More than 350 Catholic poems with a new poem published each Wednesday.
Bells still ring.
You can hear them across the capital
For funerals, on holy days, or for Sunday Mass.
Few listen, except the old, the lonely,
The hard-bitten, and a handful of more pertinacious
New arrivals, who bear their faith
With a joy that startles like
The flash of sun on a fender or neglected chariots
Carrying a king.
William Prendiville is the author of the novel Atlantic Winds and the memoir Love Is Nothing but the Fruit of a Long Moment. Other poems include Five Shakespeares.
Since 2019, the Catholic Poetry Room (www.CatholicPoetry.org) has shared a new poem with readers each week. Poems range in style from formal to free verse to ekphrastics, with an honest expression of each author’s spiritual journey. Many Catholic Poetry Room adult readers are new to poetry and find the poems both accessible and enjoyable. The Catholic Poetry Room is also used by Catholic School teachers, who find the poems an excellent way to begin the day with their students, to pray, or use Catholic Poetry Room verse in their academic classes.