A Modest Molehill of Four Poems

Source: Larry Cuban
Poison

mediocrity
like perfectly straight lines
does not exist in Nature
it’s manmade
and as with all the rest of our artifice
any slight excess here
ends up poisonously anti-human.

Lost

we all heard them say:
he couldn’t find his way
out of a wet paper bag
even his own life to save!
Ha!Ha!Ha! we all laughed
but who of us had 
love enough to ask
what poor old what’s-his-face
was doing there in the first place?

Rebuild

“Frank, rebuild my Church!”
“Say what?”
“You heard me.”
“But all I have is this little book
of origami paper.”
“That will do.”
“But it will hardly last.”
“Take a good look at history, Frank,
and tell me what of beauty
ever really does?”

Blessing for the Road

May every inch under foot
or under wheel;
may every stone kicked
by anger or by accident;
may every field passed
by speedily or somnolently;
may every whole and part
of your road be blessed:
the signs, the lines, the end, the start
and all the paved or dirty rest.

Greg Kennedy, SJ works as a spiritual director at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario. He is author of Reupholstered Psalms volumes I, II, and III; and Amazing Friendships between Animals and Saints (Novalis Press).

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3 Comments
  • Eric Jensen
    Posted at 14:39h, 08 March Reply

    A post-birthday comment for the poet: keep on truckin’ man!

  • Peter Bisson
    Posted at 14:44h, 08 March Reply

    Thank you so much Greg!

  • Barbara French
    Posted at 20:54h, 18 March Reply

    Brilliant…thought provoking…worth way more then one read…thank you!
    (Barbara Bishop, in another life)

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