Steven Federle Poems

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1.
Leap Of Faith

You've decided
that you want me,
and so commanded
flashing angels
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2.
Blue Days

Blue Days

Blue days race
to starry nights.
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3.
Peter's Report

Running all the way,
bent double in breathless pain
we peer and see
the gaping grave
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4.
Rocky Shore

ancient lake
spirit of
glacier,
waves recede
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5.
Ordination

“What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” Thomas Merton
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo
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6.
November Sky

See the perfect sky of November
cloudless, cool, southern sun,
garden of blue eternity
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7.
Miracle

"Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it."
Thomas Merton

The night looked bad.
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8.
Storm Clouds In October

Grey,
torn, and twisted
they fill the sky
with the slow motion
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9.
Transition

The generals line-up, war-plans
in withered hands, ready to strike
the children.
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10.
Life

You breathe, and my lungs
rise and fall like winter trees
swaying, sure of spring,
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