Featured Poem:
Song From the Road
Long on this journey
Long in these shadows
Far from the only home
Low all our hoping
Deep the undoing
Just the forsaken road
Voices we dream of
Echoes remember
We all together there
Heaven was once
Our song to be singing
Hearts’ every word
In wonder and joy
I am how your heart discovers
All the hopes that sleep in you
I am every silence calling
I am Fountain I am Meadow
I am every secret door
Sing your ships into their harbors
Sing them bring them heal them home
Murmur every holy river
I am Harvest I am Blossom
I am leaves around your soul
Come from the shadows, into the gleaming,
Dawn of the day in us;
Open our lives to everything growing–
How shall we say this grace?
World we are watching, world we are,
Keep us in life with you.
How do we answer? How do we know?
Love bring us closer. Mercy us home.
I am how your heart discovers
All the hopes that sleep in you
I am every silence calling
I am Fountain I am Meadow
I am every secret door
Sing your ships into their harbors
Sing them bring them heal them home
Murmur every holy river
I am Harvest I am Blossom
I am leaves around your soul
music by Craig Hella Johnson
News & Upcoming Events:
Build Me a Boat: A Virtual Reading
Wednesday, November 11
7:00 – 8:30 pm (via Zoom)
Wisdom Ways Center
1890 Randolph, St. Paul MN
Build Me a Boat: Words for Music, 1968 – 2018
Available November 2020
Carnegie Mellon University Press
News & Upcoming Events:
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
Considering Matthew Shepard
February 20, 2020. 7:30 pm
City Recital Hall, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Philharmonic Choirs, VOX Choir
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
Considering Matthew Shepard
February 21 and 22, 2020. 7:30 pm.
NorShor Theater, Duluth, MN
TwinPorts Choral Project
UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
Considering Matthew Shepard
April 25, 2020. 4:00 – 6:00 pm
New York Society for Ethical Culture Concert Hall, New York, NY
The Dessoff Choirs
FEATURED POEM:
Song From the Road
Long on this journey
Long in these shadows
Far from the only home
Low all our hoping
Deep the undoing
Just the forsaken road
Voices we dream of
Echoes remember
We all together there
Heaven was once
Our song to be singing
Hearts’ every word
In wonder and joy
I am how your heart discovers
All the hopes that sleep in you
I am every silence calling
I am Fountain I am Meadow
I am every secret door
Sing your ships into their harbors
Sing them bring them heal them home
Murmur every holy river
I am Harvest I am Blossom
I am leaves around your soul
Come from the shadows, into the gleaming,
Dawn of the day in us;
Open our lives to everything growing–
How shall we say this grace?
World we are watching, world we are,
Keep us in life with you.
How do we answer? How do we know?
Love bring us closer. Mercy us home.
I am how your heart discovers
All the hopes that sleep in you
I am every silence calling
I am Fountain I am Meadow
I am every secret door
Sing your ships into their harbors
Sing them bring them heal them home
Murmur every holy river
I am Harvest I am Blossom
I am leaves around your soul
music by Craig Hella Johnson