Poetry as Prayer, Prayer as Poetry

This permanent “Poetry as Prayer” resource page got its start as part of my 2012 blog series “Eastering: Poetry as Prayer”  thanks, in part, to fabulous feedback from you, my readers.  In addition to listing the series posts below, I look forward to writing more posts as well as adding resources and links from others to this page over time.

Eastering: Poetry as Prayer  (a blog series by Carolyn Weber)

1. Poetry as Prayer
   Thoughts on Pathetic Fallacy
2. “Riding into the Son-Set with John Donne”
   Thoughts on “Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward” by John Donne
3. “John Donne and Death Undone”
   Thoughts on “A Hymn to God the Father” (1633) by John Donne
4. “When the Suitor of Our Souls Pays for the Feast”
   Thoughts on “Redemption” (1633) by George Herbert (1593-1633)
5. “The Sweet Art of Easter with George Herbert”
   Thoughts on “Easter” (1633) by George Herbert
6. Taking Flight with Herbert’s Easter Wings
   Thoughts on “With Thee O Let Me Rise” (1633) by George Herbert
   
7. “Our God is Not a Fragile God”
   Thoughts “On the Wounds of our Crucified Lord” by Richard Crashaw
8. “Putting an Exclamation Mark on the Word”
   Thoughts on  “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins