Poetry
Triduum Poems
Sunsong
(Gethsemane prayer, Holy Thursday)
sunlight pours upon the field in early autumn.
wheat grows thin,
nourishing the wind.
soft-spoken daffodils
wait for the tide,
sheltered only by a song.
now shall my song be lifted.
poems of...
Poetry
We Are Such a Mix
Each year at the start of Lent, I notice again my need for God’s grace to bring me back from all the ways I’ve wandered away or gotten lost....
Poetry
Days Hazed, When Such Winter Chill, and Light Too Bright to Behold
Days Hazed
days hazed,
holding their knowing,
known in hope only,
open too slowly,
while these days
filled too full
quit too quickly, knowing not yet caught.
yet hazed days
are wonders working,
slowly seen,
but granting sight
so that in...
Poetry
The Return Home
That Christmas, when we were in love, he gave me a watercolor he’d done some years before of the Holy Family’s return from Egypt. He explained that, while he...
Poetry
Three Poems
Jubilee
You’ve multiplied the many fruits
of every gift You’ve given me:
music, service, intellect,
with love-begetting-love
multiplied most;
and now
like a plant
in a pot
You ask me to rest;
and looking up I see Your hand
and...