Tag: catholic background

I am not a secular poet, have never been a secular poet, and my work is a journey through both the imagery of my working class Irish Catholic background and my sense of the the incarnate word as Shema Mitzvah–the oneness of God within the act of love toward neighbor. First Shema: Hear O Israel, the lord, the lord is one. And you shall love the lord with all your mind and with all your heart and with all your strength and the Mitzvah is And the second commandment is like unto it: love your neighbor as yourself. All other commandments are contained within these two, the whole of the law, the spirit of the law. They are the ontology of my poems, and to truly enter my work, you must understand it in the context of Shema Mitzvah. I do not believe in the separation of faith and works, [...]