Tag Archives: Poetry
Welcoming 2019
Another New Year dawns, laden with hopes and promises. I welcome the New Year with gratitude. Thankful to be here and conscious and aware of this wonderful dawning. And these are the thought now running in my mind: I love … Continue reading
To Be Human Is To Hope
To hope is to be human. Man looks at the horizon Wondering what lies beyond, And he longs to find out. Man looks up the sky. He wants to reach out and soar as high, Maybe even further than his … Continue reading
Longing For Cleansing
We burn our garbage and thrash, Dirty smoke rises into the atmosphere. The sky takes up all our dirt Transforms it into clouds, clean and clear. We throw our wastes into the ocean. Our rubbish flows into the sea. The … Continue reading
Looking Deep Inside
From today’s First Reading: But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And … Continue reading
In the Afterglow of Thanksgiving
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. ~ Thomas Gray I hear the bell tollong … Continue reading
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From Our Source And Back
Following Jesus often sounds foolish and foolhardy in the face of the self-serving pragmatism of the world. And yet, his way seems to me the only way the world can save itself from self-destruction. The world has never had so … Continue reading
The Eternal WOW!
We embark on this journey called life with many other boats on this endless sea. And as we struggle on through unending strife We wonder what our life is meant to be. We are sailing together as seafarers all Though … Continue reading
Dreamer and Idealist
In my youth, I have always been a dreamer, an idealist. I would soar the heights of fancy and imagination, even plumb the depths of meaning and even darkness. In my imaginings, I could be anyone who I wanted … Continue reading
Knowing The Place For The First Time
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to … Continue reading
When Nighttime Comes
I am feeling adrift on a dark and dreadful sea It is all shadows and darkness lurking around me The light of reason had been snuffed out suddenly Where to go from here is now difficult to see. Just yesterday, … Continue reading