Reflections on the Writing Life: INDEX of Topics

POEMS (listed alphabetically by topic or author)

Acrostic poems
Belshazzar's Wall by Ed Pacht
Hannah's Acrostic by Hannah Mulliken (former student)
How I Love Ice Cream by Hannah Mulliken (former student)
Acrostic for Hannah Mulliken by Ed Pacht
Color Me Thankful by Haley Grace Hall (former student)

Africa
Trying Not to Be Too Sunny by Mary Harwell Sayler
The Africa Chesterton Never Knew by Alice C. Linsley

Alice C. Linsley's poems

Tribute
Athos Tabernacle
Hard to Love
Mystic Exile

Ancient Monuments
Ziggurat (and Helix) by Amy Chai
Two Cities by Peter Mullen

Astronomy
Canis Major by Robert Frost
Reflections of the Chabot Observatory by Edna Linsley Gressitt
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman

Autumn
Autumn Daybreak by Edna St. Vincent Millay
October by William Cullen Bryant
Autumn Pentecost by Cynthia Erlandson

Bananas
Banana Man by Ansil Williams (former student)

Birds
Morning Birdsong by Sam Whitaker (former student)
A Blackbird Singing by R.S. Thomas
May my heart always be open to little birds by E.E. Cummings
Care of Birds For Their Young by James Thomson
Windbound by Lydia Emeric (former student)

Boy Scouts
The Boy Scout's Mother to Her Friends by Edna Linsley Gressitt

Camping
Camping by Ashlynn Watkins

Cats
The Final Redemption of Cats by Dorothy L. Sayers
In Memory of Max, My Kissing Kitty

Cheese
Poems About Cheese

Christ

The Holy Other by Hope Rapson
Christ the Redeemer of All, poem by St. Ambrose of Milan
Surrender by Peter Ould
Jesus and the Concrete Jungle
The Pursuit by John C. Nichols (former student)

Christmas

Christmas by John Betjemen
Did You Know? by Shelby Stuart (former student)
A Song of Gifts to God by G.K. Chesterton
The House of Christmas by G.K. Chesterton
The Three Wisemen by G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton on Premature Celebrations of Christmas
The First Christmas by Chandler Hamby (former student, grade 6)
Christmas Poems by George Herbert
Hypostasis by Hope Ellen Rapson
A Stable Should Suffice

Church
Raymond Foss: New Hampshire Poet

Competing
Trophy by Curtis Surovy (former student)

Daily Routine
Tedium by Ransford Laryea
Tuesday Morning by Matthew Morgan (former student)

Dogs
Poem About Dog Sledding by Curtis Surovy (former student)
My Party by Ed Pacht
Topaz's Misadventure by Miriam Parrish (former student)

Doors
Doors Close by Mason O'Connor (former student)
Houses, Gates and Doors

Ed Pacht's poems
Go Ye Into the City
Pain Like Broken Bones
A Really Big Party
Mass of the Visitation
Lament for the Hills
The Rose
Spoiled Milk
Why Do I Write?
Acrostic for Hannah Mulliken
Leah's Burden
Love-Soaked Road
Ed Pacht Captures Mickey Blue Eyes
Novum Ordo
From Random to Reason
Ed Pacht: New Hampshire Poet
The Precious Wood
A Hard Lent
Rain
Wise Men Follow

Easter
Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen by George Herbert
Easter Monday ("Bright Monday") by Cynthia Erlandson
Genesis 3:15: What Easter is About by Dior Hartje and Courtney Rupp (former students)
Bunny Joy by Piper Todd
A Blessed Easter

Existentialism
The Prayer of the Atheist by Miguel de Unamuno

Fish/Fishing
Trout by Kaleem Omar

Forgiveness/Compassion
My Perfect Neighbor by Alice C. Linsley

Gardens
Digging by Seamus Heaney
Faint Remembrance of Paradise by Hannah Mulliken (former student)

Graves/Graveyards
Robert Frost on a Disused Graveyard

Hiking
The Hike by Mallory Phillips (former student)

Home/Homeless
My Childhood's Home by Abraham Lincoln
Homeless in LA by Matthew Morgan (former student)

Humans/Humanity
On Being Human by C.S. Lewis

Internet
Temptation in the Wired Wilderness by Holly Ordway

Juvenile Literature

Americans Need to Improve Adolescent Literature

Jackie French The Girl From Snowy River

Nick Muzekari A Gift For Matthew

King Arthur/Arthurian Legend
Taliessen (excerpt) by Charles Williams

Lenten Meditations
Stepping Out From the Shadows by Amy Bridges (former student)
Pride Halts Progress by Andrew Calvert (former student)
Beyond One's Self by Zach Esenbock (former student)
Making a Place For Love by Rick Childress (former student)
Looking Past the Haze by Nelson Lane (former student)
A Hard Lent by Ed Pacht

Love
What God's Love Can Do by Hope Ellen Rapson
Lope de Vega on Love

Mountains
The Mountains by Edward Muir
Alone Looking at the Mountain by Li Po
Returning to Songshan Mountain by Wang Wei
Lament for the Hills by Ed Pacht

Mystics
Mystic Exile by Alice C. Linsley
Prophet's Payday by John C. Nichols (former student)

Myths
Anthropologic Study of True Myths by Matushka Elizabeth Perdomo

Odes
Ode to Marian Anderson by Ransford Laryea (former student)

Pain and Suffering
Pain Like Broken Bones by Ed Pacht
Affliction by George Herbert
Canto XII from The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda

Palm Sunday and Holy Week
Jesus Rode on a Donkey
Eternal Love Shines From Calvary

Pantoum
Do I Really Want to Know? by Martiese Morone (former student)
Windbound by Lydia Emeric (former student)

Patriotic
We Who Prayed and Wept by Wendell Berry

Poems and Songs for Memorial Day
Fourth of July poem "Screaming Fire" by Chandler Hamby (former student)

Prayer/Worship
Possible Answers to Prayer by Scott Cairns
Missa Cantata by Evelyn Underhill
Mass on the Feast of Transfiguration by Ed Pacht

Prison
John Bekkos in Jail by Peter Gilbert

Rain
Waiting for the Spring Rain by Ed Pacht

Rain by Hannah O'Malley (former student)

Roses
The Rose by Ed Pacht

Running

The Course by Katherine Neff

Sea
View of the Sea by Justin Clements (former student)
The Farmer and the Sea by Wendell Berry
Funeral by the Sea by Chandler Hamby (former student)
Sailing by Gwyneth Elaine Berry (former student)

Semitic
An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion by Yehuda Amichai

Snow
The Hope of New Snow by Dior Hartje (former student)
Winter's Alliteration by Justin Clements (former student)

Spring
[in Just-] by E.E. Cummings
Unfailing Spring by Savannah Baker, Lydia Emeric, Jordan Romain (former students)
Yearning for Spring After a Hard Winter, a poem by Sue Smith
When Spring Dons Her Flowers
A Cold Spring by Elizabeth Bishop
Hold Fast to Good Things

Summer
August by Lizette Woodworth Reese

Texas
Texas Hill Country by Matushka Elizabeth Perdomo

Thanksgiving
Acrostic to Celebrate Thanksgiving by Haley Grace Hall (former student)

Time
On Time by John Milton
Time by Callula Xu

Trees
The Accomplishments of Trees
Wendell Berry's Farm
Out From the Shadows by Amy Bridges (former student)

Tropical Islands
The Tropics by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Night By the River by Arjane rona Cruz Torres (The Philippines)
Banana Man by Ansil Williams (Trinidad and Tobago)

Women
On Vain and Shallow Women
Cardenal's Prayer for Marlyn Monroe

Winter
Winter's Alliteration by Justin Clements (former student)

READING PREFERENCES
Psychometrics of Mystery Writers

Fiction for the Wealthy White Woke
Why Read Old Books? by Victor Davis Hanson
Favorite Orthodox Reading
Old and Relevant

RELIGIOUS
Meeting the Master on the Road to Emmaus by S. J. Clydeson

St. Cecilia's Song by Ursula Vaughan Williams
Espiritu by Rayanne Sinclair
Ave Maria Gratia Plena by Oscar Wilde
Religious Poetry

SERMONS and SPEECHES

Hearing the Echo by Alice C. Linsley (International Catholic Congress of Anglicans, July 2015)
Zacchaeus and Jesus by Tatiana Kopchuk
Fulfillment of Genesis 3:15 (excerpt) Fr. John Hunwicke’s Christmas homily at St Thomas’ Oxford
Spurgeon's 1885 New Year's Sermon

Peter Marshall on the American Dream
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis

SHORT STORIES
The Flint Knife by Jordan Romain (former student)
Solitary by Alice C. Linsley
The Boy and the Jewel that Made Him King by Hannah Mulliken (former student)
Soft Thorns by Chandler Hamby (former student)
El disastre en el campo por Victoria Bastin (former student)
The Hand of God, Kristy Robinson Horine
A causa de mi papa por Anthony Morello
El payaso y la abeja por Benjamin Guzicki (former student)
Mi tio en un lio por Kelsey Lamb (former student)
La dependiente vigilante por Brittany Cole (former student)
El pescado prevido por Katie Tierney
Un cambio de fortuna por Taylor Goodlett (former student)
Mi perro afortunado por Sheila Holsclaw
El padre equivocado por Suzannne Casey

La obsesión del conductor por Kelsie Doss (former student)
Siempre feli z por Daniel Lyons (former student)

TESTIMONIALS/ MEMORIALS/COMMEMORATIONS

Remembering My Neighbor Esther McGraw