Poetry

Original Poetry

(Original poetry by Faitharts Editor Brendan O'Regan)

Read some of the poems of John Paul II here.

Click here for my Blog entries on using poetry in the teaching of Religious Education.

Click here for my article on The Search for Meaning in Senior Cycle Poetry.

New Pilgrim Path – features poem of the week (not necessarily contemporary)
www.newpilgrimpath.ie

Malcolm Guite – modern poet, many sonnets with religious themes
https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/blog/

Gerard Kelly – modern Christian performance poetry. Sample:
http://www.deeper-devotion.net/he-is-risen.html

W.B. Yeats
The Ballad of Father Gilligan
https://www.bartleby.com/250/19.html

Patrick Kavanagh
A Christmas Childhood
https://apoemforireland.rte.ie/shortlist/a-christmas-childhood/

Joseph Mary Plunkett
I See His Blood Upon the Rose
https://dailyscripture.servantsoftheword.org/ireland/plunkt1.htm

Maire Mhac an tSaoi
Oíche Nollag
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oiche-nollag/

Seamus Heaney
St Kevin and the Blackbird
https://youtu.be/wKGmQcSFbMc