Dominik's Poetry

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  • Meditations on the Nature of Love - Unbidden, in contemplation, / joy comes: / rain washing away / a tired summer's day.…
  • Falling in Love - Is falling in love / like a good book? / Where everything else / disappears,…
  • When am I strong, I might ask? - When am I strong, I might ask? / The world would answer: / You are strong / when you are strong.…
  • Human Dust Alive - I trace my fingers along threads of fate, / for my eyes cannot discern whither it is that they lead. / As much as I want to know what will happen, / I cannot not know, and it vexes me.…
  • Truth Conquers - I offer you my sorrow / and receive your strength. / I share my tears with you / and you infuse me with your grace.…
  • St. Francis Revisited - There's a strange look in your eyes: / a sort of stunned silence, / as if you can't quite believe / that you're seeing what you are.…
  • Things are they were meant to be - "I can see many things far off, / but many things close at hand / I cannot see," Gandalf did say. / Aptly did he put it then.…
  • Hasten II - You crafted me. / You crafted her. / At the right time, I know. / You will reveal us to each other.…
  • An Answer from St. Therese - Do you think she's out there? / Yes. / I know she's out there. I've seen her. / She's beautiful.…
  • Create in me a clean heart - I sit here, head bowed, / body bent, heart broken. / I sit, alone, a man / made in your image.…
  • No Invisible Umbrella - So alone. / Cold and lonely. / Sorrow curled up / in a little ball.…
  • Sad and Tired - Sad and tired: / a sorrowful grimace; / an exhausted sigh. / The shadows parting:…
  • With my Beloved - Is it crazy to say / that I miss you? / I don't even know / if I've met you.…
  • A different perspective - Hate your sin, / not yourself. / For you / made your sin,…
  • Sed tantum dic verbo - And just as quickly, / the cloud passes, / the burden lifts, / the shadows flee.…
  • Why? - I may never know. / I have to let go, / and let bygones / be bygones.…
  • Nine Lines - Make me humble and pure, / Lord. / Make me humble and pure. / I'm so tired of fighting, Lord.…
  • Curious Satisfaction - There is a curious satisfaction / in a job well done. / Or at least a job / well started.…
  • Battlefield - I am the battlefield, / torn asunder. / Here it is / that battle rages.…
  • Moment - There is naught to do / but to live in the now. / Not the then and there. / Not the was and will be.…
  • River of Fire - What is this joy? / This joy that floods me: / a rushing river / clean and pure, from the mountains.…
  • Cartographer - I cannot see where the road will lead. / I am not certain I wish to walk upon it. / Yet I find myself drawn forward, / wishing to know the unknown.…
  • The Hopeful Search - I thought she was you, / but she wasn’t. / Whether I had found you, / but I hadn’t.…
  • The Face of the Waters - The face of the waters, / subtle and still. / Shimmering slightly, / soft and subdued.…
  • Silence Falls - Silence falls. / Tumbling down the stairs, / with nary a sound, / head over heels.…
  • Reflection II - To walk the mists of morning. / To dance underneath the evening star. / To hold hands and browse the woods. / To gaze into each other’s eyes, lost.…
  • Reflection I - Those were the days. / There was nothing / but my dream / and I.…
  • A Lady Like Air - I fell in love with an image. / She was beautiful, innocent and true. / She looked quite a bit like you. / Except for one small sorrow.…
  • The Dialogue of Amathil and Itrecal - "You do not love me, / and I do not love you. / Not yet, at least, not yet. / This is not love we feel, friend."…
  • What if there were no poetry? - What if there were no poetry? / What would life be like then? / Would words stop reflecting thoughts? / Would the world come to an end?…
  • Hasten I - The little I suffer now seems, at times, much. / But what agony do I have that can compare / to the most perfect woman cradling, like a newborn babe, / the corpse of her son, the son of God?…
  • The King’s Daughter - One does not / simply take / the hand of the / king's daughter.…
  • A Prayer for Faith - Spinning round senseless, / all my ends come to despair. / I see the encroaching darkness / and I try to resist.…