Tag Archives: Palm Sunday

Strow the Way, Plants of the Day

By Robin Bates | Published: March 23, 2024

Vaughan’s “Palm Sunday” draws its energy from spring growth.

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Palm Sunday, The Donkey’s POV

By Robin Bates | Published: April 1, 2023

Mary Oliver celebrates Palm Sonday with “The Poet Thinks about a Donkey.” She make take her inspiration from Chesterton’s “The Donkey.”

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Join in the Joyful Symphony

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2022

Two Palm Sunday poems, by Lucille Clifton and Henry Vaughan, emphasize the vegetation imagery.

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A Barn Shall Harbor Heaven

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2020

In Richard Wilbur’s “Christmas Hymn,” low and high meet as we have the promise of worlds reconciled.

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Caught Up in the Singing

By Robin Bates | Published: April 13, 2019

Palm Sunday Anglican priest and poet Malcolm Guite is the author of many wondrous lyrics, including “Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year” found in Sounding the Season (Canterbury 2012). “Palm Sunday” captures something I’ve always noticed but never fully grasped—that days before the trauma of Good Friday, there’s a moment of euphoria that seems to […]

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Dear Feast of Palms, of Flowers and Dew

By Robin Bates | Published: March 19, 2016

Henry Vaughan’s “Palm Sunday” looks to palms, flowers, and palm-strewing children for Easter hope.

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the dance of Jesus music holds the air

By Robin Bates | Published: April 20, 2014

These Lucille Clifton poems usher us from Lent into Easter.

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Palms before My Feet

By Robin Bates | Published: March 24, 2013

This Chesterton poems recounts Palm Sunday from the donkey’s point of view.

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