Best Jesuit Poems

"Exegesis"



At 7 he was 
thrown to the wolves

Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets 
kept in the abbey

he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod

First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with...

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Philippines, my country of birth,
one of the countries in Southeast Asia.
It is an archipelago or group of islands,
with more than seven thousand islands.

Luzon, the largest...

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
              ...

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The sweet sweat chorus of forgotten voices
Bared and marred by torrents of ugly vices
The agonies of today seemed to know an alien song
Memories of yesterday...

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Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. 

"I'm...

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>>1111>>WHAT IS THIS THING WE ARE LIVING IN?<<1111<<

Surrounded by beauty away from cities criticism,
Sitting in awe, But questioning being a law abiding citizen,
What is this...

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Just suppose – a hierarchy rules this shadowland
Pulls the strings of governments, not walking hand in hand
Amend our constitutions, to suit their future plans
Throw Christians...

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ANIMOSITY VESSEL :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely...

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In his youth he became an Anglican deacon,
but the doubts about Protestantism beset him
and after further study,
he returned to Catholicism.

Young Jesuit priest,
arrested by priest hunters
in...

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Pray for Margaret you Jesuit priest, 
   who wept for falling leaves but cast no blame.
   Her soul, as leaf-meal lies,...

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They think that, when you hear the gospel, you start working, creating by your own strength a thankful heart which says, ''I believe.'' That is...

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He was born to Protestant parents
and became master of a grammar school.
In London, he was converted 
to the faith of original Church.

In Rome, he became...

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Barely weeks of seven of the orgy
Space crash of 117 people in a Bellview
Tragedy came knocking
This time harder with anger to
Ginger blood off its hunger

Unto...

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This Easter we honor God’s Holy Son,
Who willingly,gave up His very life!
So that human beings could live an
eternal one.

Christ had his Calvary, and each of...

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Angelus Silesius Translations

The rose merely blossoms
and never asks why:
heedless of her beauty,
careless of every eye.
?Angelus Silesius, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

The rose lack reasons
and...

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