For this Easter weekend I’ll be posting poems which are nonets or reverse nonets. A nonet is a French poetry form consisting of 9 lines with the syllable count descending from 9 to 1. A reverse nonet has 9 lines with the syllable count increasing from 1 to 9. I chose this form for the Easter poems because there are such dramatic highs and lows.

Ash Wednesday

The Yous and Mes of eternity,

we all must dig out the dirty truth.

Life begins and ends in dust.

Pride, wealth, and life itself

won’t last, must collapse.

From ashes to 

ashes, we

all fall

down.

Maundy Thursday

But

the One

who creates

paints our door posts,

then invites us in

to eat with Him in peace,

body and blood, bread and wine,

our lives swallowed up in His love,

our lives swallowed up in each other.