A poem for Easter: Happy Easter!

One fascinating fact about Easter that is telling, is the wonderful role women play in the Easter story. I wanted to emphasize this wonder, so this poem.

Easter Poem
By Peter Menkin

Sharing The Year Long Vigil, Awake--Easter.
The empty tomb, surprised Mary, who,
greeted by an angel of illumined white light,
looked for Him.

Desperate love,
where have you taken Him?
The gardener is asked.
I wonder is the gardener He.

I have met women, who,
today,
wait and go to visit the tomb discovering
He is risen.

These women meet Easter, glory,
third day joy of happiness.
Theirs is vigil, awake.
We share this mystery--love.
















These are some of the searches that have led people to my web page, different from this blog. The web page is a personal web page. It has something about me, and poems. Here are the searches: easter poems for church; religious easter poems; easter vigil poems; spiritual easter poems; easter promise poetry; the empty tomb poem.
How do I know what people search on leading to my web page? There is a service that gives me statistics on my web pages, and the searches listed this month of April, 2007 are the ones about Easter quoted above.

Last poem of Easter, a return to the first of Easter...

This simpler poem tells of Easter Vigil, at this end of the Easter Season, after the Ascension, a return to the beginnings of the Easter of this year. Now five years old, I rediscovered this older poem on my computer from 2001. Originally posted on the Atlantic Monthly Writer's Workshop website, it appears here unchanged from that original post. It seems it was a good poem from the start. I hope you like it.

Thursday's vigil, night time
by Peter Menkin - Apr 13, 2001

We await
in vigil
a mysterypromise.
A surprise
of one in three,
eternityopens its gates.
The cross,
the tomb,
sorrow allows
ecstacyof kindness

for He is not
here, the angel
tells. Easter word.
We stretch our
arms out to you.