The Hour

Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in The Catholic Post newspaper, London May 2022 Edition This is the hour,Man’s animosity at its peakIs cast on him who loved him mostEvil it’s will sturdy, blind, highDarkness savoured for lightDeath haggled for lifeA hate in turn for loveThat we be saved from same. For a token the … Read more

Wholeness

Shimbo Pastory This poem was published by Kalahari Review on 24th August, 2021 Mh! The irony of joysHorse riders rest on their hoppingIn sunny days and cloudy nights.Resting is the man within,Heedless the tumults,The irony of joys. Oh! The irony of joysTo lowly menVeils of light wake and die in their sleepBut wealthy workmen,Float amidst … Read more

The Vengeance of Time

Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the U-Rights Magazine, Issue 2, April 2020 We travel far in the spaces and we return to timeWe read the infinite skies and draw maps over roadsWe may touch hearts, or hit, or hurt, or runEyes peek atop the left wrist in recurrent bewildermentThe haste is pressing, to … Read more

Speechless

Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the U-Rights Magazine, Issue 1, November 2019 When life was goodAll could not wait, but tided in wordsSimple, pleasant, living, colourful.But time now tells, that candles light and die,Until Good Will brings graces of light again.Now that the climb gets steeper,I’m speechless, her toil’s bitter,Each dawn I rise … Read more