Lent is time
Locked out of trouble zone where virus lurks unseen yet shown
What a name- Corona- fit for a queen!
Earlier today, I posted this one on Face Book for my birthday reflection. It is a poem from 1983, about which I wrote “.. a love note to God. It seems soRead More…
This poem September Seventeen was first published in the anthology Hope, then in Volume 13, 1999 of the Caribbean Writer. Every 17th of September is time to gratefully recall a people beingRead More…
Brexit delay extension past MayDay
I have shared my reflections in the wake of last weekend’s mass shootings in the US. Now I’m sharing my reflections after listening to President Donald Trump’s belated, well scripted response. HollowRead More…
12th July 2019. An afflicted part of America weeps after two more mass shootings. The el Paso gunman’s manifesto strongly suggests that Presidential Rhetoric cannot be divorced from the Normalisation of WhiteRead More…
You don’t need to come chez moi
Master can do it from right here.
With God’s power at work in you
victory crowns all that you do.
No hindrance from mountain
or barrier of sea
to Grace from compassion’s
streaming for free
limitless fountain
for servant and captain.
You, Massa Jesus set him free.
My servant needs your sympathy,
stranger leper
paralysed other
woman with fever
from demons to deliver,
oér storm at sea-
You, Lord God
Do set us free.
Zoetermeer, November 20, 2018
Oh foolish me! I’d prayed (I thought) Holy relics reverence for God’s house taught. In horror sight of holy hell As century old steeple fell The helpless cried And Macron tried ToRead More…