Each phrase a gift,

mine to unwrap

 

The Muse bequeaths,

when spirit lacks

 

Each word a jewel,

to cut and shine

 

Together placed

—and shout divine

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

Space in meters,

words in rhyme

 

Life in color

—truth sublime

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

The future blocked,

by words unsaid

 

The pasture torn,

its furrows bled

 

The future blocked,

by words unsaid

 

The present cries

—its orphans dead

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

Charging into the waves,

the wind at my back

 

The horizon clear

—its truth left unsaid

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

May your reasons bejewel in truth

—the diamond of the soul

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

Can you understand

without thinking

 

Can you know more than

your mind can learn

 

Can you overflow

without leaking

 

Can you see

—beyond the fire’s burn

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

Beyond all critical thinking,

above what’s right or wrong

 

There’s a different understanding,

where words turn into song

 

With a deeper sense of freedom,

light shines upon itself

 

All reasoned dialectic,

left abandoned, lost—unfelt

 

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

God does not exist…

existence a material term

 

Transcending all dimension,

His presence wholly burns

 

Not temporal or timeless,

His light as knowledge gives

 

Not forgiving or forsaking

—the truth in God just is

 

(St. Davids Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

Can you ever prove a negative,

  have you ever really tried

 

To show that God does not exist,

or love not verified

 

‘To Be Or Not To Be’

is then a half-truth at the best

 

Belief a claim you can’t defame

  —with logic its unrest

 

(St Davids Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

 

“We live between

the beasts and the Angels”

 

 On this topic

Augustine was right

 

Our intellects bear

what our impulses share

 

Separating the wrong

from the right

 

We live between

the Lord and the devil

 

Each claiming a stake

in our souls

 

As primates absolved

into humans evolved

 

Two halves

—of a now different whole

 

(St Davids Pennsylvania: June, 2019)