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Amethyst Review – New Writing Engaging with the SacredNew Writing Engaging with the SacredAmethyst Review – New Writing Engaging with the Sacred Skip to content Amethyst Review New Writing Engaging with the Sacred Close collapsed Home About Editor Submissions Amethyst Press Contributors 2023 Contributors 2024 ALL SHALL BE WELL: A POETRY ANTHOLOGY FOR JULIAN OF NORWICH THIN PLACES & SACRED SPACES Menu expanded Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Rosh Hashanah – a poem by Rinat Harel Rosh Hashanah (Cambridge Massachusetts)I wake up to birds warbling outside my window;slight traffic swooshes by. I know the schools are closed today,and the synagogue down the street brims with men wrapped in cloth.Stripes and tussles. In the balcony above — away from rabbis and Torahs and allthat is holy — skirted women hold prayer books and hush their tots.I think of the dos and the don’ts, the pleas and the angst. And the God I failed to find among the reddish stone three millennia old, in a desertfive thousand miles away. When I walk by the synagogue, the intoned recitation,Baruch Atah Adonai, Elohainu Melech Ha’olam,wraps me with sounds of home. I halt at the gate, one hand on the latch.A midday sun, a ripe orange floating in a field of blue,seductive as a dream,pulls me away. Toward the river I step: trees in green September leaves;ducks bobbing in the shimmering stream;the whispers of grass blades; the smell of fresh water. And the intonation murmuring upon the wavelets:Baruch Atah Adonai, Elohainu Melech Ha’olam,echoed by the afternoon sun. Veiled by a drift of clouds, then round and glowing once more,pouring rays of life — a benevolent goddess. And the year starts anew. Rinat Harel holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Exeter, England. Her writing has been published in various literary magazines and received several awards. She currently works on a poetry collection titled Poems from the Boidem. Posted bySarahOctober 2, 2024June 23, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Rosh Hashanah – a poem by Rinat Harel Saint Thérèse of Lisieux – a poem by Ulrica Hume Saint Thérèse of LisieuxWhat bitterness in those eyes,what gracious pain.The flowers fall, and I gather them in.  Ulrica Hume is the author of An Uncertain Age, a spiritual mystery novel, and House of Miracles, a collection of stories, one of which was selected by PEN and broadcast on NPR. Her work appears online (EcoTheo, RIC Journal, Short Édition, etc.), in literary journals (Firmament), and in anthologies. She is a labyrinth guide. Posted bySarahOctober 1, 2024June 12, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Saint Thérèse of Lisieux – a poem by Ulrica Hume Shih – a poem by Wally Swist ShihI am waitingfor you to be broughtto the phone at the care center.Looking outat the yard from the rear windowin the living room,I watch the red-headed grosbeakhang from the tip of a branchthen dip down to the birdbath.My eyes grazeover the midnight blueof the Chinese platewe purchased at the antique storein Woodstock, Vermont, written withthe character, “Revelation,”in its center, withina black circle, asthe plate itself is rimmedin black.I am told that you arestill having your breakfast,to phone back later,as I will, as I considerthe character, Shih,my revelation today—that all our livesare limned in sorrow,so many levels of it,through which we experiencethe ache of love. Wally Swist’s books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2011 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, and A Bird Who Seems to Know Me: Poems Regarding Birds and Nature, winner of the 2018 Ex Ophidia Poetry Prize. Recent essays, poems, and translations have appeared in Asymptote (Taiwan), Chicago Quarterly Review, Commonweal, The Comstock Review, Healing Muse: Center for Bioethics & Humanities La Piccioletta Barca (U.K.), Pensive: A Journal of Global Spirituality & the Arts, Tipton Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Your Impossible Voice. Shanti Arts published his translation of L’Allegria, Giuseppe Ungaretti’s first iconic book, in August 2023. He will be featured writer in the Spring 2025 issue of Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation that will highlight several of his translations from the Spanish of Roberto Juarroz. Finishing Line Press will be publishing his book, If You’re the Dreamer, I’m the Dream: Selected Translations from The Book of Hours, in 2025. Posted bySarahOctober 1, 2024June 11, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Shih – a poem by Wally Swist Hail Storm – a poem by Sharon RC Lee Hail StormA storm just shuddered over usscattering icy pearls over everythingthe trees and their mossy coats make bowls and cups to collect the tiny delicate pellets of wildness. How tender they are. How brave. The sun prepares to take them back. They will be gone soon, not dead, but breath for ravens and frogs singing in the aftermath. Now the forest is steaming and stretching out in front of me. Proud of herself. I could die right here and become breath and fire, just like the ice. Sharon RC Lee has been writing poetry and prose since she was young. For the last twenty years she has been focused on raising her kids and on her career as a psychologist and therapist trainer in Portland, Oregon. Now on sabbatical, she is working on a memoir as well as essays and poetry. She has an essay that was published in Hip Mama, and she has written two chapters for a book edited by Ken Hardy that will be published next year. Posted bySarahSeptember 30, 2024June 11, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Hail Storm – a poem by Sharon RC Lee Michaelmas – a poem by J E Shipley MichaelmasSeptember equinox, below the surface.The tunnel, the burrow, and buried, yet—a holy day: Michaelmas,with slight blade of lightAppears, bracing and recoveredfrom some remembered book. J E Shipley is a new writer from the East Midlands of England. She is working on her first poetry collection. Contact: js.bookbench@gmail.com Posted bySarahSeptember 29, 2024June 2, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Michaelmas – a poem by J E Shipley Wonder – a poem by Jody Reis Johnson Wonder I sit on black lava rockas shadows gather in the sharp folds of the cliffalready moving onendless rows of wavesrise and dissolve before mealbatrosswheel and skimin effortless, ancient circlesand I weep for how I was back thenbefore I knew youhow brittleunyielding to wonderto this Jody Reis Johnson is an emerging poet from St. Paul, Minnesota, whose writing grows out of a practice of silence. Her essays on spirituality and contemporary social issues appear in a variety of periodicals including Bearings and Middlebury Magazine. Jody is a retired mental health professional who now teaches contemplative spirituality and practice, facilitates retreats, and provides spiritual guidance to individuals. She enjoys travel, cooking, and surfing with her grandchildren during winters in Hawaii. Posted bySarahSeptember 28, 2024June 11, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Wonder – a poem by Jody Reis Johnson The Door – a poem by Alfred Fournier The DoorI’ve spent too many dayscurled away from God,squeezing my pillow tight.Why are we most afraidof the one road that can save us?Carry us beyond hope of returning.I guess that’s a questionthat answers itself. One dayI will be filed away as ashes.We cannot live beyond our time.When that deep horn wails for us from afar,there’s no refusing its call.Why not lay my questions,self-doubt and grudges to rest?Why not wake to the soft miracleof the everyday?Soon I will realize that lovehas caught me in a corner.There is a bright white door.I see myselfreaching for the handle.  Alfred Fournier is a writer and community volunteer in Phoenix, Arizona. His first poetry collection, A Summons on the Wind (2023, Kelsay Books), was nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, Orchards Poetry Journal, Gyroscope Review, The Sunlight Press and elsewhere. Twitter (X): @AlfredFournier4, alfredfournier.com. Posted bySarahSeptember 27, 2024June 3, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on The Door – a poem by Alfred Fournier The Vanity of Faith – a poem by Ulrica Hume The Vanity of FaithThe vanity of faithin a universe measured by light yearsblack holesby infinite, shapeshifting views.Easy to lose oneself in such a place.Sing, if you must,a song of sweet fearsyour hallelujahs dissolvingas snowflakes on tongue.Sing of broken cathedrals.My hand on the sleeve of your coat hiding the rift in our gratitude.Beware the distances yet crossed.The stuttered flight,path petered out.Fix on stars in their sapphire wake.The snake, bright and sinless in the grass. Ulrica Hume is the author of An Uncertain Age, a spiritual mystery novel, and House of Miracles, a collection of stories, one of which was selected by PEN and broadcast on NPR. Her work appears online (EcoTheo, RIC Journal, Short Édition, etc.), in literary journals (Firmament), and in anthologies. She is a labyrinth guide. Posted bySarahSeptember 26, 2024June 12, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on The Vanity of Faith – a poem by Ulrica Hume Rumination – a poem by Wally Swist RuminationThe shadows of the roadside treesbroaden in the late September morning,cloud shapes lingering overMonument Mountain disappear,light wind stirs the hedge that borders the rail of the verandato further deepen the quiet.Cloud-watching, you say, “Look,how they move apart ever so slowly,”gesticulating with a handto the bands of cirrus thatonly drift farther across the light blue sky,resembling ocean waves imprinted upon a shore of imagination. Things evolvein constant disappearance:the contrail above the mountain,the small plane’s engine droninginto far distance, your memory nowfrom one moment to the next,like silence filling the descending scaleof our lives where music was once heard Wally Swist’s books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 2011 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition, and A Bird Who Seems to Know Me: Poems Regarding Birds and Nature, winner of the 2018 Ex Ophidia Poetry Prize. Recent essays, poems, and translations have appeared in Asymptote (Taiwan), Chicago Quarterly Review, Commonweal, The Comstock Review, Healing Muse: Center for Bioethics & Humanities La Piccioletta Barca (U.K.), Pensive: A Journal of Global Spirituality & the Arts, Tipton Poetry Review, Poetry London, and Your Impossible Voice. Shanti Arts published his translation of L’Allegria, Giuseppe Ungaretti’s first iconic book, in August 2023. He will be featured writer in the Spring 2025 issue of Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation that will highlight several of his translations from the Spanish of Roberto Juarroz. Finishing Line Press will be publishing his book, If You’re the Dreamer, I’m the Dream: Selected Translations from The Book of Hours, in 2025. Posted bySarahSeptember 25, 2024June 11, 2024Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Rumination – a poem by Wally Swist The Temple of Hera – a poem by Royal Rhodes The Temple of Hera ~ at AgrigentoThe temple does not stand,but seems to float,pressing lightly down.And we, like those gone,are thinking of the sheermathematics of it all --the almost invisible curvesto fool the quick eyeat a distance or near.Illusion is in serviceto a pure, godly reason --sacredness in paraphrase --lets us see what is real.And here we merge withthe polyglot touristsstumbling over rockpolished by myriad feetto gaze on her absence.But I can feel sharplythe peacock talons piercemy irregularly beatingheart. Royal Rhodes is a poet and retired educator who was trained in the Classics. His poems have appeared in numerous journals in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.  He lives in a small village in rural Ohio, surrounded by Amish farms and sheep pastures. 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