Room for reflection

A place for me to share general musings and reflections on Christian themes. On the top right you can access the blog page and about page for further info.

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  • The Flower: A Poem

    The Flower She unfolded her petals to the kind sun and gave her colours to the caressing light; and though she was the blessing of the field, with the expenditure of summer her only fortune was to bend down, stripped of livery, to the base dirt. Read more

  • The Forest Nun: A Poem

    The Forest Nun The hideaway of trees is ample for the one who wishes to sample spiritual nourishment of God. She cares not her wild life is odd to those who pursue city pleasure, and do not make still prayer their leisure; instead she puts knees to the dirt, decided her heart to convert to Read more

  • A Poem (the love of God)

    O fierce and captivating love of God, drive the wind like hope leaping through the riot of the temporal realms of mortal blood, go crash the oceans with strong bounding waves and energise where the waters are quiet; dance on grassy hills and sing in the caves, lend solid rock to the old crumbling mountains, Read more

  • The Rose: A poem

    The rose I saw you boasting bright red and wished to pluck you from your bed so boldly reached for you; instead of picking you up I fled, for my finger on your thorn bled, ‘the rose is no sweet flower,’ I said. Read more

  • My new author website

    Just a quick post to say, you can check out my new author website at: http://www.johnsawatts.com And if you sign up to my news letter you’ll receive a free satirical narrative poem (Inscitia), about an inept university student sold into the dubious philosophy of, ‘you have your own truth,’ it’s a decent length poem 40 Read more

  • Book review (Fable for the End of the World)

    I’ll preface this review by saying I am not into sapphic romances; but if you like stories about lesbian encounters during assassination games then we might have just the book for you! The author (Ava Reid) does a pretty good job of making you want to root for the protagonist(s), given how natural it is Read more