by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
#PoetryFriday 26_0403. We are celebrating Holy Week — the most sacred week in Christianity. During this week, we commemorate the final days of Jesus Christ’s life on earth — beginning with His joyous entry into Jerusalem, continuing through His suffering,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 29 Last week I shared a sonnet by poet-priest Malcom Guite, “Palm Sunday” (read my post). Today, on Palm Sunday, as we enter Holy Week, I am sharing a poem, also named “Palm Sunday,” by Marie J. Post. With haunting...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
March 2026 Slice of Life, No. 27#PoetryFriday 26-0327 This Sunday we will celebrate Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. And so I am sharing “Palm Sunday,” one of the Holy Week sonnets by the poet-priest Malcom Guite published in his book Sounding...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL26-0120 Here in the Northwest, the sun rose about 7:43 today. By that time, I had eaten breakfast — two thick slices of smoked pepper bacon, scrambled eggs with pepper jack cheese, toast slathered with butter and a thin layer of Kelly’s Habanero Pepper...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1230 From my journal: Before sunrise . . . Christmas cookies and coffee–Cookies: ice kipfels, date pinwheels, date tartsCoffee: Black Rifle Coffee And while I enjoy my coffee and cookies, As I am pondering the year past and the new one ahead, I am...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1209 Motion stops. Doors slide open. The PA announces, “Exit here for gates A22 through A39.” Pulling my rollaboard, I step through the doors, into the Skylink station, and walk across the platform. There I pause. Sun streams through floor to ceiling...
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