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A Poem to Sit With
Ascension / May 9, or May 12, 2024
Seventh Sunday Easter / May 12, 2024
J. Janda

Ascension Readings
Seventh Sunday Readings

“Holy Father, keep them in your name ...
so that they may be one just as we are one.”
(Gospel, Ascension)
  


Mystical Rose

Stop talking
‘bout color

white black brown
red or yellow

if you prays
you be all God-colored
which is to say

you be bathed
in the essence of God
who possess

all color

you flow into him
he flow into you

you gonna forget
distinctions
they never did help

but only if you willing
to put up with
a little darkness and pain

J. Janda

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J. Janda’s poems have appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and literary publications, as well as in books of his own poetry.
Copyright © 2000, J. Janda
The present poem comes from the Janda's book, In Embrace.
Art by Martin Erspamer, OSB
from Religious Clip Art for the Liturgical Year (A, B, and C). This art may be reproduced only by parishes who purchase the collection in book or CD-ROM form. For more information go http://www.ltp.org
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