Saturday, 16 January 2010

Cloister confines

It’s here I type and think

and mark; collect ideas to link

with some coherent thread of sense.

All in third person, present tense.


Vocation this can hardly be,

for undiscipled I can’t see

the use of all my sweat and toil,

without a stake and fecund soil.


I’ve tried to pacify this truth

as revealed in frugal youth.

To think of what I really could

faithfully inaugurate, I should


turn towards the sacred unknown,

not falter, then perennially postpone.

Recalcitrant, I sit and work and moan,

deskbound in my claustral home.

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