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Category: poetry

they are playing our song

January 28, 2016 wally metts3 Comments

We have fallen in and out of love a hundred times, and we have seen the peaks and the valleys, from the sublime to the ridiculous. And we always come back to that covenant we have made and kept.

Posted in family, marriage, poetryTagged covenant, music, our song, peter gabriel, the book of love

How to tell a good poem from a bad one

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 wally mettsLeave a comment

In a good poem there is a line or an image in which I recognize myself, standing alone, witnessing some evil which must be redressed or some delight to be recovered.

Posted in commentary, culture, poetryTagged craftsmanship, Dickinson, literature, poetry, transcendence

3 places to find a good poem—and why you should

October 22, 2015October 22, 2015 wally metts1 Comment

A good poem requires us to slow down, to contemplate mystery, and to ponder the power of words to evoke thoughts, images and emotions.

Posted in commentary, culture, poetryTagged ciardi, dylan thomas, juan herrera, poet laurate, poetry foundation, writer's almanac

a place for poets

November 22, 2013November 21, 2013 wally metts2 Comments

Today, 50 years after C. S. Lewis' death, we can still hear the lion roar.

Posted in books, celebration, commentary, poetryTagged c.s. lewis, Christian imagination, chronicles of narnia, jack lewis, john f kennedy, mere christianity

loafing as a virtue

January 16, 2013January 17, 2013 wally metts6 Comments

The "miraculous in the common" here is that no effort or words were needed to know we were deeply blessed and greatly loved.

Posted in books, marriage, poetry

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