![]() This is probably yet another stereotype resulting from the anthropological traits of judgement, which became entrenched and captured the Western imaginary. There is a widespread impression that the Greeks are a happy people. * Part of a general research project on Sub-modernity in Contemporary Culture in Greece. : Vlassis Caniaris, Untitled (Mailbox), 1965, Vlassis Caniaris Archive Select Theses on Contemporary Greek Culture*Ī geopolitical crossroads may be the best place to articulate the enduring beauty of mixed feelings.Īndreas Embirikos with Matsi Hatzilazarou, Untitled, c. That original likeness is stolen from you asīy breaking the law in the Garden of Eden.Modernising Joy-Making Mourning. Is completely condemned, my enslaved soul, Something is lost in your mortal structure,Īnd the usual shape of the person undergoesĪnd now when the uniquely miraculous structure Like the yoke that mediates between the greatĮstablished in the name of Christ is sometimes impaired,Īs with the cutting off or loss of an unruly organ, Tied to the bonds of love uniting the church, You are assembled of 360 parts and five senses,Īnd no aspect of your physical being remains invisibleĪnd the explanation of the image of these things is engraved on youĪs on an uneraseable monument, wretched soul of mine,Īnd the continuous train of days around the year To carry out the practical affairs of daily life Of the victory of the good things given you.Īnd you were endowed with artful hands and So that you might speak with an unfettered tongue You were doubly endowed in the womb of reason, So that by its light you might not stray and might On the lamp stand of your body, encircling your head, O fool, why did you choose to be earthbound,Īlways preoccupied with the worldliness ofĬarrying on like wild asses in the desert? The image of the shepherds’ tent in the Song of Songsīy whom, in whose image or why I was created.Īs if in flight on two wings lifting you upward, ![]() Shepherd of a flock of fetid sin, a flock of wild boars,Ī shepherd watching a flock of desert goats. Speaking with God from the Depths of the Heart Joanne Epp is a Winnipeg poet whose most recent collection is Cattail Skyline (2021, Turnstone Press).This poem arose from the poet’s reflections on Ephesians 4 the title comes from the hymn “Where charity and love prevail” its 9th-century Latin text was translated by Omer E. Think of time, of echo: how voices reverberateĬoming. Think breath: how long to hold the chord, The scripture reference included is from Ephesians 5:14. Ryan Teitman is a poet living in Pennyslvania, and the author of Litany for the City (BOA Editions, 2012) from which this poem is taken. In the morning, the jar was empty, and our eyes were the color of nectar. In your dream, you whispered, wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead. On the last night of summer, we fell asleep in the hayloft. You carried that jar with you always, half-filled with their dried bodies, like kernels of corn. You opened your mouth and let the doctor reach in with pliers, let him pull one bee after another from under your swollen tongue, and let him hold each corpse-glistened with spit-up to the windowpane, before dropping it in a jar at your bedside. That night, the doctor dipped bandages in honey and wrapped your welted limbs, while your father read to you from Aesop’s Fables. You stood in the swarm and shouted, “I am the Lord God of all creation!” before your father ran in and cradled you to the house. I remember the day you went crazy with fever and took a hatchet to the hives in the apiary. Remember what we used to know: the owl perched in the barn rafters with a kitten dangling from its beak, the summers so dry that the wheat withered underfoot as we walked through the field with ice-cream-coated hands. ![]() His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, Image, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spiritus, JAMA, Brilliant Corners, Connecticut River Review, and many other journals. ![]() His most recent collection is Trespassing on the Mount of Olives (Poiema/Cascade, 2021). How to Look for a Church by Violet Nesdolyįree to bear the suffering without words.īrad Davis is a California-born Canadian living in northeastern Connecticut. The above is his poetic rendition of Ephesians 4: 14-16. His books, including Ephesians: Poems, are available through Amazon. Trey Dunham is a poet living in West Virginia. He lives with his wife, an Anglican priest, and their three children in Whitby, Ontario. Shane Schick is a journalist and content marketer whose poems have been featured in Macrina Magazine, Ekstasis, Amethyst Review and many other publications. “Put off your old self, which is corruptedīy its deceitful desires. ![]()
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