Category Archives: poetry

Inspire

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Why wait for inspiration when before the breath that catches on creation, shucks life into eternity, expires before the face of God aspired the Spirit had already taken wing, hefting feathers into flight, breaching the horizon of the first Word, advent of the … Continue reading →

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We talked about this

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Shackled to the shadows of a brutalist building, words barely grazing our lips, we talked about this. Our breath stirred the air, that sabbath exhalation at the end of creation; the wordless sigh of God.

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Dead Sea Prayer

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Floating in brine designed not for propagating but for pickling; Suspended between peace and petrification, love and devotion. When will your waters break afresh, bringing a new creation to its first astonished breath?

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Holy Cross Day

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

A little sandpaper and stain, you would never tell the blood within the grain, but the wood knows where it’s been. Continue reading →

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By halves

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

My mother’s mantra haunts me: Never do things by halves; Continue reading →

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Heron

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Heron: hunched, gray, no plumage to waste on a kingfisher display; patient as a vulture, impassive as a judge, dangling the business end of its beak like a sword until an itch hits its wing-pit; it contorts it like a silly … Continue reading →

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Falling star

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The sun does not set; it becomes moot. The security light clicks on instead, sensing danger as water falls like silver, holds its form uncontained I do not expect anyone at prayer on a night such as this but something … Continue reading →

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Swimming in prayer

Posted on July 21, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

though the womb of God is wide
I will not drown Continue reading →

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Why pray

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

How can we turn away, when love pursues us
with such glorious desire? Continue reading →

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Fraction

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The crack of the communion host like a whip, like bone, like the click of handcuffs; how far we have roamed from the upper room: warm bread softly torn, love-fuelled bodies, blood fired by passion’s wine. You come to us … Continue reading →

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