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This resource relating to Psalm 104:24-35 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting infinity as symbolized by the sea and a poem by Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) highlighting intense love and loss as symbolized by leviathan.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
CLASSIC POEM:
As if the Sea Should Part
Emily Dickinson
As if the Sea should part
And show a further Sea—
And that—a further—and the Three
But a presumption be—
Of Periods of Seas—
Unvisited of Shores—
Themselves the Verge of Seas to be—
Eternity—is Those—
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Leviathan
Pablo Neruda
SNIPPET:
Ark of forbearance and anger, derelict
Night of the brute, antarctic outlander.
Nearing or passing me — an ice-field
Displacing the darkness — one day
I shall enter your walls, I shall rear
On the sunken marine of your winter, your armory.
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Year B Day of Pentecost
Date:
Monday, May 13, 2024