Category Archives: poetry

Revolve

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Our silence blinding noise our haste a purpling bruise our invention miscarried justice moebius-stripped somersaulting our balance blurred and silver leaving lightning after-burns, devils dancing our defence a deformed pitchfork our hope embalmed our light eclipsed out darkness undermined our … Continue reading →

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Cleansing the temple

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Christ, cleanse our temple courts where money changes hands to purchase  sacrificial lambs offered on the high altar hymned with thoughts and prayers and the black sheep, tethered, set aside for the devotions of white-robed acolytes, while mourners shuffle ceaseless intercessions … Continue reading →

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St David’s

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Sheer skyfall, blue to blue, plumb-lined from the heavens to the deep measures a cliff, eroded from creation, where only dune-grass and sheep may grow, miraculously rooted as the earth turns. We set out on a narrow path littered with … Continue reading →

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We came here after Columbine

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Let’s paint them
red, white, and blue
have some clergyman
compose a pledge
teach our children to recite it
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Do not give your heart to the ashes

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

The landscape within which we live is littered with sin, from the scars we inflict upon the earth on up through the twisted veins of hearts that would burn down a church built in the image of God’s mercy. And it is impossible to stand here in an attitude of repentance tonight without acknowledging the complicity of our common life in the deaths of 17 students, children, at a high school in Florida this afternoon. Our participation in systems of sin, as its priests and as its victims, is as inevitable as the ice of winter. Continue reading →

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The Feast of the Presentation

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Simeon has been dismissed. Anna shed her widow’s weeds, went dancing with the turtle doves, snowing feathers; all that remains is dust and the rubble of a memory, the echo of a prayer, and a child, caught by his woven … Continue reading →

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Holy innocents

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Their wisdom was not wanted by the powers that be, in case it would unseat their certainty of their own anointed state. Warned in a dream, they went home another way, pursued by rumours of mothers kneeling in the ashes of … Continue reading →

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Consider hibernation

Posted on January 2, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

a sabbatical of sorts… Continue reading →

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Wordless

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Wordless came the Word of God; not silent, as the night revolved around him snuffling, yawning, suckling, sighing, crying out the love of God, wordless, gazing into the eternity between one body and the next.

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Psalm for a commute

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

My God, my God, the traffic is backed up and there is no exit in sight. I am hemmed in all around by hostility; horns sound their derision and air brakes vent their anger. Evil eyes blink yellow and red: … Continue reading →

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