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This resource relating to Psalm 68 provides a poem by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) celebrating life and a poem by Ross Gay highlighting the beauty of music.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Psalm 68:1-10;32-35
CLASSIC POEM:
Joy
Carl Sandburg
LET a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
And take it when it runs by,
As the Apache dancer
Clutches his woman.
I have seen them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent on singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the ribs
With a terrible love.
Joy always,
Joy everywhere–
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from the little deaths.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
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CONTEMPORARY POEM:
A Poem in which I Try
to Express My Glee
at the Music My Friend
Has Given Me
Ross Gay
SNIPPET:
Because I must not
get up to throw down in a café in the Midwest,
I hold something like a clownfaced herd
of bareback and winged elephants
stomping in my chest,
I hold a thousand
kites in a field loosed from their tethers
at once …
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Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Seventh Sunday of Easter
Date:
Monday, May 15, 2023