Poetry

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This list includes every page or product from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts that is tagged with Poetry.

  • colorful pairs of boxer shorts hanging in a closet
    The First Pair of Underpants
    From WorshipWeb
    I wonder Did God’s heart (I mean the love-mushy, endearing part of God) That part The heart that I don’t really believe in as a thing, With pulses...
  • I have always hated to wait for things
    From WorshipWeb
    Through the windy night something is coming up the path towards the house. I have always hated to wait for things. I think I will go to meet whatever it...
  • Niagra Falls, at night, with the falls lit up by brightly colored lights
    Desire
    From WorshipWeb
    I want not dainty bone china-cupped, oh-so-polite, pinky-extended sips, but guzzle-by-the-gallon, drink-from-the-fire-hose- two-hundred-eighty-psi-...
  • A Muslim family in Jabalia sits on the rubble inside the bombed out walls of their former home
    In the Ruins
    From WorshipWeb
    A man sits on the rubble— not just in the rubble, but on the pile of what remains. No people in the bombed-out houses. No dogs. No birds. Just ragged...
  • Silhouette of a flock of birds on a branch
    Each New Day
    From WorshipWeb
    Why is this blank page staring back at me, mocking, like an affliction, and fraught with dread? How can it hold such sway, this simple emptiness?...
  • a small child's hands, clasped, with patches of red, yellow, and blue paint
    Let the Artists Win
    From WorshipWeb
    I vote we let the artists win the ones covered in paint from their last attempt to smuggle across the beauty of a bowl of fruit the 14-year-old rapper...
  • red leaves resting on a carpe of dead leaves
    Release
    From WorshipWeb
    I wish I were like the trees, Who let their leaves go gracefully, without regret....
  • A young child holding and eating an apple
    Origins
    From WorshipWeb
    What is the history of any thing?...
  • Supplication
    From WorshipWeb
    I am so tired and weary, So tired of the endless fight, So weary of waiting the dawn And finding endless night. That I ask but rest and quiet— Rest for...
  • A faded, pink rose bloom
    Autumn Chant
    From WorshipWeb
    Now the autumn shudders In the rose's root, Far and wide the ladders Lean among the fruit. Now the autumn clambers Up the trellised frame And the rose...