By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link '...there will always be that secret elsewhere..' - Penelope Lively, 'City of the Mind' Skipping rop...

By John Morris Healy © Picture Link The folksinger -Looking Like A white trash Lucrezia Borgia Looking Like A slutty St. Cecelia. - Moans...

by John Morris Healy © Picture Link Heartless Dull Sorrow Resident In A shadowed corner Where -Hair Matted. Faces:- Pale and Agony twiste...

By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link Always here and now In all the blood and mess Everyone is born - Their start holds fast Then fades aw...

Excerpt from page 40 of Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis by Kazuaki Tanahashi © 2018 Waka: Japanese Poem, 31 Syllables Pict...

Excerpt from page 40 of Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis by Kazuaki Tanahashi © 2018 Waka: Japanese Poem, 31 Syllables Pict...

By Alfred Lord Tennyson © 1832 (source) Picture Link The mariners are put into an altered state when they eat the lotos. During this time...

By John Morris Healy © Picture Link Tonight:- - Winter... (Cold and Locking Whatever shelter One may Happen to inhabit.) - My mind dissol...

By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link PRAYER Enter a space not always there Follow a known ritual, Wait for the gift, find no trick To mak...

By John Morris Healy © Picture Link River bank ensconced An old man Mind encapsulated In water flow Time mantra... Two River Rats Defiant...

By Brain McClorry, SJ © Picture Link A wind buckled and cart-wheeled Cigarettes end over tip across the lawn, Downed the bowl of red gera...

By Monica Cleland © March 17, 2000 Picture Link The pansy lives all its life in the happiness of being. Once the glorious petals unfold,...

By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link ...we made the mistake of toppling the Dictator without religious reforms... we needed to touch both...

By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link Always here and now In all the blood and mess Everyone is born - Their star holds fast Then fades aw...

By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link So slow in the formal garden Bemused by the usual blooms With long-life identification tags And the ...

By Jenny Buzek © Picture Link How can I love you like the young girl I once was? Years have passed... Resentments have accumulated... She...

By Jenny Buzek © July 26, 1996 Picture Link He yearns for freedom Independence Rankles at my questioning Of where he's been Growing, stre...

By Jenny Buzek April, 1998 © Picture Link I don't know where the time goes There simply isn't enough The days are full, the nights too sh...

By Brian McClorry © Picture Link The writings's flow of belief Lifts out events that chime: Bethlehem and Egypt needed For the past to se...

By Brian McClorry, SJ © Picture Link Word made flesh, God made man - A gospel or a creed Fine persistence Here where the room Is small en...