Category Archives: poetry

Good Friday: his own people

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

At the beginning of the Gospel according to John, we read that, He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and … Continue reading →

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Maundy Thursday: the mother of all mercy

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

What should Jesus have done about Judas? In a way, Thursday was the final chance. There is a pipeline from here to the tomb. Once Judas has left the table, Jesus knows that his fate is sealed. Yet earlier in … Continue reading →

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Holy Week

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Seven days. Seven shades of suffering silence. Seven last words: thirst, famine, fever, finality, yet, too, there is forgiveness, family, a future spit from split lips, a dry tongue still willing to kiss the face of God

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The prayer of Lazarus

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

The prayer of Lazarus, silent by necessity. Continue reading →

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Marked men

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Later, they sit silent as the grave side by side,
watching a late sun set over the Jordan… Continue reading →

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Well

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

“Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did.” John 4:29 Continue reading →

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In time

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Without time,
can even God make a beginning? Continue reading →

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Penitence

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

After William Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” 1800 Recollected in tranquillity, passions burnt beyond their embers. Unguarded breath conjures dust devils, smoke without fire, echoes of disgrace remembered by the ashen light of dawn. Dignified in variegated gray, sifted, judiciously, … Continue reading →

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Bitter

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Stone on my tongue cold and bitter grit rasps my teeth sets them on edge sharp and dangerous; my heart is in my mouth. Take this heart of stone the bitter grit; feed me sweet flesh feed me sweet honeyed … Continue reading →

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Return

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Without prayer my words are empty air Without silence I bellow in the wind Without praise my anger turns to bitterness Without passion my blood runs wasted cold Without humility endurance loses its endeavour Without return disquiet finds no rest … Continue reading →

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