This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jeffrey Essmann.
Monastery Birds
By morning robins, wrens and crows
swim through the sunlight’s goldy rose
and bluejays screech on tippy-toes
on birchy branches.
The mourning doves do mourn no more;
the sparrows cease their wormy wars.
How giddy God does lightly soar,
O how He dances!
Jeffrey Essmann is an essayist and poet living in New York. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, among them Dappled Things, the St. Austin Review, Ekstasis Magazine, Amethyst Review, The Society of Classical Poets, and various venues of the Benedictine monastery with which he is an oblate. He was the 2nd Place winner in the Catholic Literary Arts 2022 Assumption of Mary poetry contest and 1st Place winner in its Advent: Mary Mother of Hope contest later that year. He is editor of the Catholic Poetry Room.
