Finisterre by David Whyte - Poem for the Eleventh 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 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Matthew 14:22-33
Finisterre
David Whyte
SNIPPET:
The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken,
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
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David Whyte (b. 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet. He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality". Whyte has written ten volumes of poetry and four books of prose. His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States. (via Wikipedia)