The Poet

Patrick is a published poet and has been writing since he was in high school. Some of his poetry can be read in his book, Dancing with The Beloved. His poetry has been called "sensual and deeply passionate", "a study of the struggle of the human soul with itself and its relationship to its God". A collection of many of his published and unpublished poems can found in his latest work, Relationships and Other Crimes of Passion which can be downloaded from the Author page.

A Gethsemane Prayer

I am a requiem for the masses;
a priest in a synagogue,
a rabbi at communion,
an altar boy in the battlefield of desire
who was murdered for the host.

I am a fraction of the
Holy Order
who was numbered by their beast
for the scapegoat crucifixion
that would pacify
their peace.

I am a celibate
in the temple
of your passion;
a monk without a key
in a monastery jungle
of isolated rooms.

And I am an aging fool for love;
a hand voluntarily offered for the nail
clasped in the pleading prayer pose
of a Gethsemane garden long forgotten:

"O my Father, if it be possible,
let this cup
pass from me."

The above is an excerpt from "Relationships and Other Crimes of Passion", a book of poetry by p.donovan © 2005

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