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This stage (of life)
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This stage (of life)

December 15, 2023 | Hannah Turner BK ‘24

I’m cast into the expanse of eyes as

I act to my best ability yet;

the lines I’d memorized now elude me.

Is “echoing what they said” worth my spot?

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Faces Turned Towards Glory
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Faces Turned Towards Glory

February 1, 2023 | Lily Lawler BK ‘23

Each sunset with clouds draped around it and every birdsong I heard in the morning pointed my face towards God’s undeniable glory. The infinitely unfolding beauty in this world was enough evidence for me that God is present with us.

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To One Kneeling Down No Word Came
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To One Kneeling Down No Word Came

December 27, 2022 | Jonathan Chan

For the last four years, I have been haunted by the voice of R. S. Thomas. An Anglican priest who tended to a parish in Wales, Thomas was also a poet. His poems have stood as lodestones in the corners of my mind each time I have prayed, or sat down to write a poem of my own.

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Batter My Heart
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Batter My Heart

December 31, 2021 | Shi Wen Yeo MC ‘23

The famous English poet John Donne is said to have been so afraid of and obsessed about death that he, on multiple occasions, rehearsed his death by lying still in his hearse and having someone paint the dead likeness of him. Indeed, he was a poet of the English Renaissance, characterised by his polemic attitudes—in his youth, he wrote many famous erotic love poems yet moved to somber sermons in adulthood, and he even converted from the “salvation through works” Catholicism to “faith and works” Anglicanism to become an important preacher in the Church of England. Ostensibly, he was a troubled figure, full of personal vacillations and characterised by contradictions—not unlike many Christians today.

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The People Are A Temple
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The People Are A Temple

October 26, 2021 | By Jadan Anderson MC ‘22

And souls are candles, each lighting the other.

I read this short poem by Gennady Aygi, a Russian poet, in a class where I had hoped to build substantial relationships with my classmates as we discussed faith through the lens of poetry, and vice versa. Surprisingly, I’ve been building those relationships even more in my introductory Chinese class, in between our bad third tones and character-related short-term memory loss.

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