Tuesday, Third Week of Advent

Sonnet II: Advent Blue

Poem by Jason Anderson

The world moves onward to new Advents – blue:
the hue of death, depression, dark – what grief!
Processions, choirs, and clouds of incense meet.
Enormous banners herald light to come,
but your departure makes this Advent bleak—
the heart, so hurt, by loss made dull, made numb:
the world is changed and I am held by grief.
‘Let go!’ great antiphons proclaim, ‘and soon!’
‘O come, Emmanuel,’ and heal this soul!
The words of prophets, chants by choirs attune
a need for heart and life and soul made whole.
‘Rejoice,’ they sing. And what shall come of me?
‘Rejoice,’ I sing – for Peter lives in me.

Photos by Karen Klein

Birch trees on a purple background as they appear on the Lenten Banners at St. Michael's.

These banners hang at St. Michael's during the Lenten season.