'From the Top' is Timothy Richardson's poetic tribute to the creative process. It captures and enshrines an overwhelming feeling of awe at nature's beauty and uses this universal experience to...

Nowhere Man is the voice of a conscience that cannot reach its conscious mind even as it berates it. Nowhere Man whose title was inspired by the Beatles' character, evades his conscience and is,...

Okay! I feel the pain. So where's the gain? We limp through life. Some keep the march. Some crawl. Avoiding hazards, longing to complain, we scan our scars while hoping death to stall. We...

"We won't get lost." He says and I, "Or sink? Or drown?" I trust him. "Hey, we'll have some fun." ("And how did I get into this?" I think.) Our journey cross the river has begun. ("What...

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Exploring prayer time, a short poem about approaching the Lord... Today I visited Grace Cathedral in San Francisco for Evening Prayer. On Thursdays,...

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Swept Away My call by God led me to become a Benedictine Oblate. It has been 12 years, including postulancy. Sometimes I feel as if I must abandon...

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin.

Religious and spiritual poem by

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. These notes from Peter Menkin blog: This poem was just written, and is the result of my coming towards the end of Rowan William's book,