Patience...

She knew the waiting game called patience And often in her life at long last Grace fell out of the skies She stammered a prayer of thanks. That was how her faith grew strong. And patients became an inborn quality, Pure as the shining dew on the petals Of...

Mother and Child...

In earthly garment of body and mind God with honour, mother and child, crown you The sublime will of the Creator kind. Dear toddling child sweet blessedness find Grace, joys, success, fulfilment await you In earthly garment of body and mind. Mother and child, God bless you both and...

My Perfect Other Half...

At each turn of phrase, I light up and laugh, The way you walk like a tree in motion, It’s what makes you my perfect other half. Sweet nothings we exchange are not empty sounds, They’re the most perfect phatic communion, They’re the things that make us light up and laugh. Who...

The Beginings of Amour...

After darkness comes everlasting light After glaring sunshine comes healing rain After arduous day comes restful night. After injustice and wrong comes right After the fools and the mad come the sane After darkness comes everlasting light. In the beautiful morning’s lovely light I...

Life...

There are times when days are full of Summer’s glory And times of blustering Winter-windy night; Howbeit in life’s cyclical story We live in night’s and day’s despite. For what is Winter cold or Summer sun But superficial show. The soul’s true condition For the while...

Habits of the Soul...

Though I sometime since then alone have been, My heart goes jump when someone knocks At the door. Could that be you? Habits of the soul don’t die easy. The wrack Thrown up by the sea, Sea-salt-sun-dried-windy-sweet wrack, Thrown up by the sea; One wants to sniff the air....

He Said, She Said...

  “Let’s go walking you and I,” he said. “Beneath the roof of stars, Beneath the majestic shadows Of the trees,” she said. “You are a spring of life to me,” he said. “You are a strong anchor for me,” she said. “The trees heard us As they...

Tizer...

Once upon a time, Mum let me buy a Tizer at the local Off Licence. On the way back, the local Yobs wanted some but I refused.  Going in at the gate, the bottle Slipped from my fingers and smashed. In the red Tizer and glass-shard puddle, my child’ eyes, Wide and round with dismay,...

God go with you...

 God go with you wherever you may go, And ease your way through this unhappy vale; In you I found a friend I did never know Lived, that quickened my soul, so sere, so pale. Before you stepped across the threshold bare, So rough and untrodden; before you swept The cold ashes from the...

The Rains...

The Rains Everyone in the village was looking forward to the end of the dry season. For a week, night after night, sheet lightning had raced to and fro over the southern skies. There was a change in atmosphere. The nights were not so harsh, cold and dry. The rains would begin soon. The...