In this Gottescast, The Gottesdienst Crowd discusses the playfulness of poetry and four poems that help illustrate this. Anthony Dodgers (pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Charlotte, IA) and David Petersen (pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN, and the author of the recurring column "Commentary on the War" in the Gottesdienst journal) join us for the discussion.

Here are the poems in order: 

• Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry

• John Donne, Death, be not proud

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Children's Hour

• G. K. Chesterton, The Song of the Strange Ascetic

• A. A. Milne, At the Zoo

• John McCrae, In Flanders Fields

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