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                 Meet me at the Passage

Bread of Joy

3/2/2022

 
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Time to eat the Bitter Scroll,   
try to find it sweet  
Time to hear the curse unroll  [i]
across the purest feet  
 
Adversity, adversity –     
how to greet it 
how to praise it 
how to thank it 
how to “eat” it !  [ii]
 
(2010s) 


[i]   Ezekiel 2:9-10  –   “It was then I saw a hand stretched out to me;  in it was a written scroll.  He unrolled it before me; it was covered with writing front and back. Written on it was: Lamentation, wailing, woe!”  

[ii]   Ezekiel 3:3:  –  “Son of man, he said to me, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving you.”  I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. 

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    Poems by Janet
    Illustrations by Johannes

    Most poems in Volume 3 are reflections based on, and mixed with, references to Biblical passages. These are grouped together to mark a slightly different approach requested from the reader.



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    Sections of Book
    and Poems

    All
    A ... Book Beginning
    A ... Book Ending
    Backwards Version
    Bread Of Joy
    Bring That Cloak Said Paul
    Call Of The Dove
    Catch My Tear
    Contra-Thoughts
    Countdown
    Dives’ Revelation
    End Day In Paradise
    February Joy
    Fidelio
    Give Us This Day
    King David’s Voices
    Not Naked Enough
    Not Ready Yet
    Open-handed
    Purgatory Of Moments
    Purgatory Press
    Queen Of Sheba
    Rain Falls
    Roads To Zion
    Saying The Angelus
    Searching
    Source Of Sorry Ground
    The Narrow Door
    The Rosary As A River
    Thomas True Apostle
    Turned Into Fools Instead
    Who Will Fill Empty Room
    Within Your Wounds


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