A Poet's Work

A POET'S WORK

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Trinity Episcopal Church Midtown Houston

“A poet's work is to help expanded humanity's literary and cultural dialogue, and to magnify and transform our human perceptions. We do so by engaging fresh forms and symbols and vocabulary. We create new languages describing the experience of life. We offer words, and in our imaginations try our best to capture the ineffable and intangible - tongues of angels and heaven.”

 ~ Ron Starbuck

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The Literature & Poetry of Faith ~ The Paschal Mystery

there is something
old and new at work
within the world
temporal and eternal
undying, and yet fragile
worldly, and everlasting
a Word, made flesh
a thought given form
a form, which is
formless, a Spirit
unseen and invisible
which is known
through love
intimately sought as
a grace freely given
a first born child, who is both
human and divine
a reconciliation
made real 
in heaven and
here upon the earth
an indwelling
a resurrection
of the flesh
and a healing
of the soul 


Ron Starbuck © 2016


From ~ Alternative Forms of the Great Thanksgiving

Eucharistic Prayer B ~ Episcopal Book of Common Prayer


"At your command all things came to be: the vast expanse of 
interstellar space, galaxies, suns, the planets in their courses, 
and this fragile earth, our island home. 

By your will they were created and have their being.

From the primal elements you brought forth the human race, 
and blessed us with memory, reason, and skill. You made us 
the rulers of creation. But we turned against you, and betrayed 
your trust; and we turned against one another.
Have mercy, Lord, for we are sinners in your sight.

Again and again, you called us to return. Through prophets 
and sages you revealed your righteous Law. And in the 
fullness of time you sent your only Son, born of a woman, to 
fulfill your Law, to open for us the way of freedom and peace.
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By his blood, he reconciled us.
By his wounds, we are healed."