**This is a crown of sonnets, which I composed as a final project for a Medieval Church history class. It is a meditation on mercy as the early church understood it and an invitation for today's church to enter into the practice of mercy. Because the piece was originally an academic project, there are many … Continue reading A Wreath of Mercy
More Poetry
Let her blossom
A sweet-smelling flowerThat blooms in secretRoots her power in potentialHer fragrance precious in obscurityUnadmired beauty, her unchallenged glory
Skeptical Communion
Concealing the confidentialSealing the separationConsequences of congenitalStrength. Candid to the coreAnd comely by consecrationCommonly confused solicitationFor camaraderie and kinCraving closeness, still I'm soullessCurrently can't comeInto companionship. So now,Such simple somethings such asKindnessSeem a soft caress or a slithering snakeAnd I can't keep it from slippingTo somewhere I cannot contain it. I can't keep it from … Continue reading Skeptical Communion
The Plants That We Let Grow
All good things must come to an endAnd of some we'll never speak"This too shall pass"And what we sow, we shall reap. Too soon, perhaps, for honestyI'm wordless if I must contain itTime has made me feralWe're at an impasse if I can't explain it A quarrel's abrupt resolution,My opposition now before the ThroneWe may … Continue reading The Plants That We Let Grow
A Sonnet of the Eternal Spring #1
Buds in Fall contain a happy secretThey stem from supernatural consummationOf long-forgotten love, hope requickenedUnnatural or confused, disastrousYet altogether right and wonderfulThe miracle of two become one explodes into lifeTo which all living, dead, and dormant do respondThough leaves succumb to gravity’s callsAnd darkness often and more quickly fallsOur love waits, safely nestled in the … Continue reading A Sonnet of the Eternal Spring #1
Naomi M. Wong 