by John Power | Feb 16, 2026 | Poems
After the Mountain — John Speaks We thought we were climbing for air, for distance, for quiet. Just rock and dust underfoot, the ordinary weight of afternoon. He walked ahead of us as always — teacher, friend, the one whose laughter we knew by heart. Nothing in His...
by John Power | Dec 14, 2025 | Poems
I’ve stood watch for many a long night. Counted the wandering sheep, every one, my ears pricked sharp for the ghost-hush of wolves. Seen the black storms tumble down the hills, and me there, braced against the wind, keeping the small, the fragile, alive. That was my...
by John Power | Nov 10, 2025 | Poems
I did not know what moved within me then— a wind, a light, a trembling in the soul— when I looked on your face and saw more than a man, and words not my own rose like fire: “You are the Christ.” Not title, not triumph, not crown— but something vast, ancient, tender—...
by John Power | Oct 2, 2025 | Poems
God is at the loom, unseen, weaving threads of quiet spirit through bone and breath, through sorrow and song, through the aching of flesh and the hidden trembling of the mind. A cut closes without our asking, scar tissue sealing the wound as though heaven had leaned...
by John Power | Sep 7, 2025 | Poems
The bread will be broken, and in its breaking the whole of nature speaks— wheat from the field, sunlight stored in grain, rainfall, soil, and farmer’s hands, all threads in God’s great tapestry. The cup will be lifted, and in its crimson depth we taste the vine’s long...
