Category: Marian Poetry

Those evil spirits of that fallen one
Exiled to earth, our human sphere, now seek
To human hearts inhabit that are weak
And seek to stand apart from God, alone.
For human strength is found upon those knees
That bow before the One who said, “Don’t eat;
You learn the truth while sitting at my feet,
For good and evil are my choice you see.”
But we, like Eve, here bow instead to hear
The one incarnate in that serpent’s life,
Who seeks to enter us with Devil’s strife
And rob us of our own good human cheer.
O Jesus, us incarnate and awake
Our conscience in us, Mary’s choice to make. 

O Mary, Image beautiful, complete
Of Trinity in heaven whose clear light
Reflects in you, who Holy Spirit greet,
Consent to bear God’s Son in earth’s dark night.
A perfect human self put back at last
In Naz’reth’s Garden through Gethsemane
By Son who took from you what He had cast
From future, to replace that Past Lost Tree.
Eternity’s New Tree grew once in time
In Galilee and bore its perfect fruit
In Bethlehem, beginning heaven’s rhyme
Of Jesse’s Son sprung from New Eden’s Root. 
O Mother Mary, Trinity’s clear light
Reflects in you to shine in earth’s dark night.