Landscapes of Truth
Desert - show me to myself, strip me naked of shame and pretence so that the bones of my soul ring a melody unconfined and joyfully free. let your emptyness inform me, until the wild…
Category: Original Poetry
Love and Love Again
Opening up the heart and the mind discovering-thinking in and out of thought noticing judgment striving-longing feelings of need pulling at someone else searching for words survival-instinct healing interesting noticing anger discomfort-fear respect shaking noticing…
The Fisher of Men: Simon Peter’s Wake Up Call
I’ve cursed these waters all night long, and now the morning star has given rise to the blazing dawn. I’m mending these ragged nets with stronger, thicker string, Nets filled with holes that have provided…
The Ultimate Life-Giver
The deeper I fall into silence and feel the vast magnitude of the Source of All Silence from which creation flows, the spark of life, breath of my breath the soul of my soul, the…
Waiting Room
A young man With a sparkling earring And clothes that reek Of sickening smoke, The kind that dulls All the senses And makes me choke – He’s tapping his foot, A jerking rhythm Of uneasiness…
Home Reclaimed: A Selkie’s Return
The little child walked through the woods and found a tiny pool And wondered what there could be found beneath its waters cool. She was a very special child and soon enough could see That it…
Eve of May
Now that summer’s coming nearer, My blood does quicken in its pace And never has life, to me, seemed dearer. Ne’er have I felt my heart race – The way it does for hawthorn blooms…
Hidden in the Winds of Loving
There is great joy in the hiddenness of loving and to feel the winds in the breathing of the soul - We do not fly through the power of wings but from the winds of…
Our Lady of the World
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. ~ The Epistle of Saint Paul to Titus 1:15 (NABRE) The gem of Christ illumined…