This is the next installment of my “Sonnets for Advent” series. The poems are based on scripture from the daily Advent readings suggested by my home church. ❤️ #advent2021 #sonnetsforadvent
Sonnets for Advent: Saturday week 1
Sonnets for Advent: Friday week 1
This is the next installment of my “Sonnets for Advent” series. The poems are based on scripture from the daily Advent readings suggested by my home church. ❤️ #advent2021 #sonnetsforadvent
Sonnets for Advent: Thursday week 1
This is the next installment of my "Sonnets for Advent" series based on the scripture readings from my home church. I hope it blesses you.
Sonnets for Advent: Wednesday week 1
This poetry series is a combination of my personal exercise in writing meditative scripture poetry and the daily Advent readings from my home church. I hope it blesses you.
Sonnets for Advent: Tuesday week 1
This poetry series is a combination of my personal exercise in writing meditative scripture poetry and the daily Advent readings from my home church. I hope it blesses you. #sonnetsforadvent
Sonnets for Advent: Monday week 1
This poetry series is a combination of my personal exercise in writing meditative scripture poetry and the daily Advent readings from my home church. I hope it blesses you. #sonnetsforadvent
I followed you out to this desolate place… : a poem
I followed you out to this desolate placebut now I can’t hear you above this storm.I feel abandoned. Tears pour down my face.Their salty streams my only food and drink.Please, LORD, it’s you my soul is panting foryour flesh true food indeed and blood true drink.Through day and night your steadfast love is sureas the... Continue Reading →
The Ancient Willow
A while back, I wrote up a post entitled What Good is a Roll Without Butter? about my dear brother-in-law Jonathan and how we composed a poem over the course of two days via text message. Another while back, my husband, brother-in-law, and I were out on a jaunt in the little ol' white Honda, and composed... Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving Carnage: A Sonnet
I see you laying there flat on your back, Your limbs splayed out against a metal slab. Unclothed, exposed, cold skin and muscles slack, Hands poke and pull and nip and tuck and grab. Your innards are removed and in their place, Some cruel heart replaces them with fluff. With brush in hand they paint your pallid face,... Continue Reading →
Blame
In quiet moments you will cross my mind. I sometimes feel like you have never left. Just when I think I’ve left the past behind, Your shadow chokes my heart and steals my breath. Allured by kindness to captivity, Your harsh demeaning words broke down my will. Blinded by love and my naivety, I grew to... Continue Reading →
Rachel Svendsen 