Tag: Easter

Break the Rules with Wendy Everard, April 9, 2024

Today we were breaking rules in writing poetry–grammar, poetic, life–any kind of rules and how we wanted to interpret that. I revisited my favorite e.e. cummings poem to use as a mentor. In 2020, I wrote another gratitude poem after his “I thank You God for most this amazing” here. Here’s

Most This Amazing Day
(After e.e. cummings)

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the singing worldly whistles of flyingfrees
and the birr of boundless sunstar sinew;and for everything
which is hope which is miracle which is Your yes

(You who died and turned Your grave inside out today,
and this is the Son’s rising;this is the Pax
of promise and of rescue and re-creation:
and You and you are welcome here)