.
21 Wednesday Dec 2016
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The possibility of a white Christmas is in the forecast, so I thought this hauntingly beautiful piece by Loreena McKennitt would be appropriate. Fittingly called Snow, the lyrics evoke the experience of being surrounded by snow fall: the softness, the muted sounds, the whiteness.
“Then all is silent and the snow falls, settling soft and slow.
The evening deepens and the grey
folds closer, earth and sky.
The world seems shrouded, far away.
Its noises sleep, and I,
as secret as yon buried stream,
plod dumbly on and dream.”
19 Monday Dec 2016
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The horizon doesn’t look so bright as we look toward the New Year, so this carol seems appropriate today. “Brightest and Best of the Sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid.” There are many melodies that can be used with these lyrics; this version by Kathy Mattea is a beautiful minor tune.
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