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My father spoke Gospel words to me One quiet afternoon inside his house Looking out the window from his cosy chair He suddenly pronounced as with a papal air ‘Heaven and earth will pass away But my words will never pass away’   And then he looked at me with a steady look We saidContinue reading “Easter”

War has never stopped Remember that 1945 did not bring peace It left us poverty and pain And great mistrust The Cold War came Before the settled dust   McCarthy witch-hunts Then came Vietnam And proxy wars US shenanigans The age of spies Governments overthrown El Salvador and Chile Lands forlorn   US/Russia stand-off AllContinue reading “What To Do”

Here endeth the lesson They might have said On closing up the tomb Enclosed the dead Here put to sleep Shut up and rendered dumb The lovely life The word of kingdom come   Here darkness reigns supreme The world outside Pays no attention Lives in its own pride And on a slab of stoneContinue reading “Done With Death”

After the funeral I got a taxi home All the folk had gone away I was left alone I feared the lonely moment Of opening the door Knowing as I stepped inside You are here no more   I felt the warm air straightaway The welcome of my home The place we shared contentedly NoContinue reading “At The Tomb”

He was the only one to treat him with respect The others came to make him do their will He the Governor he the one with power Faced by a mob this would be their hour   The object of their hatred was brought in And stood before him quiet calm within And when heContinue reading “Quod Scripsi, Scripsi”

Someone told me a story today And told it very well He made it come alive for me Though a sad story to tell   A story about a passion Suffered on a cross About a man a lovely man And about this world’s loss   I heard the rumbling of a crowd I heardContinue reading “Jesus in Straide”

They are so oppressed and we are free That’s how we see our world our history We are the good guys don’t you know They are bad lost in ice and snow   Chinese are very foreign very strange Up to now they have been out of range Now they are on the rise theirContinue reading “Words from the Cross”

  I recommend the article listed here below.   American Committee for US – Russia Accord   Nicolai N Petro: Tragedy, Dialogue and Politics: Applying Tragedy’s Therapy to Russian Relations with the West   December 22 2020   In this article the author, Nicolai Petro tells us that we see tragedy as a sad eventContinue reading “Greek Tragedy and the Present Crisis”

Real men in the real world are secular humanists Religion just plays games to just feel safe This is the modern ‘real world’ view Religion has nothing to say to you Well I’m sorry but you’re wrong Completely wrong   We are dealing with the matter of being human We all have things to seeContinue reading “Addressing Human Tragedy”

An old man on Clare Island years ago Spoke of his relation with the land He lived on a small holding He knew the plants he grew He knew his dogs and donkey They were all his crew And books he had a-plenty To teach him history And isolation taught him Compassion and charity  Continue reading “Wisdom on Clare Island”

When my father came home from war He was tormented in his sleep Nightmares came a-visiting Enough to you weep Fearful things he’d seen out there Blood and death and gore Now his peaceful days were plagued My mother comfort bore   Tonight I watch a programme Railway Killers tale A man asks for aContinue reading “Judas”

Things come to a head They always do Jesus in Jerusalem Trouble stirs anew Judas takes the piece of bread Bread we are meant to share And goes away into the night Into the cold dark air   Ukraine land of wheat and sunflower oil Land of living bread Land of bitter fighting So manyContinue reading “Into The Night”

Bethany and welcome too Friends around the table Place of ease and happiness Eat what you are able   Familiar faces Lazarus Brought back from the dead Living proof before your eyes Death’s defeat instead   Love’s anointing given Perfume fills the room Jesus gentle patient Conscious of his doom   Soon his living breathingContinue reading “Bethany”

My bread maker makes a loaf of bread And fills my kitchen with the fragrant smell of flour My house is warm and peaceful This Monday morning hour I sit awhile and read a holy book Benedict on Holy Week And the life it took   I go on You Tube David Starkey there AContinue reading “Monday Morning”

Why apple pie? Apple pie and custard Why apple pie? The most joyous thing that I can have The root of all my happiness Be good to me Why then it’s apple pie   Because my Nanna made it That is why My father’s mother Knew we’d be coming by And Sunday afternoon The pastryContinue reading “Nanna’s Apple Pie”