Poetree: Weekly Round-up for January 29-February 4

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jjhunter has asked me to be a co-moderator for the poetree community. I was honored and happy to help out with a community that I am enjoying so much. Right now my goal is to get the weekly round-ups caught up. So without further ado here is the round-up for the week of January 29-February 4, which was hosted by the lovely and talented rbarenblat. She offers some fascinating meta and commentary and a selection of truly lovely poems.

Poetry host rbarenblat's posts and associated poems:

On weekly poems, scripture, inspiration
-intro post
-meta (see post title)
-poem: "Enough"

On poetry, Judaism, and being (or not being) a "religious poet"
-meta (see post title)
-poem: "Morning Practice"

On poetry teachers, favorite poems, and why we love poetry
-meta (see post title)
-poem: "An Horatian Notion" by Thomas Lux


Highlights from the Comments:

"Enough" brought to mind syntaxofthings's brothers upcoming bar mitzvah.

A great conversation between ysabetwordsmith and rbarenblat on Pagan and Jewish themed poetry.

yossi was reminded of zir own experience wrapping tefillin.

From syntaxofthings:

I'm rather new to "religious" poetry (or maybe I'm not, if I consider my favorite author, Madeleine L'Engle, whose works are to me a combination of prose and poetry and always speak to spirituality), so just finding it, and people who are attempting to express their spiritual experiences through poetry instead of spouting do's and do not's, is like a light bulb going off. "Oh. This is what it's like to be religious?" It's pretty wonderful.

Thank you.

lynnoconnacht shares what interested her in poetry.

Associated posts from other community members:

ysabetwordsmith
Reminds us that February is the National Haiku Writing Month