This month’s poem ‘Pater Nosterer and Pilgrim’ is available to read by going to the online magazine at cirenscene.com and using the search tab to go to Somewhere Else Writers, where you can also browse previous months’ writing from other members.
Tina travels farther than all our other members to attend our weekly meetings, and hopefully her journey will be more pleasant now summer is approaching, and the evenings are getting lighter. Her poem takes readers to an unspecified time in the past and provides some food for contemplative thought.
As well as writing poetry, Tina is working on a novel she describes as a Tudor murder mystery, which promises to offer readers a diverting story in the future.
You can read Tina’s poem at Cirenscene.com. There is much more too about the group at somewhere-else-writers.org
Pater Nosterer and Pilgrim
You strung my faith on a strip of linen
whose ends would one day fray.
Who knew the beads would be lost
and if they would ever be found?
You worked beside the abbey,
on a sea of parings, boxwood and yew,
your bow lathe sawing, crafting beads;
I still see your hands working.
You passed me the rosary for my journey,
the best I could afford,
smiled when I told you what comfort it held.
You’ll not get such warmth from jet or gold.
I did not know the beads would be lost.
Did you?
Who knew faith could be dissolved
along with hope and charity?
Who would have guessed
just how quickly all went against?
I thought of you in those bruised seasons
of destruction and suppression,
the division and the persecutions,
the forbidding of your humble trade.
Did roses rot in abbey gardens
as hungry rats watched from nearby glades?
Did you drag your missing mind
along a wasted aisle
and feel its crouching absence
in that ravaged hallowed ground?
They say you searched for what little was left
within the mulch of violence,
they say you spent your last days alone
weeping in the ruins.
I wish I could have told you
hold on to your faith.
The made can not be unmade,
the past can never leave.
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