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Sarah's avatar

Very beautiful.

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Hannah Hicks's avatar

Perfect poem for my day today- both of those really Blessed morning, Tanner, as well as your song. Thankyou for sharing what was on your heart. Gave wings to the day!

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yourfriendmer's avatar

Matt and Tanner, your poetry (whether spoken or by song) is like honey and a warm blanket to my soul. Just beautiful and full of assurance of the Lord. Thank you for sharing.

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Rachael Denny's avatar

Good stuff!

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Deborah Rutherford's avatar

Love poetry on Wednesdays and this song and poem. I read one of my poems https://open.substack.com/pub/deborahrutherford/p/the-god-who-woos-us-home?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=bhras.

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Abigail's avatar

I love waking up and thinking, "It's Wednesday! There will be poems!" Today I wrote about cleaning up barf, so that was a first. 🤣https://literaryfeast.substack.com/p/night-watch-after-our-last-supper?r=kgdnq

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eyes for lines's avatar

I also often find myself writing what I need to hear... or what I’m currently processing. For this week’s Wednesday Poetry Club, this was it.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/168318525

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Mary's avatar
4dEdited

Hi matt! Good to meet you - here V on Tanners channel

Don’t give up.

Sit still for another moment before you get up and go,

and when you go,

take it slow.

Life is not a problem to solve

or resolve.

It’s a gift,

not a burden,

not a mess,

not just another thing to stress.

Take a moment to pray.

Drop to your knees or fold your hands,

either way, God hears !!!

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Ciara Brooke Reese's avatar

Love love love this poem. Thank you for sharing!

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PhysicsPhantasm's Carey-all's avatar

Tanner, excellent poem again. I always look forward to reading your Wednesday posts.

Here is my poetry club post for the week. its different than my normal posts in that it is not theological. just a silly little poem from a real life experience.

https://open.substack.com/pub/physicsphantasm/p/pear?r=1ttzow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

This one quieted me in the best way.

There’s something holy about language that doesn’t try to fix you, just sits beside you until the ache softens. “You are not behind.” That alone was enough to untangle a knot I didn’t know I’d tied.

The line “I’ve been told wisdom is as good as gold” made me smile like someone had just handed me a weathered map back to myself.

This is what poetry does when it’s written for the soul, not the syllabus. It reminds us we’re carried, not cursed.

We go on. Yes.

And sometimes we even do it with praise on our lips.

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Andrea Stoeckel's avatar

To Mary

I want to be able to tell you

All I have seen and heard 

All I have known, all I will know

But will you understand 

When I tell you I have seen G-d

In a tree or a mountain 

In a piece of bread dipped in wine

In a dancer, a clown 

a person living under the bridge

who huddles in the cold

A person who cannot see,or hear, or walk

Perhaps you will hear 

If I speak in the language of love 

If I do not speak to you

but speak to your soul

With questions – questions that may not have answers we can hear with our ears

but ring loudly in our hearts 

Will you understand if

I tell you I have seen G-d in you?

one of the top ten poems of 1989. of The American Poetry Association 

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Mary's avatar
4dEdited

To mary? Aww you got my attention. What a beautiful share. Thank you!

Today is a catholic feast of the Carmelites an order who prays and ponders and contemplates - in the 12th century Jesus's mom came to mount Carmel to remind us to look and see G-d who is present now with us - even in places experiencing violence and horrors of war as currently in the mt Carmel area trust

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Mariska Burger's avatar

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

Thank you!

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