Discover Poets That Sing To You.

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by Christine Sine

On the finish of my interview with Drew Jackson for The Liturgical rebels Podcast he asks: what does poetry must do with our personal journey and formation as individuals? What’s it for in that sense? It’s an incredible query for us to ponder throughout this season of Lent. A lot of the Bible was written in poetic kind. but we regularly ignore each the poetry that others have written and the poetry that wells up inside us.

Drew goes on to clarify:

I’ve simply been actually intrigued by that query by way of how poetry connects to our personal transformation and formation. It actually comes again for me to the necessity to let go of a necessity for solutions. That’s such an essential half, significantly of the religious journey of studying to let go in that sense, as a result of it’s studying to let go of a necessity for management,  which is actually, actually onerous for us to do. And I believe significantly for us in spiritual areas, the church has, particularly within the West, been formed to present individuals solutions, proper? Give individuals the solutions that they want. And so I actually, I believe that what we want proper now within the church is way more an invite into the thriller of all of it. And I believe poetry is a doorway to that. So yeah,  when you’re listening, my plea is sit with some poetry and see the place it takes you and see the way it leads you into the thriller. I do know that poetry can typically be intimidating for individuals. I believe that’s significantly due to the way it’s been taught to us at school. You don’t essentially have to come back to a poem and say, what does this imply? You possibly can simply let it linger for some time and see what rises in you.

 

I inform individuals, you understand, simply learn a number of completely different poets, see what resonates. In the identical means that you simply hearken to music, you hearken to completely different artists, not each music, not each artist is gonna resonate together with your coronary heart and that’s okay. However you don’t cease listening to music since you didn’t like one music. You retain listening and you retain listening. And I might say the identical factor about poetry. Simply hold studying. hold studying and also you’ll discover the poems and the poets that sing to you.

When poetry sings for us we not solely wish to learn extra poetry, we additionally wish to write it…. and for me that additionally means combining it with images and visible photos. I hope you take pleasure in this video of a number of of my prayers mixed with images I’ve taken over the previous couple of weeks.

I believe that this interview with Drew is ideal for weekend meditation.

Poetry as a Religious Follow with Drew Jackson

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