Poetry

    Christmasanity [a poem]

    Posted On December 17, 2022

    Silent night, Holy night, Christmas cards, tinsel and bells, tender turkey and blood red ham, springtime lambs, fleecy white, pure and clean, each of us… Read More →

    This Is What It Means [a poem]

    Posted On November 5, 2022

    Inspired by Jeremiah 22:13-17; Isaiah 1:1-20; 58:1-14; Amos 5:21-24; Matthew 25:31-46. Don’t palm me off with your civil religionand your politely murmured prayers,don’t hand me… Read More →

    Another Funeral [a poem]

    Posted On October 1, 2022

    A brief glow of incandescencecasts it’s golden shadowalong the corridors of timea fragile silver threadby which we clingto the very breath of life. And all… Read More →

    Albert’s Funeral [a poem]

    Posted On September 3, 2022

    Recently,we met several times,but not for long,just a simple greeting in the street,your flashing smile,like a neon ad for Colgate,and that twinkle in your eyethat… Read More →

    She Died of Poverty [a poem]

    Posted On August 6, 2022

    Lord have mercy on her.Her mother’s love was the only luxury she knew;too much lacking to see even one year through,she died of poverty. Lord… Read More →

    Theology [a poem]

    Posted On July 2, 2022

    We all are childrenfumbling in the darkfeeling for a handlesearching for a wordthat might describethe indescribable. We have no tonguein the languages of mento circumscribe… Read More →

    Intimacy [a poem]

    Posted On June 4, 2022

    There is a hunger for intimacya longing for onenesstwisting and turningspiralingbetween stomach and chestbetween hearts,between you and me;this is an awareness(perhaps),that we were once allthat… Read More →

    that dawn will come

    Posted On May 11, 2022

    There will come a dawn,when the years those leeches ate,precious child-dreams destroyed,will fill your eyes once more,and you will learn to trust again,for you are… Read More →

    Dear Lady Poverty

    Posted On April 7, 2022

    This poem is a letter of confession and repentance from the Church to Lady Poverty. She is the face of the poor and oppressed around… Read More →

    A Christmas Poem and Reflection

    Posted On December 25, 2021

    Expectantly Waiting Centuries of our forefathers’ toil,Enslaved then exiled on foreign soil.Returning home, only to realiseThe Pax Romana is full of lies.Saddled by burdens –… Read More →