Religious Poem

The Hour

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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

This Lent

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Shimbo Pastory This poem was published in the Writers Space Africa (WSA) Monthly Literary Magazine, March 2018 Where love is wantingThere my heart is waitingWhere food is lackingThere I bed my fastingPoor, sick, sad, defeated manHungry souls eaten by the sunShall find strength when I’m doneThus I live my LentWhether little or muchIt matters not … Read more