AM I A STONE?

by | Nov 22, 2023 | Poetry

AM I A STONE? Christina Rosetti     Am I a stone and not a sheep, that I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross to number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss and yet not weep?   Not so these women loved          who with exceeding grief          lamented Thee.  ...

I Am . . .

by | Nov 22, 2023 | Poetry

       I Am . . .   I am who I am.   Sometimes it feels like it is not okay to be me, when I hurt and when I cry, when I am a child alone, unloved. That is how it feels . . . It is not okay to be me.   It feels like I have to be someone else . . . but I don’t...

Gloria

by | Nov 22, 2023 | Poetry

Standing on the crumbling edge, I viewed the vastness of the Abyss with disbelief: this cannot be. Yet it was, and is.   I had avoided this place for years. Fearsome place, I knew what it was, but now, I was here, watching the ones on the other side.  ...

To All Parents

by | Nov 22, 2023 | Poetry

Children are a gift from the Lord.  Psalm 127:3   .     “I’ll lend you for a little time a child of mine,” He said, “for you to love the while she lives and mourn for when she’s dead. It may be five or six years, or twenty-two...

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

by | Nov 22, 2023 | Poetry

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again           Eva Rose York   I shall not pass this way again …          Although it bordered be with flowers,          Although I rest in fragrant bowers,                            And hear the singing                            Of...

Go Out

by | Nov 22, 2023 | Poetry

  O Lord God, who has called us, your servants, to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden and through perils unknown:    Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that Your hand is leading us and...