December 26th, 2007
We hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas!
To help you celebrate, check out Catholic Radio International’s Poetry of Pavel Chichikov page, where you can find links to audio files from CRI in which Pavel reads from his poetry. The most recent are his Christmas poems on the Adoration of the Shepherds–simply beautiful.
May 15th, 2007
Adam’s Curse
by William Butler Yeats
We sat together at one summer’s end,
That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,
And you and I, and talked of poetry.
I said, “A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen [...]
April 9th, 2007
by Daniel Murphy
(for Jesus Crucified, Who loved us until the end
composed before the Blessed Sacrament on Holy Thursday, April 5, 2007)
The discerning winemaker eyes
His choicest grapes-ruddy, round, robust,
And admires a cluster of sunlighted promise,
Taking them gently in hand, plucking them from the vine.
The diligent winemaker crushes
His choicest grapes-ruddy, round, robust,
And beholds the now-squat elements (skin, [...]
February 18th, 2007
The Inner Paints the Outer
The Inner—paints the Outer—
The Brush without the Hand—
Its Picture publishes—precise—
As is the inner Brand.
—Emily Dickinson, #451
Dickinson’s poem reminds us that what we do (“Outer”) arises from what we are (“Inner”). Only people of duplicity appear other than they are. People of integrity strive to match outer and inner.
Fundamental to our inner [...]
February 6th, 2007
Anyone who has read Maureen McQuerry’s wonderful new young adult fantasy, Wolfproof, will recognize in her style more than a touch of the poet—it was certainly one of the first things I noticed, and loved, when reading the manuscript!It should be no surprise then that Maureen is indeed an accomplished and award-winning poet, and her [...]
