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My friend Taylor Field, author of several books including Mercy Streets: Seeing Grace on the Streets of New York and Upside Down Devotion, is director of Graffiti Ministries on New York City’s Lower East Side. Graffiti offers a variety of services, both physical and spiritual, to many of the marginalized people in the city. They "invite the uninvited and serve the underserved."
Taylor has a new project in progress on his blog The Stairway to Nowhere. He has been posting an original poem each day since October 1st. I don’t know how long his daily poems will continue, but they are well worth checking out. Here are two of my favorites of his so far:
Origins
I get it.
Natural selection
algorithms with time
incidental connection
Still
when I hear thunder
I don’t see why
I wonder.
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Age
Now you are so positive
that what you say is true
now you are so confident
that here’s the thing to do.
There’s a hint of preachiness
you think your thoughts are pure
I liked you better certainly
the times you weren’t so sure.
Each
day’s post has a photo to go with the poem to highlight the effect. I think you will
find it visually evocative, spiritually nourishing, and intellectually stimulating.
So
hop on over to Taylor Field’s blog at https://thestairwaytonowhere.wordpress.com.
It’s
a coffee and freedom blog! Who can’t get on board with that kind of endeavor?
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