Hopkins Poems - Poems about Hopkins

...The school year’s ending. ‘Spring Fling’ is tonight (Saturday) the biggest event (concert) of the year, and next week - final exams. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be a senior in about 2 weeks - whe......Read the rest...

...A sheriff I was in a small town, seen fifty years, and earned no renown, when Black Ken and his gang did come down to Mick Callahan’s big saloon. He saw I was the only law here, saw in my eyes......Read the rest...

...The following scenario occurred via the guest sharing with me when I was managing the front desk at a hotel in San Francisco, fronting Union Square. I found his morals promising and c......Read the rest...

...In Our Feasts, We Both Drank Lover's Wine, Second poets tribute series, third poet Gerard Manley Hopkins Blood that entices with its red-glow appeal Its bright warmth into a wanton soul seeks S......Read the rest...

...In Memoriam Quietly Always Close Are they whispers, then, settling So gently upon that slightest breeze wending Over the granite crosses and statues of cradling angels, Which stand in......Read the rest...

...ONE: Is our Near East in Asia? Are Israelis "Asians"? People from India are called South Asians The same folk in Caribbean are East Indians! Fancy that: West Indians being called East Indians ST......Read the rest...

...*last winter break* I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic bag over my hea......Read the rest...

...Lisa and I went to a reception, yesterday evening, for students who’d landed summer fellowships at a particular hospital in Boston. (Yeah us!) It wasn’t formal, so I wore a crimson cropped sweater, a......Read the rest...

... "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." Quote by _ Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) I lo......Read the rest...

...You’re the reason why I write poetry. Seeing beauty and promise in the mundane. You are the music – reverberating gong. When you smile, I have won the lottery. I walk around grinning like the ins......Read the rest...

...Watching Beth interact with her Kindergarten class mates was precious to watch. Beth was a lovely little girl with big brown eyes, who was very affectionate. One afternoon, the school principal, ca......Read the rest...

...If we can’t agree on fifty-one percent of what affects us both we’re doomed Like the baby and the bathwater our future lost in critical disdain All politics of division a self-imposed, self-......Read the rest...

...The dominoes fall, yours or another’s, life hurts your heart, your brain - feels insane. Where does one turn - do you make calls, run to church, grab a blanket, roll into a ball? The call went ......Read the rest...

...My faith moves me As much as it moves Mountains Past obstacles, Past gargantuan roadblocks. Sometimes, I'm a stalled old jalopy...Read the rest...

...Every drop that falls from the sky Can transform into a pearl; Every leaf that falls from a tree Can turn out to be a greeting card; If you have faith in God and yourself. The more you live in......Read the rest...