Steven Federle Poems

"We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, no rests in any visible ends. " Thomas Merton

Close the the gun's edge
life is sharply
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Hail Mary
full of grace
you are
filled with grace,
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"Lux in tenebris lucet et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt. (The Light shines in darkness and the darkness has not understood it.) " Thomas Merton

she lies, broken,
by steel needles
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Mountains
surround me.

Black ridges
scrape the sky.
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The moment you died
I felt a breeze rise
tussle of wind
wild in the tumult
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bright day, still birds, black
spots on the blue sky, slightly
sway in trees, and wait
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"In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself.... it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him." Thomas Merton

The proud man
looks into his mirror
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rises the sky
to blue perfection.

New grass waves,
uneven rows
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black
mountains
to sharp ridge
rise, deeply piercing
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devastating velocity,
blood thirsty, fresh death-
dealing NRA
lies fly super-
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