Showing posts with label Benedictine order. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benedictine order. Show all posts

Friday, 25 February 2022

monks walk

 
  


monks walk
past 
this house
in silence
 
from the churchyard
grave boned
across the muddy field
cowled
in single file
 
monks walk past this house
a millennium  march
save no-one but me sees them
processing hooded
 
monks walk past this house
and I follow
in their wake
step by step
in time
 
 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

the hanging trees



the hanging trees
gather|
to greet the mourning sun

shrouded in mist
they rear up from the gloom

blackened and ancient
they await the return
of the black-cowled monks