St Poems

St Clare

Today is the feast of St. Claire
A favourite personage of mine.
She defeated Saracens with her faith. 

The Temptation of St Anthony

The Temptation of St Anthony

I entered the desert, 
took a vow not to speak 
Lucifer’s here too, hoping 
silent men grow weak 
My path seemed so straight 
but quickly became oblique 
I question whether it is I 
that fetishise the bleak

The fish sang in bass tones,
dirges I once knew
A trapped fiend plucked strings 
from a

Ode to St Korvin

“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1:10)


In exile ‘midst the southern timbers’ walls,
My chamber bleeds the candle’s dimming thralls.

Upon the midnight blaze, I weep in vain,
Awaiting courts beneath Islamic reign.
For mother’s

Elysium of St Lucia

climb between the spires
hot bare feet on sugar beach
touch the winding surf
opening and closing eyes
i’ve left earth for heaven’s peak

tour leaves the pitons ~
on the bus, bananas and
warm cassava bread

ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2

 no turning back at nineteen years of 
age with bonded Love no eyes could 
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of aligning human Heart 
with Divine injunction none could part
self dies and dies some more mere cart
dark night after dark night only He 
could lift in Time convoluted sore 
by suffering

ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 1

  separated by vows of abstinence but 
forever bonded by Light entwined 
two parallel Orders twinned
in material poverty firm endured 
with One Heart beating to  
missions of Love ordained 
in living Truth never adjourned 

vessels of opposite gender 
each frolicking happy dancing 
and singing as children of 
holy futures Assisi blessed 
two exceptional

House I Carry

I carry a house upon my back,
A fragile frame of dreams and stone.
Its windows cracked, its timbers black,
But still I walk, and still alone.

Each wall is built from words unsaid,
From nights I stitched with fraying thread.
Its roof is shingled with the dread
Of all the tears I never shed.

I pass through valleys, rivers wide,
This house sways

On St Patrick's Day

not Irish 
     but on this day 
          I wear 
               emerald green 
              

St Patrick’s Day Blunder

Aunt Bertha’s been drinking with Mable
Ten Guinness cans litter their table
They’re ‘nissed as a pewt’
This fact they dispute
But cannot stand up, they’re unable!

Old Mable can’t rise from her seat
She’s cussing (words I daren’t repeat)
Then she yells, “Get help quick
Cos I’m feeling quite sick"
Which angers the barman named Pete!

Two students help Mable to stand
She blurts, “Getting

Pinch Me Collab

Irish tales of what a leprechaun gives away
If you don’t wear green on St Paddy’s Day 
a painful pinch
Like Suisse’s Grinch,
a green tie or  vest so invisible you’ll stay
                         

Snakes He'd Shoo

Have a Guiness and let’s toast St. Patrick
Whether laddie, lass or old codger geriatric
A bold gent with such clout
All Eire’s snakes he shooed out
Never has there been a saint so theatric! 
Robert
                       

St Paddy's Day Collab

Today we give cheers to St. Paddy
                               Taken from the sea lake, Lochmaddy            

My Feral Celtic Faerie Queene

babe
I stumbled home—
drenched in Guinness, soaked in guilt
the apartment crumbles, a shattered ruin
but you—your copper mane ablaze—
my wild Morrigan
a feral Celtic Faerie Queene
waging war against the wreckage.

You told me love was a lie
stitched by leprechauns
but your touch proves
there’s truth in everything
we break and rebuild.

Chased the wail of a banshee tonight
hoping to drown the shame
gulped it

St Patrick's Day

Haigh! Ye from Emerald Isles
Sky and seas hide in your eyes

Wear green pride on your sleeves
Stepdance, play harp and lyres

Wear a fresh shamrock, Pray
Happy Saint Patrick's day!

A ST PATRICK DAY DIADACTIC

A romano-british Christian
obtained long-lasting recognition
This  apostle to Ireland God did send
an evangelist,easy to comprehend

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