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February 2020

February 26, 2020

Ash Wednesday

I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Year’s End

Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of...

December 26, 2019

Seynt Stevene Was a Clerk

SEYNT Stevene was a clerk in kyng Herowdes halle, And servyd him of bred and...

December 23, 2019

Annunciation

‘Hail, space for the uncontained God’ From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, VIc We know the scene: the room, variously...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

A Sonnet for Summer’s Ending

I love this time of swan song summer days when autumn is not quite here...

August 2019

August 17, 2019

Saturdays are a Good Day for Game of Thrones/XMen Characters

to entertain us with Hillaire Belloc Cautionary Tales:

May 2019

May 23, 2019

Headed for our Hidden Island Redoubt

...and will be back on Tuesday. But fear not! I've loaded stuff in the hopper...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

A Medieval English Poem Translated for Spy Wednesday…

... a Clerk of Oxford It was upon a Sheer Thursday* that our Lord arose,...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Ash Wednesday

This strange time of life hidden in brown death. The earth still crusted with ice....

February 2019

February 01, 2019

Sonnet for a Friday

(After Jeremiah 20:10-11) I repented, and Satan said, “Not good enough!” Mocking me, he spat...

December 2018

December 26, 2018

A Sonnet for Christmas

by Yr. Obdt. Svt., over at the Catholic Weekly.

December 08, 2018

The Virgin by William Wordworth

Mother! whose virgin bosom was uncrost With the least shade of thought to sin allied;...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

Sonnet for Easter

My latest over at The Catholic Weekly.

October 2017

October 18, 2017

Two Sonnets

I've been trying my hand at a bit of poetry because my heart has felt...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

The Island

A ferry, green and white, chased by gulls' cries threads waters skinned with dancing diamonds...

May 08, 2017

“The Exodus” by Dave Barnhart

The Exodus I have seen your religion, and I hate it. I have heard your...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

Skagit Salmon Hatching

A Sonnet for Easter Because the Resurrection deserves more than prose.

January 2017

January 06, 2017

It’s vital to relive important moments in American Literary History

I wrote this on January 6, 2014. You're welcome: Joozes and Druzes they both like...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

September 1, 1939

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

A lovely poem of gratitude

Prayer Michael Creagan When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set...

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Peripheral Visions and Other Poetic Perceptions

...is a new volume of poetry by reader Bruce Newman. Check out this lovely work!

September 2014

September 30, 2014

St. Jerome, Scholar and Crabapple

A favorite poem about a favorite saint on his feast day: The Thunderer by Phyllis...

January 2014

January 15, 2014

New blog!

It's called The Contradiction Reel. Many of the poems are on Catholic themes -- a...

June 2013

June 14, 2013

And speaking of Chesterton and Slaying Dragons…

Here's a fine verse dedicated to all my friends across the Pond: The Englishman by...

December 2012

December 06, 2012

“English is a Rich Language”

...is the English-speaker's way of warning foreigners that English makes no sense. Here's an awesome...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

Can’t have too much poetry

A reader writes: I haven't seen much poetry on your blog, so I was kind...

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