Monastery at night

silence rubs its woolen robes

through darkened halls of carpeted saints

this quiet cloistered night 

 

the stained glass darkened now

to weep in the morning sun

on choir stalls of tear stained oak

 

ego strains at its human leach

while being drowned in conscious

gentle meditations of emptiness 

 

yellow flame in honoured stillness

sanctuaries the tabernacle in

human red to assure the searcher

 

he is not alone





Poetry by josephus The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2022-03-12 at 06:36

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Uncle Meridian The PoetBay support member heart!
Beautiful. And bookmarked. It brought back happy memories of my time among the Trappists at St Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, during Lent of 1992. Wowzers, thirty years ago. I was so young. Bursting at the seams with Merton quotes and youthful untutored enthusiasm.
2022-03-13