Poetry
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Poetry
Images A rainbow in the misty air, diamonds in a woman’s hair, incense rising to the light, the moon brightening…
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Purgatory
Soul: Come, show me where God’s house is, I’m a stranger in paradise. Guide: You’re not ready for that just…
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Santa Cruz Cemetery, Dili and Austerity in Greece
Santa Cruz Cemetery, Dili A small, square, treeless plot, a jumble of whitewashed graves, rising to a low wall and…
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Last Words
Last words, so banal, Before the chasm that divides before and after. This world and the next. Words of…
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Metaphorical marbles
Nauru, 1896, a cargo ship arrives. Strange rock mystifies the captain; he picks it up, turns it over and over.…
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Last Letter
Come before winter don’t wait for the peacock to birth-cry spring or fallen grapes to raisin on the sand when…
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Life Just after Death
Like a dream that fades into dawn the old world withdraws, and a new one is born less ponderous than…
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Miracles
Would I like a miracle? If miracles are oddities – a leaf left stranded on a winter branch, a thickened…
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Notre Dame 2019
We are The Thorns in His Crown yet we have been saved from this inferno – is it to remind…
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Image; sleeping in the sun
A fetal figure on a footpath sleeps in grey on grey with fingers and one thumb cast over eyes as…
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The Candle
(Dedicated to the memory of a much loved member of the Mooroolbark conference, Val Stafford, who passed away on 28…
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Leaders
Though so different, you would have understood one another: he, smoothly spoken, and you with your coffee-grinder voice. After looking…
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Three transfigurations
1. Vincent de Paul’s On a Sunday in 1622, on a royal barge on the Seine, Vincent is chaplain to…
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After purgatory
It was Saint Vincent de Paul who tells us that when St Jeanne de Chantal died, he saw her soul…
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Unconditional love
Walking the curve of the beach, hearing the sea and cicadas in concert, watching galahs wheeling red in the morning…
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Solidarity is the tenderness of the people
There is a beautiful saying from the Sandinistas that Solidarity is the tenderness of the people Solidarity Is that profound…
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