Best Christening Poems

Baptized by the sun,
The leaves shake off drops of light:
Pasture’s sacrament....

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Storm's favor;
All at once it rains,
Never seen....

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I lost my heart that day,
Captured by your innocent beauty.
Your eyes reflecting sky and wonder
As you lay in your white dress,
Still and silent in your cot,
Watching the shifting clouds
Filter the morning sunshine.

I held you in my arms.
And gazed into those soft, blue eyes.,
A splinter of...

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My new born child, unto the Lord I give
That in his shadow, he may walk and live.
And so, this day into the Church I go
To Christen him with a water’s flow

His tiny body in a robe so white
Will soon be bathed in Christ’s loving light.
Round...

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Red  velvet  with  gold corded embroidery
Old  farmhouse faint smoke  frost glittered
Spices  wine  honey  candles  milk  apples
Orders  farm produce meat game and  fish
Great fire in kitchen preparing for the evening
Writing poetry ...  baby...

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Last Irish Christening


We christened Megan 
Catholic today
just as we had, 
years ago, Sean and Nora.
Afterward my wife and I,
with relatives and friends,
talked and joked as Megan slept
through drinks and barbecue
Father fixed behind the phlox 
in Mother’s garden.
That was Sunday. 
Now, on Monday, 
Sue and I...

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Shadows of tomorrow,
reflections of yesterday

Images of the moment
—in whose Trinity we pray

(Devil’s Tower Wyoming: September, 1990)...

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ghosts and spirits 
ancestral entities
clamoring around new baby
delighted with her, all excited
thrilled to be invited 
to a family christening
at the family church...

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don't be fooled by the grey beard, 
I'm the science fiction you speak of, 
the little wizard bloke in the picture
whose antics between gravestones
and christening robes jerk like those
flicker book pages we made as kids, 
and now, old again, today is payback

...

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May your feet be always guided 
to find a righteous road.
And may your hands be nimble 
to ease a trying load.
And may your ears discern
stories from sincerity.
And may your eyes be clear and bright 
to ascertain all verity.
And may your mouth and tongue
sing joyous truth...

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