What Mean These Stones? Archaeology, Poetry & Mystery
The mystic does not bring doubts or riddles: the doubts and riddles exist already. We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery […]
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Tag: Poetry
Gizem Dagl
‘Gizem Dağl’, or ‘Mountain of Mystery’ in Turkish, is a poem written in the Masnavi form. Writer’s Digest explains that the Masnavi (or Mathnawi) is an ancient form with Persian, […]
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Authorship: A Poetic Meditation
I thought it might be interesting to take on the endless arguments about who wrote the plays of Shakespeare and compare them with the arguably more serious debate over authorship […]
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Joy’s Arrival / Hidden in the Boughs
‘Joy’s arrival’ was written in the early months of global lockdowns, at a time where distance felt insurmountable and travel impossible. In the midst of a kind of togetherness in […]
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“Maps,” My Map
During the Apologetics Research and Writing class I took and Dr. Ordway taught, the class was assigned her book Apologetics and the Christian Imagination. Though each chapter concluded with a […]
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The Challenge of “The Republic”
Plato banned the Poets from his state, ……Yet said, if one could make a sound defense ……In lilting verse with cogent arguments That they do more than merely imitate An […]
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Some Real Magic: Taliessin Lectureth in the School of the Poets
Within the cadences of human speech ……Attentive listeners can sometimes hear ……The rhythm of the wave upon the beach ……Or listen to the music of the spheres. Within the small […]
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