by Kevin Bauder | Jul 19, 2017 | Apropos of Nothing, Poetry
It’s an easy one. From Middlingpoet.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 20, 2017 | Art and Literature, Christianity, Culture, Library, Library Tips, Poetry
Cosmophagy is a book of nature poems by David Oestreich. Here’s the blurb on the jacket: If you sit up at night thinking about leaves realizing “they’re each alone / and out on a limb,” or wait for “each day to be sliced in half”...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 18, 2016 | Devotion, Poetry
Paraphrased from Isaiah 40:1-5 By Johann Olearius Tr. by Catherine Winkworth Comfort, comfort, ye my people, Speak ye peace, thus saith our God; Comfort those who sit in darkness, Bowed beneath their sorrows’ load. Speak ye to Jerusalem Of the peace that waits for...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 4, 2016 | Christology, Devotion, Poetry, Soteriology, Theology
God of Love Augustus Toplady God of love, whose truth and grace Reach unbounded as the skies, Hear thy creature’s feeble praise, Let my ev’ning sacrifice Mount as incense to thy throne, On the merits of thy Son. Me thy providence has led Through another...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 27, 2016 | Angelology, Devotion, Poetry, Theodicy, Theology, Worship
On His Blindness John Milton When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account,...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 24, 2016 | Eschatology, Poetry, Theology
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come Henry Alford Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home; all is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin. God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied; come to God’s own temple, come, raise the...
