Come All You Sailors, Lovers, Seekers...

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COME ALL YOU SAILORS

Come all you sailors
Sail upon my sea
Swim in these salty waters
Cleanse the wounds that run so deep

Come all you lovers
Give your hearts to me
Come with your broken dreams
and your ruined fancies



Come all you seekers
Realize that you can see
Find within your deepest longing
That all you need is me

- The Wailin' Jennys

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Bread of Life

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Be gentle when you touch bread.

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Let it not lie uncared for, unwanted.

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So often bread is taken for granted.

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There is so much beauty in bread;

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beauty of sun and soil,

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beauty of patient toil,

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winds and rains have caressed it,

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Christ often blessed it.

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Be gentle when you touch bread.

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Celtic prayer

Come With Me

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The Sunflowers
by Mary Oliver


Come with me
into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks,
their dry spines creak like ship masts,
their green leaves,
so heavy and many,
fill all day with the sticky sugars of the sun.

Come with me
to visit the sunflowers,
they are shy but want to be friends;
they have wonderful stories
of when they were young -
the important weather, the wandering crows.

Don't be afraid
to ask them questions!

Their bright faces, which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds -
each one a new life! hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe, is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy.

Come and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves,
the coarse roots in the earth
so uprightly burning.

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Chicory

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Chicory

Roadside chicory with economy of leaves
splurged all to color,
blue, blue, lavender-blue blue,
flat faced, fringed blue on thin stems,
redeeming the ditches


- Arline Fobes

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