Hailemichael, newly blind,
Heads down the street without his cane.
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Poems
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Unpacking ‘St. Peter’s B-List’: Poems on faith, laughter, guilt, anguish and hope
The new selection of the Catholic Book Club is a collection of poems about the saints.
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‘The Translation of the House of Loreto’
You bet it takes a miracle to explain
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Late in October
Into their once full garden that’s now/ close to barren, two ancient nuns shuffle/ along looking for a few late autumn blossoms/ to paint their lives.
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or A Little Levity About Leaven
Be praised, O Lord, for this bit of mystery, / which lifts, which lightens.
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The 2019 Foley poetry contest: Metaphors so simple and clear
Entrants to this year’s contest included poems about human trafficking, the Mueller Report, priestly abuse and screen addiction.
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Searching Out Walt Whitman
I know your ghost
still drifts like a dirty angel through this town.
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Come Is the Love Song
A poem by Jessica Powers from The Second “America” Book of Verse, a collection of the best of America poetry, 1930 to 1955.