Easter Pantoum by John Terpstra - Poem for Easter Sunday, 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 Easter Sunday, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Matthew 28:1-10
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Easter Pantoum
John Terpstra
SNIPPET:
In a church in a city on the edge of the world
The risen Christ dances
Over the heads of the congregants
Who are also dancing
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John Terpstra is a Canadian poet and carpenter. He’s published over 15 works of poetry and non-fiction, and has been awarded for “Forty Days and Forty Nights,” “Captain Kintail,” Disarmament, and The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter. (via Wikipedia).