MY POETRY

WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW Do not despise the sinking dread Do not turn away from that hollow ache To not know is to be human. Do not hate the...

FIND ME My eyes rise to reveal these wet cheeks glowing under the pale cast of the winter moon Skyward, I lift up my cry, a frail lament,...

CONSIDER THE SKY Where do you travel hidden in shadow, your black waves in ecstasy, churning under the broad, undulant wings of Seraphim...

THE END TIMES Stretch out your hands Here, at the bleeding edge Here, at the trembling cusp of everything Bless the bright canyon into...

WHAT IT’S LIKE (6th of January 2021, a Wednesday) Here is what it’s like: You’re standing on the cliff’s edge over a deep dry canyon of...

ONLY WONDER KNOWS You’ll never really know anything until you’ve listened to the worship of glaciers or for long quiet days bent your ear...

WILL YOU? I came to the edge beyond the yowling cities of the Earth beyond the yearning harbor of Círden beyond the lost shores of...

INTERSTITIAL SLIPSTREAM I seek you in the maelstrom of the mundane world my finger on the pulse of that eternal thread that lives between...

LET THERE BE Let there be light and agents of light you and me with eyes wide open seeing as we’re meant to things as they are Let us...

QUARANTINE I need a cool wind and stratus clouds at sunrise the way they break the light into a thousand shards I need silence the kind...

TO THE LOST SOULS I came in the late morning of my life seeking love I searched every face for that rare elixir of true recognition Who...

SO LIVE there are places on mountains that dare you to live secret hidden places you cannot see from the valley dead-end box canyons...

WHEN A STORY DIES You will feel lost All of the maps you have known will fail you leave you utterly abandoned in a new land that does not...

AWAKE Come now Don’t be afraid You are stronger Than you pretend Far fiercer and More ruthless You don’t need Any more strength You just...

GLENINAGH MOR I suppose it was the way the pale light fell across my scar on the shores of Connemara on that late afternoon Or the way...

YOUR REAL ADVENTURE to lose the madness you must let go of all the things you tell yourself you ought to be you must die to all artifice...

I HOLD FIRE I hold fire in my secret heart that drives my walking no matter where it is I mean to go this vow is mine though I do not...

LAUDS The first movement comes in silence a soft ripple on the surface like silk in the breeze slowly then the sun still hidden away...

THE LONGING OF WONDER I could ask you a thousand times do you love me and it wouldn’t be enough I catch the scent of you like a wild wolf...

A LARGER LIFE I came this morning to the sea felt the wildness playing there, the howl of the wind nipping at the sand, the froth of the...

A RIVER’S TRUE SONG Tell me, do you know where Divinity hides the dawn? Have you seen where She cradles the stars, or how He strews them...

BUNDLES OF STARLIGHT This being human feels sometimes like screaming across a great canyon trying to be heard even though you’re right...

THE WAKING HOURS To know your true path you must listen all the way through to the other side of everything that is trying to speak to...

BEGIN AGAIN It’s a murder when they tell you you cannot do what you dream My mother used to say you can’t always get what you want She,...

THE SECRET The secret, you see, is realizing there is no such thing as ordinary time. Every day is the day of salvation, every moment...

LETTING GO It’s like a parting you never wanted to come a kissing goodbye and then a long slow silence covering your skin like a chill in...

INVOCATION TO ALIVENESS I am the river dancing I am the black wolf’s wet mane I am the winter moon rising I am the waves of late summer...

JUST STEP IN Come easy now move slowly be gentle with yourself as you take this step the step you know you must take the step you long...

DRINKING COFFEE The clouds are settling now into the steep ravines between the mountains they huddle away from the first light of morning...

STAY STEADY NOW Stay steady now Grab hold Grab hold of Something And be brave. Everything is telling you the tempest is not yet done. You...

PERMISSION I see you now At long last The one I only knew by happenstance By chance moments, too fleeting A glance in a mirror in a glass...

HEARTGUARD Peace that undulant caress that soothes the mad rogue running wild in my heart’s chambers in ways beyond my fevered grasp she...