Showing posts with label The Fourth Sunday in Advent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Fourth Sunday in Advent. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2022

On the Eve of Advent - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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On the Eve of Advent

 

On the eve of Advent Jupiter ascends

As is his custom at dusk this time of year

Then Mars and the company of Orion

And all the dutiful stars awake, arise

 

To mark the passing of Ordinary Time

And arc into the west and disappear

Late leaves rustle unseen in the deepening dark

We whisper our Compline prayers along with them

 

And in the absence of light await the Light

Which will appear in the most unlikely places

Monday, December 23, 2019

The Fourth Sunday in Advent Slightly Misshapen - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

The Fourth Sunday in Advent –
Maybe I Should Have Shaped this as a Chalice
As George Herbert Might Have Done

At Mass I was tagged to serve as First Host
Because someone else was taking my place
As First Cup but then whoever had First Host
Had a cough. When I went to the vestry

I was told I was not needed and then
Somebody else told me that I was. Then yet
Someone else said I was not needed
And then yet again somebody else told me

That I was. And in the event, the church lady
Who organizes these things told everyone…