Day 39 (Good Friday) - "scream" by enfleshed https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz enfleshed - poetry through lent en-us 2021-02-18 22:03:04 UTC 2025-10-07 02:21:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1377880449 Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

How hushed was your scream?

Listen; hear those words of love.

]]> 2021-04-02 11:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1377880449 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1377936524 Only once have I screamed like that, whole-body rebellion against hopelessness, against the unceasing tide of demands that would have drowned me without noticing.

That was the moment I saw myself as indelibly “dangerous” - the size of my rage and freedom terrifying, even to me. So I fled.

Since then I have not dared to raise my voice above a whisper.]]> 2021-04-02 12:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1377936524 Just Scream by Nancy Blade https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378030850 Children scream too much;
   Adults, not enough.
I'm practicing in my empty nest
   To scream as God intends.

]]> 2021-04-02 13:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378030850 Scream https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378171337 When I was unable to scream, unable to utter a sound /
My silence protected me, I thought /
instead the silence screamed ]]> 2021-04-02 14:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378171337 Hard Times https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378198248 I almost never scream out loud
 
It might feel really good if I did
 
I’d want to be in the mountains – or by the ocean – where the earth could receive my pain
]]> 2021-04-02 15:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378198248 Scream https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378456257 A scream abandons all pretense of control

I’m too pretentious 

Screaming risks repercussions 

I’m too careful

Screaming might open us to a powerful daring and raw deity

I may never know

BWH]]> 2021-04-02 17:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378456257 Enough. Enough. Enough. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378460024 2021-04-02 17:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378460024 Scream https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378511851
"My God, my God, why?!"
"I got my second vaccine!"
Grief and Rejoicing

WDRplus]]> 2021-04-02 17:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378511851 Mom, Dying in April https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378622636 "Has she screamed?" the clueless chaplain asked.  Her body, riddled with cancer was failing.

Screaming, she told us later, would only upset the nurses who tended her.

My mother, always my teacher, comes back to me at this time of year.  Dead for 37 years, I sing her praises still.

(The anniversary of my ordination was yesterday. One of my mother's last blessings to me was to place a stole on my shoulders in celebration.)]]> 2021-04-02 19:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378622636 Scream https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378780734 The day’s news makes me want to scream

My disbelief, my horror, the indigestible pain.

Instead I pray for the will to effect the change of which I dream.

dm]]> 2021-04-02 20:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378780734 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378861005 I wish it were a scream.
But with energy sapped by grief
I manage only a quiet tear.]]> 2021-04-02 22:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1378861005 Scream https://padlet.com/enflesehd/uhctuddlab1bqwlz/wish/1380698417 Was my scream aimed at my children? 
For not listening once again? 
And yet...I don’t want them to blindly follow authority, even mine 
My scream was at my lack of support system 
My lack of self-care 
Me.  
Get it together.  
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