For Courage When the light around lessensAnd your thoughts darken untilYour body feels fear turnCold as a stone inside, When you find...
The Place Where We Are Right From the place where we are rightflowers will never growin the spring. The place where we are rightis...
Thanks Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are...
The Third Yes My first yes was eager and earnest and ill-thoughtit was spirited and bouncing and saw the wholeworld like a Chicago...
Poetry For Supper 'Listen, now, verse should be as naturalAs the small tuber that feeds on muckAnd grows slowly from obtuse soilTo the...
God Went to India To see the elephants.God adores elephants.He thinks they arethe best thingHe ever made.They do everythingHe hoped...
Just Like Job My Lord, my Lord,Long have I cried out to TheeIn the heat of the sun,The cool of the moon,My screams searched the...
Saint Francis and the Sow The budstands for all things,even for those things that don’t flower,for everything flowers, from within,...
E Tenebris Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,For I am drowning in a stormier seaThan Simon on thy lake of Galilee:The...
When Death Comes When death comeslike the hungry bear in autumn;when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy...
Blame the Vicar When things go wrong it's rather tameTo find we are ourselves to blame,It gets the trouble over quickerTo go and blame...
God's Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a...
The Glory Without any rhymewithout any reasonmy heart lifts to lightin this bleak season Believer and wanderercaught by...
We Wear the Mask We wear the mask that grins and lies,It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes—This debt we pay to human guile;With...
Monet Refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloesaround the streetlights in Parisand what I see is an aberrationcaused...
Days What are days for?Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over.They are to be happy in: Where can we live...
Lenten Poem Lent is a time to take time to let the powerof our faith story take hold of us,a time to let the events get upand walk...
Church Going Once i am sure there's nothing going onI step inside letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting seats and stone...
I Said to Poetry I said to Poetry: "I'm finishedwith you."Having to almost diebefore some wierd lightcomes creeping throughis no fun....
You Begin You begin this way:this is your hand,this is your eye,this is a fish, blue and flaton the paper, almostthe shape of an...
