The Prayer of the Publican
Oh Father, thanks for making menot as that two-faced Pharisee!He gives alms and rings a bell.I give none, but wish folk well. He fasts for holiness in men’s eyes.I feast on all that money buys.He…
Category: Original Poetry
The Phantom Wood
The woods are deep, and still resoundwith trumpet blasts and calls of hound.The huntsman’s quarry, stag and fox,elude his chase through rills and rocks. There! A wolf crawls from his lair,out for the deer, he…
A Night of Fallen Nothingness
[A Good Friday poem] The Altar stripped, the candles dark, the Crossconcealed behind a purple shroud, the sun;mere slantings through an afternoon of grief,while all the world is emptied of all hope. The dead remain,…
Lady Macbeth’s Cat
Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would” -Macbeth I.vii.48 Lady Macbeth wrangled with Macbeth during dinnerAt cross purposes outside the banqueting hallA privy conference as to who was the worse sinnerShe thought him weak; he,…
Why Do You Hurt Me?
Why do you hurt mewith actions that you do?Why do you let me downand leave me feeling blue? Why is it that you leave me outand favour other friends?Why do you go to them not…
Jesus of Palestine
Was Jesus of Palestine?Let Him be your answer.Where have I seen the thirsty?There, you have seen Him.When the water is cut offand the children's mouths are parched.Where the land is hot and brokenlike oven-baked bread.He…
Do the Trees Hear Us?
Do you think the trees can hear usas we walk beneath their boughs?Softly treading all around them;morning mist touching their brows. Do you think that they can feel ustreading the earth over their roots?Do they…
Night in New Bedford
‘Tis twilight in New Bedford-town, and all is still and deep, the day from that old Yankee town has left and gone to sleep. all is quiet on the wharf, gone are sounds of day,…
Spectral Shackles
~ by Amanda Pizzolatto Clanging, clanging through the hall,wearing a chain only she can see;connecting her to a past the world forgot,a past she no longer wants to see. She wanders alone in her selected…