Category Archives: poetry

Following

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The brightness beckoning, reckoning light years away, in the beginning, there was a star which now calls them from afar to follow, stumbling in the daytime, in the forests, fog-filled valleys, rallying with breathless joy on the mountaintop where all … Continue reading →

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Holy Innocents

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

The hard historical evidence for the massacre of the innocents of Bethlehem may be sketchy, thank God, yet the meme pervades our culture, from Moses to Jesus; even though we can barely comprehend the idea, we admit it to our … Continue reading →

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Christmas haiku

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Christmas Day When we pray to a newborn baby, naked, poor whom angels adore

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Words

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

There are no words for some days; there are no words to take away the grimness of the children’s story, fantastic in its horror, incredible yet all too real; we reel, we recoil; there are no words. Even as we … Continue reading →

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Zechariah finds his voice

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

This week, we get to read the Song of Zechariah, the loosened tongue of a man whose loins have finally produced an heir after decades of longing and loss; the praise of a priest who was struck dumb by the … Continue reading →

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Luke 21:25-36

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Dissipation, drunkenness and the worries of this life circle their prey; the room dizzies, spins, sickening; swirling skirts’ colours and patterns staining the food, pulling you into the dance; something is calling, falling … snapping back into sharp-edged focus, technicolor … Continue reading →

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Hallowe’en

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

The day before, the bones scatter on the valley floor, helped by the clean-up vulture crew, laid out to dry in the sun. There is a photograph hanging of the witch of Endor, grotesque in its details, she is all … Continue reading →

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Story of your life

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

The dog ears, with their corners turned down we tell over and over – love stories, horror stories, old jokes and limericks, edges worn smooth with the turning. Unlike those sections which someone tried to tear out, to shred, to … Continue reading →

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Rites of passage

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

My mother’s funeral did not take place in an American high school auditorum, neither was the local rag reporter in attendance. No one wore football pads or swimming gear; I was not in clericals, being unordained as yet, and having … Continue reading →

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Breathless

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

It isn’t as though there is not enough air to go around. Even the sci-fi movies – the ones I’ve seen- have yet to pit the black-hatted baddies against the white-toothed heroes over the last supply of oxygen for the … Continue reading →

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