Christian Literature That Grows Character Through Poetry
There is a particular kind of quiet that happens when a good poem lands. Not the “sit still and be impressed” kind of quiet, but the sort that rearranges what you’ve been carrying all day. I’ve felt it at kitchen tables with a cup of tea cooling in my hands. I’ve felt it on the back row of a church hall when someone read aloud a few stanzas, and suddenly the room seemed to share one thought at the same time. Poetry does that. It compresses meaning without flattening it, and