The Threshing Floor

Poetry Lectionary Poetry – Second Sunday of Advent ( Year C ) December 2, 2024 1:54 pmViews: 1553 Lectionary Poetry Each week we carefully curate a collection of poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary). *** Narrative Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Joel 2:12-13, 28-29 CLASSIC POEM: The Threshing-Floor H.L. Davis See, in a dead vine, How many blackbirds are swinging– the lives there In vines and in dead leaves that need no help of you. Rein your horse into the salal, Davis, follow down The cleared ground, this frosty day, to the threshing-floor. Red is women close together in the broken weeds, Watching the horses: red dresses and blue, Thin cloth of early-day dresses spread among the burrs. Yellow is where the threshing-floor is, and horses’ hoofs Beat the grain-heads into chaff; and cold wind Strews chaff over the bushes and to the eyes. *** This poem is in the public domain, and may be read in a live-streamed worship service. CONTEMPORARY POEM: The Weeping Frederico Garcia Lorca SNIPPET: … I have shut my windows. I do not want to hear the weeping. But from behind the grey walls. Nothing is heard but the weeping. … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]