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This resource relating to Joel 2:23-32 provides poems by H. L. Davis (1894-1960) and Robert Bly (1926-2021) highlighting themes of life and death.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Joel 2:23-32
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:
When Threshing Time Ends
Robert Bly
SNIPPET:
There is a time. Things end.
All the fields are clean.
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Key Scriptures:
Joel 2:23-32
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 25 (Ordinary Time 30)
Date:
Monday, October 17, 2022