Morning Star
Who is this snowy-plumed dove? This heart so enflamed with love? Can she be the Mother of our Lord? This heart pierced by a sword? She is fairer than any flower Sh! Our lord calls…
Category: Original Poetry
Divine Time
By The Traveling Troubadour Word Count: 721 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A testimonial poem about a pilgrim's journey to the shrine of St. Philomena in Italy. In Your Divine Time, Lord, in…
The Feast of the Seeker
Hands carefully and tenderly holding a book Pages thick and full between fingers in Anticipation of what new kernels Of wisdom may be consumed Chewed upon and digested with Hopes of nourishing a hungry Soul.…
Song of the Rising Mist
Sometimes I vanish into a wordless silence when love seems to play inside my heart, the way light disappears inside a wave as the power of a surging sea settles beneath a surface of outer…
Bright Beings
Bright ones you are always with me, Giving me strength to continue, when none is left. I see you every time I see the love in a child’s eyes, Or in the beauty of the…
Rosa and Arjuna: A Love Story
Two lovers separated by the stretch of open ocean endless sky moonlight passing day to night Arjuna’s window pointed west While Rosa’s looked out to the east Of their love they both were sure Only…
Hearth of My Heart
Home is calling Tugging at the heart Piercing it through Like a fisherman’s hook Like a net cast breaking The skin of the sea I’m being called home To the place of belonging Where the…
Less Than Human
Screams sound from their lungs But few hear them. They reach out for rescue They plead for mercy But few reach back It is easier to do nothing When those crying for help are faceless…
Country of the Soul
I celebrate my country… my country ’tis of Thee. A Place without chart, or map, or globe, which eye alone can’t see. A Place too small to fathom, and yet too great to miss. A…
The Oak’s Hymn
I stand in strength and verdant wonder for I am planted sure and deep My prayers like roots seek out their Mother nourished in earth my heart they keep I stand in sun and rain…