New Year Haiku

A fresh day But winter remains Still I mourn

Myrrh

Lay me down

Wrap me tightly and constrict my movement. Not so much that I cannot breath but as close as possible to that point of no return that at times it seems there is little difference.

Is this comfort?

Present me with Gold that I have no hands free to spend or Frankincense . . . → Read More: Myrrh

Domestic Singularity – A Love Poem

For Gayle and Reuben

Wife and son are away for the day And I am left alone to play. “Alone to play,” I hear you cry! “Alone to play,” you hear me sigh.

Peter Ould 14th November 2009

. . . → Read More: Domestic Singularity – A Love Poem

Possible Answers to Prayer

By Scott Cairns

Your petitions—though they continue to bear just the one signature—have been duly recorded. Your anxieties—despite their constant,

relatively narrow scope and inadvertent entertainment value—nonetheless serve to bring your person vividly to mind.

Your repentance—all but obscured beneath a burgeoning, yellow fog of frankly more conspicuous resentment—is sufficient.

Your intermittent concern for the . . . → Read More: Possible Answers to Prayer

Touch

Even though we sit slightly a Part of us Is connected

Despite the closeness Exceptions can be made Releasing us from the need (Must?); The honour we show in being Inactive till our skin we choose to Share

Peter Ould 25th August 2004

. . . → Read More: Touch

Preaching at a House Party

Rediscovered this poem of three years ago

You asked a statement I replied a difference and so you wonder what my problem is;

now you just glare into the mirror that you can’t bare to see

Peter Ould 20th January 2005

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Two Final Things

Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke

No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy