PinnedBrendan MichaelCreatingI’m haunted by a secret: That in Creating, I am also Loving; Willing from the shadow Of my thought a new life, Birthing cosmos from chaos…Jul 31, 2017Jul 31, 2017
Brendan MichaelGraceBirdsong On a battlefield Rain that falls Unseen by eye To trickle In an arid place And dampen What was parchedAug 14, 2018Aug 14, 2018
Brendan MichaelOld Men Ought to be ExplorersHome is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the…Jul 31, 2018Jul 31, 2018
Brendan MichaelStory IdeasI hear them treading softly on That snowy stretch of mind-field, The far but fair reaches of My strangely endless inner-kingdom - A space…Jul 27, 2018Jul 27, 2018
Brendan MichaelThe Long EnchantmentAnd so it was, that the war was won and the gallant young Prince returned to his kingdom. But he did not return at the head of a grand and…Jul 3, 2018Jul 3, 2018
Brendan MichaelA Bare and Beautiful Place“out of what little earth and duration, out of what immense good-bye, each must make a safe place of his heart, before so strange and…Apr 3, 2018Apr 3, 2018
Brendan MichaelinProv WritersTo Know the KingdomTo know the Kingdom is to know the World As a child knows – A place to be seen as framed by fingers, Surpassing Beauty glimpsed Through…Nov 2, 2017Nov 2, 2017
Brendan MichaelWhen All the Songs Have CeasedWhen all the songs have ceased And feasting saints are gathered To share in glory and in gladness, They sit at rest, enamored When the…Sep 1, 20171Sep 1, 20171
