Poetry

ORIGINAL POETRY (Click on the title to go to the blog entry where the poem is posted) 

The poet often taps into what Jung called our collective unconscious, giving voice to our humanity and meaning to our struggles.  A good poem, therefore, tells us something we already know. When we read it or hear it we say, “Ah, yes.” An exceptional poem tells us something we are on the verge of knowing. When we read it or hear it, we say, “Oh my!”

                                                     
                                                                             ~ Charles Kinnaird

Slowly God Arises

Sand Crabs

Stopping by Publix on a Snowy Evening  
(with apologies to Robert Frost)

Southern Snowfall

Threnody Praise

To Thomas Merton

A Small Brown Bird, a Red Bandanna, and a Fat Man Coughing 
(Day One at a Trappist Monastery)

A Moment of Grace

Sitting with the Vision

Remembrance

To the Priest Without a Collar

On Crabgrass and Curmudgeons

Distant Hope

Under the Double Helix

Dream Train

Urban Crows

Marginal Bunting

An Early Time

An Ancient Harp

To a Local Goddess

To Our Lady

To the Queen of Heaven

Reflecting upon Michelangelo's Pieta

Shakespeare's Horse

When Towers Collapse

Sitting on the Rim

Stonehenge

The Path

On the Buddha’s Belly

To Zarathustra

The Sonnet

Empty Spaces

Unmasking the Mask
(Lessons Learned from an Epidemic)

Jerusalem and Hiroshima: Legacies of Concentrated Effort

Autumn Beatitudes

A Blanket for an Old Man

To Colonel Stone Johnson

The Universe Was Never about Me

(The Eyes of the Universe)

Theophany

I Shall Go Quickly

To Kierkegaard

Winter View

Hercules

Happy Grass

Suddenly Robins

Fire in the Morning

Curiosity Takes a Turn
(Poem form Space)

An Unread Book
(Finding William Blake)

She Sat in Autumn

Sarajevo, 1984


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