by Jane Beal
a collection of poems about birding and the spiritual life
in Uganda, California and the Philippine Islands
Archive for July, 2014
SPIRITUAL AVIARY for the Year by Jane Beal
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“For the Overstressed Scholar” A Cento by John J. Han
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Why is your face downcast? (Gen. 4:6b NRSV)2
Why do you look so dejected? (Gen. 4:6b NLT)3
Of making many books there is no end,
and much study wearies the body. (Eccl. 12:12 NRSV)
Those who increase knowledge increase sorrow. (Eccl. 1:18b NRSV)
Knowledge puffs you up with pride,
but love builds up. (1 Cor. 8:1b NCV)4
What do people really gain
from all the hard work they do here on earth? (Eccl. 1:3 NCV)
You will die this very night. Then who will get
everything you worked for? (Luke 12:20 NLT)
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens. (Eccl. 3:1 NIV)5
There is a time to plant
and a time to pull up plants. (Eccl. 3:2b NCV)
There is a time to look for something
and a time to stop looking for it. (Eccl. 3:6a NCV)
There is a time to keep things
and a time to throw things away. (Eccl. 3:6b NCV)
Happy are those who find wisdom,
and those who get understanding. (Prov. 3:13 NRSV)
Anxiety weighs down the human heart. (Prov. 12:25a NRSV)
Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? (Luke 12:25 NLT)
Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest. (Matt. 11:28 HCSB)6
Be still, and know that I am God. (Ps. 46:10a NIV)
John J. Han
Integrité (Fall 2012)
“Provision” and Other Poems by Jane Beal
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“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
nor has it entered into the heart of man,
what God has prepared for those who love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9
Nico & Vinz
Maroon 5
I crept along a ridge of broken stair
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Extraordinary found-art/found-word poem …
Background image is HiRISE image of ridge of Coprates Chasm on Mars (image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona). The cut-text is borrowed from Wordsworth’s “Prelude.” I planned a grayscale image, but my scanner made a colorization error and created the strange colors.
“Map Reading” by Jane Beal
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“The Sunflowers” by Mary Oliver
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Come with me
into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks,
their dry spines
into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks,
their dry spines
creak like ship masts,
their green leaves,
so heavy and many,
fill all day with the sticky
sugars of the sun.
Come with me
to visit the sunflowers,
they are shy
but want to be friends;
they have wonderful stories
of when they were young –
the important weather,
the wandering crows.
Don’t be afraid
to ask them questions!
Their bright faces,
which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds –
each one a new life!
hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come
and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves,
the coarse roots in the earth
so uprightly burning.
Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems Vol. 1
New and Selected Poems Vol. 1
THE POETRY PLACE 