Category Archives: Poetry

When all the forces of darkness Are arrayed against you When howls and screams Calling for blood Reach your ears When blinding fog Clouds your vision There’s only one thing left to do When bonds stretch and break Your body is beaten and bruised Your heart is crushed In iron grip Your spirit cries outContinue reading “Poem: When Darkness Closes In”

Cold ice Covers all In splendid beauty His sister wind Blows with winter fury He clings to branches Trunks, lines, and wires Desperate to survive And she blows all the harder He clings with strength Of death-defying desperation Yet all his efforts are for naught As winter wind blows Unabated Cold ice loses His struggleContinue reading “Poem: Winter Fury”

From dust Man was made To dust he shall return My grandfather came From County Armagh In North of Ireland A land where apple orchards grow Where Saint Patrick and Brian Boru Made nests for a time He came to the new world Found love and made home And Death claimed him Before life foundContinue reading “Poem: Grandfather Hogg”

I collapsed Upon my cot Beaten, battered, bruised Exhausted and wearied Whole soul tired “Rest, my child,” She said to me “You carry a heavy load The weight of your fears Frustrations and failings The heaviest of all Is the code you hold And raise above all else Ease your heart, my son You doContinue reading “Poem: Comfort From On High”

Muscles clench Tissues scream Tendons protest fiercely Darkness courses through my viens Health unbalanced Mind and body Body and mind Filled with deadly peril I know what I must do To forge the sword To light the fire The balance to be righted I know the way The path is lighted Self revealed as adversaryContinue reading “Poem: Unbalanced”

I marked you When you were young My servant to become I guided you When you had no faith To the light you yearned for Then came a time When a sword stood in stone Your destiny inert Your choice to make And you swore yourself to me Declared your allegiance to the light IContinue reading “Poem: Chosen”

Listen to me My child, dear You are meant to trod The unbeaten path I intend thee, dear To be forged through rain and fire Though you will suffer much Denied the normal comforts Your life shall serve my purpose Your destiny full of pain Balanced by joy Love of friends and kin Though youContinue reading “Poem: My Purpose”

The darkness seeks My life to take To swallow whole My precious soul To break my will Through constant pain To make me dark Fore’er more I draw the line I stand firm and tall With God’s help To the light I hold dear Though darkness seduces Ne’er to be fully banished I make theContinue reading “Poem: The Darkness”

An old enemy A constant companion A great weakness A greater strength Through it I find meaning Because of it I know myself I need it It is my bane And my humanity It is my teacher And my tormentor It is my secret that I long to share It is my darkness I keepContinue reading “Poem: Pain”