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This resource relating to Revelation 1:4-8 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson highlighting emotions in nature and a poem by Carolyn Forche highlighting time passing like the clouds.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Revelation 1:4b-8
CLASSIC POEM:
The Sky is low–
the Clouds are mean
Emily Dickinson
The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean.
A Travelling Flake of Snow
Across a Barn or through a Rut
Debates if it will go —
A Narrow Wind complains all Day
How some one treated him
Nature, like Us, is sometimes caught
Without her Diadem.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Clouds
Carolyn Forché
SNIPPET:
A whip-poor-will brushed
her wing along the ground
a moment ago, fifty years
in the orchard where my father
kept pear and plum,
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Revelation 1:4-8
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year B Reign of Christ Proper 29 (Ordinary Time 34)