Nativity Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb,Now leaves His well-belov'd imprisonment,There He hath made Himself to His intentWeak...
The Journey Of The Magi A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep...
Hill Christmas They came over the snow to the bread’spurer snow, fumbled it in their hugehands, put their lips to itlike beasts,...
As you may have seen elsewhere (like here), we have begun our Lenten journey with a blog which will share a poem a day through this...
Lent It is good to be last not first, Pending the present distress;It is good to hunger and thirst,So it be for...
Blessing the Dust All those daysyou felt like dust,like dirt,as if all you had to dowas turn your facetoward the windand be...
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...
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...
