Making the House Ready for the Lord by Mary Oliver - Poem for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Psalm 90:1-12
Making the House Ready for the Lord
Mary Oliver
SNIPPET:
Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but
still nothing is as shining as it should be
for you.
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Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterized by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared to be the country's best-selling poet. (via Wikipedia).