Poetry
“Acquainted With the Night” ~ The…
I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.I have…
A Paschal Poem ~ The Imaginative Conservative
The last cool star of dawn wasforetelling the brightest sunshine;no cloud, no drift of mist was…
The First 12 Stations of the Cross ~ The Imaginative…
The Stations of the Cross, which form the core of my book Sounding the Seasons, are intended to be…
Two Sonnets ~ The Imaginative Conservative
IV Jesus meets His Mother This darker path into the heart of painWas also hers whose love enfolded…
The Faith of E.E. Cummings ~ The Imaginative…
E.E. Cummings’ attitude to dogma and formal religion may have remained skeptical, but true to his…
Prayer That Pierces ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Now, in Passiontide, Christ becomes all the more visibly, our companion. We walk with him and see…
Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem ~ The Imaginative…
This strange Holy Week has begun in tears: tears of frustration, tears of lament, and for so many…
Is April the Cruelest Month? ~ The Imaginative…
meta April is the cruellest month…. The opening words of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot are amongst…
An Elegy for Harold Bloom ~ The Imaginative…
For Harold Bloom, our intellectual strength, the strength of Western civilization, consists in the…
The Poet and the Universe of Thought ~ The Imaginative…
The poet relies upon on a shared understanding that gives his imagination the oxygen to sustain it.…
