The Strange Gift
It’s a special gift she told me. Make sure you treat it with great care. Endure it with love patiently. Most people will not understand. You’ll feel like you’re going nowhere, like you’re cycling endlessly …
Category: Original Poetry
Who Would Have Thought
Who would have thought That good news could come to us? Lost in the sea of fields Cut off from family, home, faith Doing a job no one wants. Yet meeting angels and being sent…
The Dawn Carol
Watchmen! – keep watch for light, Watch on the walls of our land. We long for days of lost sight, Shadowed by death’s dark hand. “Unto you that fear my name Shall the Sun…
Contemplation of a Pregnant Teenager
They say you forget the pain When the baby is in your arms. I don’t know if it’s true – I’m still waiting. But even if it is, I know I won’t forget the fear;…
Advent – A Gift of Becoming
“The old order changeth, yielding place to new”-“The Coming of Arthur” and “The Passing of Arthur” in Idylls of the King There is much to be said for Ordinary Time It's very ordinariness is kind…
Immaculate Perception
By Danny Oscar Rutilio What does it mean to see in the Transcendence of He who brought forth ex nihilo?For Mary’s eyesAre a windowThrough which TranscendenceEminently resoundsThe Song of Symphony…All of Being is now transfused…
O Watchman, Watchman
O Watchman, Watchman, tell me what you see,Tell me what clarion call has stirred your blood;Long, long this night has been, and long have weIn darkness struggled ‘gainst the whelming flood. O tell me we’ll…
Duncan Douglass’s Wedding Song to His Lady Love
~ by Raymond E. Lipinski It was Yuletide when the snow did come,And a lad dreamed of a girl so fair,Singing a carol at the river’s bend.Her enchanting smile did catch his stare In the…
The Pride of Lions
And my father was a Lion And he went across the sea To take the message to our brothers That one day they would be free We have no words to speak the memory Of…
Celebrate All Saints Day
~By Amanda Pizzolatto Hello, hello, come one, come all Let me tell you about this holy day in fall Set up to honor a church in Rome Remembering those who have made their way home. …