No more solitary confinement

No more solitary confinement

We never left the place where we were born, Have only lived one day, but every day, Have walked a thousand miles yet only worn The grass between our work and home away, Lonely we were, though never left alone, The solitude familiar to the poor Is feeling that the...
Unanswered prayer

Unanswered prayer

Mute, with signs I speak: Blind, by groping seek: Heed; yet nothing hear: Feel; find no one near.   Deaf, eclipsed, and dumb, Through this gloom I come On the time-path trod Toward ungranted God.   Carnal, I can claim Only his known name Dying, can but be...
Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

There is an island there is no going to but in a small boat the way the saints went, travelling the gallery of the frightened faces of the long drowned, munching the gravel of its beaches. So I have gone up the salt lane to the building with the stone altar and the...
God’s fantastic move

God’s fantastic move

Tripping over Joy What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint?   The saint knows that the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just a Fantastic Move   That the saint is now continually Tripping...
I despise myself and curse my fate

I despise myself and curse my fate

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone between my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising Haply I think...