poetry

Discover U.S. Catholic poetry that explore faith, the beauty of creation through the art of language, and a deeper appreciation of the spiritual life.

Midnight Curtains

Won’t You part these dense clouds That I might glimpse the stars Those dancing lights Captivated in their celestial rites? For above this midnight shroud...

Cephas

Two things you can do with a rock: you can add it to a pile of stones stacked atop one another in layers, the ones at the top pressing down to the ones...

Soul, Seek Yourself in Me

Soul, seek yourself in Me. And through Me, seek Me in yourself. How lucky, cherished soul, to be able to design yourself in Me. No painter, no matter how...

The Wilderness

In the wild We join hands With the sacred, the tempted, the defiled. All become one In the desert dance Under the penetrating sun. In this place of wilderness...

You know now

Haws push through tips of thorny branches, turn from green to red, scent of meadowsweet rises on wings of gladness while pink blackberry blossoms emerge with a...

God’s Beauty

God’s Beauty O Beauty far beyond all beauties of the world, you cut without pain, and painlessly you ruin the love of mere creatures. What a knot you tie from...

Migration

We drove north from Seattle for two hours to see them, geese traveling from one faraway place to another. Evening approaches early in January, we turn down a...