Segullah's Blog, page 6
August 1, 2024
Kingfisher, Easter
You go, askingfor the last of the sunon the water,the newly greening trees,and whichever liveswill show themselves. After the greylag geese beggingon trailing wakesand the squirrel busy in the treesand the nesting moorhenasking not to be seenand the far-away grebesflashing their white breasts, he comes— streak of flame and turquoisestreaming so long and low over ...
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The Author
He wrote the prologue and appeared in it,The Author made flesh became the WordAnd dwelt among His characters,Redeeming them with the ink of His blood.The Poet who spoke creationSpoke Himself into the stanzaTo do what His creations could not –Rhyme human with eternal.Every tale springs from this tree. Ages on, He calls usLike Peter, to ...
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May 2, 2024
Announcing Segullah May 2024 Edition
We are pleased to announce our May 2024 Edition of Segullah, an online literary and art journal for Latter-day Saint women. This edition showcases the best entries from our 2024 contest and highlights the winners in visual art, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Our contest this year honors Ruth Cannon Siebers, the late mother of our Co-Editor-in-Chief, Shari ...
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May 2024 Edition
Editorial After a few years without a Segullah contest, we didn’t know what to expect when we opened the doors to welcome submissions from our worldwide sisterhood. Did anyone still remember us? Would they entrust us with their creative works? The resounding answer was yes! As entries trickled and then gushed, like water from a firehose, we were deliciously overwhelmed with a flood ...
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Honoring Ruth Cannon Siebers
Ruth Cannon Siebers’ eyes got dreamy when she talked about a book she was reading or the skill of the author. A voracious reader, she read 3-4 books a week. They were rhapsody and pure intelligence and energy to her. She filled dozens of notebooks with single spaced lists of books she had read with ...
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Art Contest Winners 2024
1st Place The first-place winner of the 2024 Segullah Visual Arts Competition is Diantha Smith Hopkins of Rexburg, Idaho. Her mixed media piece entitled “Priesthood” astounded our judges with its potent ineffable grace and its complete lack of woman- or man-splaining. With its subdued color palette, its layers of coated and textured papers (often scriptures ...
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Poetry Editorial May 2024
Our readers more than answered the call for this year’s poetry contest with 129 outstanding entries! As the poetry editor, I am profoundly grateful to introduce the winners. Your efforts made this contest issue a memorable one. We want to thank all the poets for your heartfelt submissions. Our poetry board did not know how ...
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Prayer Poems: A Trilogy (1st Place Poetry)
I. Learning to pray five times a day Five times a day, the call to prayer blasted throughthe Cairene apartment we rented without realizingits proximity to Thakanat el-Maadimosque. That first night when the cacophony of the city hushed enough that we could almost hear serene silence we slept until our dreams were ravaged by the crepitant ...
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On the Road to Montevideo (2nd Place Poetry)
Gauchos horseback, hats tilted sunflowersto the sun. Máte their salvation, bright tea sipped through silver bombillas. I came here to find faith. Not one constructedby St. Jerome or my father but nearer, unearthed, a loamy stone or dropped seed. To the blue flood beyond the bus window,I ask God, Who are you?The humility of silence. Birds I ...
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Listening to a Uintah Lake 2 Months After I Give Birth to my First Child (3rd Place Poetry)
The lake laps the lips of the shore where I sitaway from baby who’s with my mother up the hilland I hear in this place the changes in my namefrom lover to motherlike something gobbled into something else. I hear fish mouths muddling mossy mud,flopping frogs, the sound of the sky pulling metowards itself and ...
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