Sunday Sonnets came out in December 2012, but it wasn't out when I got out my Christmas cards. So let me tell you a little more about this little book. It's a "dialogue" (monologue?) based on the sermons of the Reverend Donald Morris, who was my pastor in Athens, Tennessee several years ago. He was a poetry lover, and he incorporated poetry into almost all of his sermons. T. S. Eliot was his favorite poet (though not mine, mine was Yeats). We even had a poetry group meeting once a week at Trinity Methodist Church, the church next to the campus of Tennessee Wesleyan College, where I taught for almost twenty years. But to the sermons: they were engaging, challenging, more than most sermons I have ever heard. I was challlenged to read passages from the New Testament in ways I had never before. When I wrote the first of these, I did not realize how many they would become. At any rate, I present them to the world as one poet's search for spiritual truth. At one poet, Reverend Morris said to his congregation: "I would have you become students of Christ."
Sunday Sonnets is published by Little Creek Books and is available through Amazon.com and Brooks and Noble.com,, even as a Nook book. I hope you find the poems challenging enough to look for your own interpretations of the passages and continue the dialogue. Peach in Christ.
Sunday Sonnets is published by Little Creek Books and is available through Amazon.com and Brooks and Noble.com,, even as a Nook book. I hope you find the poems challenging enough to look for your own interpretations of the passages and continue the dialogue. Peach in Christ.