A poem that speaks of a poetry workshop participants at St. Stephen's Church, Belvedere in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Mostly a statement of the human self in relation to God in Christ.

Many times I've been in our Church Sacristy, where the bread and wine is kept prior to Communion. It is here, in this more "private" space, considered special in ways intimate and important to God, that I've had some quiet minutes alone. Though this is an occasional experience, they are special...

White House Rose Garden
by Peter Menkin

We the people dream
you live sometime in rest
visiting the rose garden
at the White House, Mr. President,

part of a Presidential
spirit that lives with almighty
and ancient strengths...

It was hot today, 100 degrees someone said. That is hard to imagine, but it was so. Sometimes in unusual weather what is created is an unusual day, since the extreme leads to a chance to see something different or in a different way the something that is usual.

This poem about a...

Gratefully Yours, poem by Peter Menkin






Did I not say gratefully yours
in my letter that I said that is a prayer
that I said
when I spoke to you in Church this evening
among my friends, others with whom I'd...

Homily by Peter Menkin with photos by Terry Peck taken in San Francisco. Note the Psalm ends the Homily.

This poem was a zen-like work, if I may be indulged to exagerate.

About the Dance...(2000), Poem by Peter Menkin
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Tonight the ballet, through the storm
And with some delight in the practice
Of movement that belies the interval
Dance, oh, this is a balanced pattern
Of set and...

This poem is an arrow to heaven!


A Grace of God...(revise)
by Peter Menkin
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Inner life
aware of soothing Spirit.
Waiting.
Grace that underlines
living.
Ask for waters
...

In Thunder and stone, The Commandment came...
poem by Peter Menkin
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To be set free
by stones:
First Commandment:
Have no other Gods
but me.

Could the thunder
on Mount Sinai have
...