Read the post first, then click the image and listen to the song. It will make more sense... Listening to God is a strange idea. Seven billion people on the planet, all of them living and dying with needs, cries, joys, dances, and wars full of cruelties worthy of front page banner headlines. We …
Tetrameter Fragments
So I've been experimenting with various ideas about what to do with the tetrameter that I've been writing each morning for over two years. For the moment, I've decided to pull fragments out and create panels experimenting with text and texture. I've got lots to learn visually, but it feels like there's potential here. …
Poetry Tuesday: We Need, We Men and Women, Wanting Much
WE NEED, WE MEN AND WOMEN, WANTING MUCH We need, we men and women, wanting much; A breakfast bun, a hand nearby, a breath, And quicker answers to the mad questions Buzzing our quiet times, distracting us. From nothing we came, but what does that tell us? What nothing is nothing, what kind of nothing …
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Faith and Art: What is the Heart of the Matter?
What is at the heart of the conversation between art (in all its form and expression) and the faith of the Christian (in its multiple and varied flavors)? Here we go again…for more than a decade I’ve been leading an annual discussion with undergraduates at Abilene Christian University concerning the intersection between the real world …
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Poetry Tuesday: Make Me A Tower (Don’t Reduce Me)
What if we treated each other like poems? Things of beauty to be broken apart and experienced instead of commodities to be judged? Here's a piece that I've performed a couple of times, down at the open mic of the Seattle Poetry Slam and then in a worship gathering at the Northwest Church. …
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JEFF BERRYMAN 