poetry

New Video uploaded to Youtube

I've put together another video, this time of Brother Gregory going to Sunday church. I've tried to give outsiders a view of life as a...

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Above Holy Transfiguration Monastery

Late June. Three days ago we kept the Feast Of John, the Great Forerunner, at his birth. Midsummer's sun is glorious in the East, My...

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Sestina of Loving Kindness

A silent pleading, uttered in compassion – A wish? A prayer? – to set its object free From fear and suffering, held instead in love: In...

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Nunc Dimittis

Again he treads the well-worn path, Faith an old remembered habit, The dim recall of some ancient hope Almost gone in weary, wearing,...

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Two Works of Caravaggio

I In jaundiced skin enclosing bitter bile, And self-deceived by hedonistic lies, Sick Bacchus, in defiance, tries to smile, The smirk...

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Shepherds Law

In Shepherd country on Northumbrian moor, Terraced in former ruins on the hill, Four hermit cells, for simple needs appointed –...

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