- 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.…