Poetry!

[Polymath]

Does anyone else here write poetry?  I'd love to see poetry from other Church-believing Catholics!

I'm published at the Society of Classical Poets under the pen name Joshua C. Frank:

https://classicalpoets.org/2022/07/26/elegy-for-the-child-never-conceived-by-joshua-c-frank/

https://classicalpoets.org/2022/06/17/a-modernization-of-to-his-coy-mistress-by-joshua-c-frank/

https://classicalpoets.org/2022/06/13/what-is-pro-choice-and-other-poetry-by-joshua-c-frank/

To give a sample, here's my most popular poem:

Elegy For The Child Never Conceived
(First published at the Society of Classical Poets, July 26, 2022)

His would-be parents had but days;
The procreative ship sat docked,
And with the passengers' delays,
That ship is gone, forever locked,
But if, instead, he'd been conceived
And been allowed to live and die,
His soul could one day be received
In the embrace of God Most High.

And hence it grieves my heart to see
A child-shaped space unoccupied,
Not running in the grass with glee,
Nor leaning on his mother's side,
And no one in his space in bed
To kiss goodnight while tucking in;
No smiling face, no heart well-fed,
No warm caress from hands to skin.

When weighed against one human soul,
No sacrifice too great to give
Could ever be for such a goal
That one's own child may simply live.

[The Curt Jester]

I've written a couple pieces, though I'm not really into writing poetry.  The only one I seriously tried at is a long one, but still a bit rough since I never went back over it to fix some meter problems and a few quirky rhymes.  I'll have to search it out and post it for your critique.

[queen.saints]

When weighed against one human soul,
No sacrifice too great to give
Could ever be for such a goal
That one's own child may simply live.

Well, that made me cry.

[Polymath]

When weighed against one human soul,
No sacrifice too great to give
Could ever be for such a goal
That one's own child may simply live.

Well, that made me cry.

Wow... surprising that I can write something that has that effect on people...

[Polymath]

If you like these, I've got my own page at that same online magazine:

https://classicalpoets.org/?s=Joshua+C.+Frank