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    3 Poems by Jennifer Hoffmann

    Spring

    I notice a small branch
    on Fairlawn Avenue.
    Tiny, bare, like a Tai Chi pose,
    it lies vulnerable
    in the busy road.
    I bring it home and place it
    in my favourite single bud vase.
    Pour the water in slowly,
    meditatively.
    I watch over this offering.
    For just a few moments each day
    I merely witness as the end of each
    tiny offshoot transforms
    into buds,
    and then, remarkably,
    into blossoms.
    It is a little like being a spiritual companion
    to this small branch;
    as Galway Kinnell might suggest
    my reverent daily attention is teaching
    the thing its loveliness
    until it flowers from within. 


    One Line

    I want to write
    one line
    of poetry
    perfect
    for this moment, 

    sanctifying the pen
    sanctifying the paper
    sanctifying the moment. 

    I want to write
    one line
    of poetry
    perfect
    as a bough of Forsythia 

    pirouetting, Ikebana-like,
    in a slender, silver beaker. 

    But
    all that stutters
    from my sorry pen 

    is chicken soup and matzo balls. 


    A Poem 

    A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer.
    It is soul in action.
    Poets compose in a frenzy of ecstatic intuition. Edward Hirsch 

    Your hand, Your hook.
    My prayer. 

    Help me recall
    what my heart already knows
    but has forgotten
    as the rocks on the river-bed
    rattle me, as my words are muted
    by the miracle of morning light. 

    Help me reach
    for my shield and my staff,
    the pen and the paper
    which are the voice of soul. 

    The words are the thread
    to the invisible heart.
    Who is the author? 

    Reveal to me
    once more
    the thin place inside time
    where talking and listening become One, 

    as, in a blaze
    of intuition, 

    I remember 

    my first tongue,
    the language I spoke
    before I was born. 

    Help me re-discover
    as Rainer Maria Rilke offers,
    that You are the Other
    in my solitude,
    a silent center
    for my conversations with
    myself . 


    Bionote 

    Jennifer ( Jinks) Hoffmann was born in 1943 and was raised in South Africa. She and her husband Alan immigrated to Canada in 1966, where they have lived since. Jinks is a Spiritual Director. She trained in the Lev Shomea program, which means “listening heart” in Hebrew. She is the poetry editor of Presence: an International Journal of Spiritual Direction. She has three adult sons, and is blessed with eighteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Jinks loves to write poetry, and to work daily with her dreams. These are two of her most loved ways of listening for life's Mystery. Jinks has had numerous poetry and prose publications both in print and on-line journals. Jinks may be reached at jinksh@sympatico.ca 





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