Comments on: “We Must Overcome” by Jonathon Penny

By: JONATHON PENNY

JONATHON PENNY — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:36:02 +0000

Lovely to hear from you, BB. Lovelier still that the poem affected you so deeply.

By: JONATHON PENNY

JONATHON PENNY — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:35:28 +0000

Cheers and thank you, James. Where I am these days, I’d argue that the cultivation of grace within ourselves is the wellspring of hope.

By: JONATHON PENNY

JONATHON PENNY — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:34:35 +0000

I’m inclined to agree with James, Babs. There’s a little of all of us in it, and if we forget that, we may become part of the problem.

But thank you, as always, for reading and responding.

By: Braden Bell

Braden Bell — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 02:24:11 +0000

Beautiful, powerful, and deeply profound. It seems both a confession as well as a call to repentance, poetic prophecy, a searing, but sensuously pleasing, jeremiad.

By: James MacDonald

James MacDonald — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:20:12 +0000

I think we can find each of us in these lines. Thus all those that read it need it. I will seek to overcome and by God’s grace there is hope even for me. Thank you Jonathon for your well honed talents.

By: Barbara king

Barbara king — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 16:36:07 +0000

This was so powerful, but those who need to examine their bias and their fear of”the others” won’t read it, nor would they recognize themselves if they did read it.