So Much Is Beyond

(Always Beyond Defeat cycle #3) When kings Or mystics arrive You know It must be God They blamed the star So far From your everyday Motherly concerns Except that life Only ever Partly Belongs to us So much is beyond Mysterious. ~ ~ This is the next in a cycle of poems inspired by scenes …

Meeting God

(Always Beyond Defeat cycle #2) ~ Two women greet Their bodies carry suns ~ Each will meet God ~ In different forms Of sacrifice and joy ~ And yet for now They can rejoice ~ Each will bring to birth A blessed boy. ~ ~ This is the next in a cycle of poems inspired …

We Share In This Most Miraculous Birth

Like seed The story Is sown And is grown In all the earth And we share In this most Miraculous birth.

My Silent Annunciation

There was no special star Arising at my birth ~ No Magi travelled From afar ~ No angel made A revelation ~ And yet that time’s Still sacred - ~ My life’s unique And only blessed ~ Silent Annunciation. ~ Annunciation, Fra Angelico

Glimpse Eternity Through Your Tears

At that particular moment You became ~ Having already Your nine months’ existence ~ Yet now you dared To leave one womb ~ For the nurturing power Of the universe shared ~ With everything visible And invisible ~ Now you were entire Yet still so entirely dependant ~ And though you cried At mortality ~ …

Born in Light

Accepting The gift ~ Of fatherhood Friendship ~ In spirit Of a son ~ Born again In light ~ In knowledge And faith ~  In presence And in praise. ~ Inspired by Thomas Merton,  https://thecontemplativewriter.com/2018/05/22/thomas-mertons-prayer-for-pentecost/

Unpredictably Marvellous

. Every day That dimension . Of holiness Hovering . At the limits Of life . The terrors Of birth . And of death The crises . Of life And even we . Carry within The numinous . In experience That is wonderfully . Predictable yet Unpredictably marvellous. . Image by gloverbh222 from Pixabay

Hope Emerges Transcendent

~ Though many Are lain ~ In the darkness Of earth ~ Justice and love Brighten ~ The empty Horizon ~ And hope emerges Transcendent ~ From a bloodied Painful birth. ~

Horizons Open

. Unique That gift . Of birth That time . That place Not shared . By grace Yet what . Horizons open As a lifetime . Stretches futurely Invitingly . Mysteriously Eternally. . Image by Uliana Pinto from Pixabay

We Are Changed

~ Our birth Is common ~ The cry for air And pain ~ And we are changed Never to be the same again ~ A new creation Now alive anew ~ To a world Of isolation ~ Suffering Joy ~ And Revelation. ~ Inspired by a beautiful poem by Anne Ridler posted by Malcolm Guite …