Poems for Lent - Saturday

Saturday Lent Poem 46

I cannot tell you how excited I am to be able to include this poem (and tomorrows!) on the blog.

Almost the day I started tweeting as LeedsBookClub, I was fortunate enough to become friends with Alice Shapiro (@CrackedPoems). Born in Georgia, USA, she is an accomplished poet, playwright and author. Mostly though, she’s really funny!

I let her know about my little Lenten project, and dropped some very subtle hints about how wonderful it would be to include a piece of her work. She managed to read between the lines and was generous enough to volunteer not one, but two poems.

 

Please find below a poem by Alice Shapiro, to be released in a new collection later this year (once I have details, I will post them).

 

Well Done

Alice Shapiro

 

I.

I – peruse past decades

I – have accomplished greatness

I – overcame

·         arcane banality

·         self-doubt

·         impetuous naiveté

Tender errors at ten and twenty

baked onto inner walls of an open mind

formed a calloused heart.

II.

Barefoot

walking sand-drenched sidewalks in the tropics

dazed, yet unfazed by a temporary lapse

in continuity

God – at my back

·         arcane banality – self-doubt

went up like smoke.

III.

Purified

wise wide innocence shares my easy chair

 I – consider grace.

Lenten Poetry Challenge

Lenten Poetry - 12 - Desire - Alice Shapiro

Lenten Poetry - 10 - Resurrection - Vladimir Holan

Lenten Poetry - 09 - Poems 41 - 44

Lenten Poetry - 08 - Poems 36 - 40

Lenten Poetry - 07 - Poems 31 - 35

Lenten Poetry - 06 - Poems 26 - 30

Lenten Poetry - 05 - Poems 21 - 25

Lenten Poetry - 04 - Poems 16 - 20

Lenten Poetry - 03 - Poems 11 - 15

Lenten Poetry - 02 - Poems 06 - 10

Lenten Poetry - 01 - Poems 01 - 05

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