3 poems by Robert P. Craig, Ph.D.

Robert P. Craig has earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Wayne State University. He has taught philosophy at the University of Houston, and also in Malaysia, Indonesia, Beijing, and Saigon.  He has published 6 books of poetry with numerous other poems in print and online journals. He has also published 7 books in philosophy and has given around 230 professional papers in philosophy in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and China.

The Time Came 

1. 

The lowest note

of the organ

at Mass hearing

wonderous melodious

hymns is what I

touch all day. 

2. 

Spring moon

we embrace

as if I were a

shadow on the

Shadow Screen. 

3. 

Now it is night she

stares into a face

of parchment, dances

with words, praying

nearest the dawn: the

Chapel door is always open. 

4.

A new dimension

manifests with the

wind on my face

and children on the

lawn, all this against

a motionless sky. 

5. 

I am time: settle in

with me: we can see peace

and make love together.

  

Present

The moon

hung sharper 

harder framed

in clouds 

darker against

lights brighter: 

because last

night I 

dreamed of

you: and 

because I

dreamed the 

day was

complete total 

whole, splashed

around again 

and again

and festive: 

tonight we

may be 

electrified with

a pin 

of light

grasping gapping 

its way

back on 

a flat

black sea, 

Later That Afternoon

You are a river

that flows banking

over.  Despite all

adversities you must

stream scream like

Galveston Island.

You are like an

untwisted paperback

novel with empty

sheets of paper,

unnumbered: you fill

fuel it.  I hope I

can catch up. 

Poems by Robert P. Craig