(Joseph MacRae, published in Writers At Play Presents: Our Legacy, edited by Daisy Barrett-Nash, Equal Arts, 2022. From May 20, 2021.)
A Good Day
Today,
a good day--
to finish a project?
Today,
plant a garden
between the showers
that make gardens grow.
Today
will be a good day
after all.
(Joseph MacRae, May 12, 2021, Rosh Chodesh Sivan)
Things To Do When You're Plowing a Field
1. Feel the ground.
2. Know how deep to set your drift.
3. Remember how it turned last season.
4. Grow a new crop, soon to
5. become a field of green.
6. Notice as it grows.
*From prompt: write a six point advice poem, based on advice topic of choice and a series of six freewritten verbs; from Daisy Barratt-Nash's Legacy Poetry, May 12, 2021.
(Joseph MacRae, May 1, 2021)
Symmetry
(in honor of Holy Saturday)
This morning Jesus in
Hades is getting ready
to trample on the
powers of Satan.
When Autumn comes, flowers die.
Their seed falls to ground, into earth,
as Jesus died and was laid in the tomb.
Flowering, they dance their part,
appear alive out of earth,
just as Jesus was
resurrected alive
from the tomb.
(Joseph MacRae, May 1, 2021)
May Day Awaiting
(in honor of May Day, 2021)
And now, our blessed Mother,
Smile on our festal day
Accept our wreath of flowers,
And be our Queen of May.
- from the hymn Hail Virgin, Dearest Mary)
This morning as I walk
outside I smell the
fresh cool morning air.
Last night we received
the gift of a light rain,
a welcome gift to a
newly seeded children's garden.
Which we seed each year,
a delight to see
its first tiny green
shoots appear.
After so many dry days,
it seems as though they
were awaiting the gift
of Earth Mother's
nurturment,
the rain.
(Joseph MacRae, January 15, 2025, feast day of Our Lady of Banneux and Our Lady of the Seeds, Image from here .) Wind, the Voice ...
