Index to the Poems

Poems of Faith

My motivation for writing poetry is to explore, deepen and communicate my faith. 

How to do things with words

Day light

We forgive

Why me?

Right to choose

Charisms

No visible marks

Rendezvous

Anagnorisis

Living with uncertainties

Where I stood

Sinai

Pilatus + Hierosolyma + Civis Romanus

Echoes

Offerings

[in the ages]

haiku

Imaginary Affidavits

A subset of Poems of Faith. These poems were not originally conceived as a group. Each is in its way an imagined witness statement. I like the word affidavit for its forensic weight and the resonance of faith in its etymology.

Abel

The Way to Midian

Parables

Legion

Galilee

Lazarus

Mary of Bethany

Cyrenian

Veronica

Magdalena (sooner)

Magdalena (later)

Poems of Wonder

For the most part these are not explicitly faith poems. They do express something of my awe at the created ....

Euler in the Garden

haiku

Occasional and Other Poems

Some quite personal stuff here. Some quite playful. Some more experimental.

Markdown

Possession : a Conundrum

For Amelia

Homoophone

The Hidden Cost: An Engagement is Announced

Cosmological Grammar

Ekphrasis – Dylan Thomas

Red Planet

Steel Hulls

Ulysses in Tension

Togetherness

In This Battered Caravanserai

haiku