Category Archives: poetry

The usual

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

I started the meeting excusing myself – “This has been an unusual day,” – when, cut short by an out-loud laugh, I wondered how long, in fact, it had been since we talked about anything normal, reasonable, regular; accepting the … Continue reading →

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Boston marathon

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Innocent desire: the race to outrun the bounds of one’s own body. With love and prayers from Cleveland.

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Good Friday

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

This, too, is the day that the Lord has made; shall we, then, be glad in it?

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Things that I struggle with

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Things that I struggle with, in no particular order: Unscrewing the lid from a new jar of pickles. Unravelling tangled yarn chewed by the cat. Understanding the holy mystery of the empty tomb. Untying the umbilical cords that bind us … Continue reading →

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Aflame

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Aflame with a passion which has yet to be quite requited, reaching out tongues of everlasting fire to melt the perennially hard-hearted with the patience of Time itself, burning with love, yet unconsumed.

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Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

A poem from a couple of years ago, when the only time in the day that I saw my husband was as our cars passed on opposite sides of the highway’s central divide. This year, he’s out of state. Oh … Continue reading →

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Spiritual warfare: a sonnet with apologies to Hamlet

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” have nothing on the armour-piercing fury of a bullet tipped with wormwood gall; no arbitrary missile this, but launched from beyond the earth; underworld to surface borne on wings of fire, brimstone burning, … Continue reading →

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Seven below

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

One from the archives for a chilly day This morning, on the school run, even the sun did not want to rise, lounging fatly in the treetops, red and round, heavily globular, a frozen popsicle on a bare tree stick. … Continue reading →

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Waving goodbye

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Whenever we left she wept, never knowing which time would be the last. (Sometimes, poetry is simply laying the ghosts out in the daylight.)

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In bodily form

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

When our bodies betray us, let us down, we berate them, hesitate to call them holy, when, after all, they are the sacrament of God’s creative genius, each featherlight touch a reminder of the love that engendered our creation, redemption, … Continue reading →

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