Category Archives: poetry

Unfinished

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Silk, the colour of home patterned anew knotted behind; her fingers ache to run through his hair, silk upon silk; almost done. She leaves her gift on the bed, silk upon silk, runs to the airport, where she waits

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Truth

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

  Truth is not proud, running his calloused hands across the welt of guilt, knowing good from evil, deliverance from dependence on temptation to sway the scales. Truth is not innocent of the burden of each deficit of decency, quavering … Continue reading →

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Mortar

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

blood & dust, water, sand, bone and sinew, wet cement slapped, nails etching names within the walls

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Magi

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Stargazers, seeking signs in the old, cold light of the heavens; startled to find God’s grace reflected instead by the bright tears of a child, if only they will stoop so low to pay him homage.

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Unmoved

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is not my place to regret the turning of the earth upon its axis, nor to mourn the passing of the year, the starlight winked and blinked across the empty spaces, fallen, finally, at our feet, and gone. It … Continue reading →

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Shoulder season

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

The Spirit keeps reaching, gripping my shoulders, telling me to sit, stay a while. Over my shoulder, promising, promising soon, soon, surging on to one more thing, I feel the snag of her fingers between my bones, aching from raking … Continue reading →

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The Feast of St Andrew

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

“No, the word is very near to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to observe.” (Deuteronomy 30:14) “And he said to them, ‘Follow me …’ Immediately they left their nets and followed him.” (Matthew … Continue reading →

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Be still and know

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

Because it is in silence that we hear behind the chaos of our own hearts the stillness of God suspended awaiting our creation

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Election day prayer

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

“My kingdom is not of this world, you say, yet, “The kingdom of God is at hand.” And so we wait, and watch, and vote, and pray, “Thy kingdom come,” all the while hoping that each small act of kindness, … Continue reading →

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All Hallows Eve

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

spirits wake the crones take bones and withered skin to dance by starlight  feigning beauty phoenix feather passion soon consumed, confused the saints dream resurrection, raise a hymn of praise against the silence of the night a cowl thrown across … Continue reading →

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