Category: poetry
-
The One Sheep
This sonnet is based on John 10:11 and Luke 15:3-7. If it is helpful you may listen to me read the sonnet via the player below. By mid-morning, my circumstance it seems Has closed the door to joy, friendship, and rest And locked out of love, my loneliness leaves Me…
-
The Good Shepherd II
This poem is about the Good Shepherd of John 10:11. If it is helpful you may listen to me read the poem via the player below. Away from the comforts of the valley farm To the height of the mountain meadow, We pass into a realm of foreboding harm Stepping…
-
Pulverulentis Siccus
The title is a name which C.S. Lewis employs as an author of a children’s grammar in his book, Prince Caspian. The name means, “full of dry dust” which is just what Lewis thought of a good bit of what was being written from young minds. The poem itself is…
-
You Are Dust
This is a reposted sonnet for Ash Wednesday entitled, You Are Dust. The poem is based on the lines spoken when ashes are imposed on the forehead for Ash Wednesday; those lines are a quote of Genesis 3:19 which reads, By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread,…
-
Your Good Deeds
This poem is based upon Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 which is the lectionary reading for this coming Ash Wednesday. If it’s helpful, you may listen to me read the sonnet via the player below. Your good deeds should be so secret that you Don’t even know what you do, Nor notice…
Backward Mutters 