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The Ragged Psalmist

Stephen T Berg

Ragged psalms, blue-collar poems, and goodwill bulletins; mosaics for suffering the world, honouring the earth, and shadowing the divine.

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According to the Deer of the Dawn

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Struck by this coral dawn
I'm enrolled in a new realm
an officious crow sounds comical
robin, true to every nature, is cheerful
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Happy Canada Day!

There are but a few ways forward. Perhaps in the end, only two. To love reality or forever be disquieted.

There is, of course, the central fact of our own mortality (which I too often evade but should embrace in line with life).

But intri...

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A Prayer for Venezuela

I recall the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March of 2011. My eldest son was living there at the time. After many hours, unable to reach him, hours of silence, hours of dead air, the news of his safety was like getting permission to bre...

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Happy Father’s Day to an Adequate Father

My five and I, some 26 years ago.

You’re a reasonably good father. Your colossal mistakes are distant, the smaller ones have thinned out, and for sanity, you’ve been able to forgive yourself of most — colossal or small. So there’s that. Of...

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Bard Owl

Traboulay Port Coquitlam Trail - June, 2026

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“I am like an owl of the wilderness,
like a little owl of the waste places.” -Psalm 102

Walking...
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    Disappointed hippy, approximate monk, rag-and-bone writer, blue-collar poet. Author of There Are No Small Moments and Beacons, Blues and Holy Goats.

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