Last Sunday the Rector’s Forum at St. Stephen’s Church in Edina, Minnesota, featured guest speaker Jan Bucher, who is both a psychotherapist and spiritual director. Those present for her presentation were invited to write a poem that describes either God or ourselves in relationship to God, following this pattern:
one noun
three adjectives
four verbs
phrase
one or more words that connect with the first noun
I’d like to share with you three of those poems, beginning with this one by Daniel Beal, which alludes to the popular writings of C.S. Lewis:
Aslan
powerful, quiet, watching
protects, understands, forgives, guides
the one I trust
Lion of his people
Look here tomorrow for the second poem by the Rev. Nancy Brantingham!
I love this and will encourage those doing my Advent retreat to write such a poem.
I’ve done something similar with the O Antiphons, encouraging retreatants to write their own, following the form of the traditional ones. A brief description from one of the retreats in which I suggested it is here:http://susanjoan.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/the-o-antiphons/.
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