Poetry

In this prose poem, Shoshana D. Kerewsky reminds us that a pilgrim is grateful even when they don’t feel like being so, and that gratitude is a practice.

In this poem song, Tom Friesen describes that particular feeling that is the Camino’s call.

In this poem, Cathy Hollister reflects on what each day on the Camino holds for a pilgrim, to begin anew with anticipation for the joys and challenges on the long road ahead.

In this poem, Luci Kegley considers the alternate ways we measure time on the Camino.

In this poem, Taryn Deckard captures a slice of the pilgrim experience through what she observes and feels on one specific day on the Camino.

In this poem, Jen Manglos captures a fleeting moment on Cape Finisterre as the sun slips beyond the horizon, marking the end of one journey and the beginning of another.

In this poem, Suzanne Doerge finds, thanks to the pilgrim lessons we hold on to, that even in returning to the busy highway we left behind, we can continue to stroll with all the souls of the Camino to the ends of the Earth.

In this poem, Rebecca Conrow-Bayles recognizes that in bidding farewell so soon after arriving in the city long-sought by pilgrims, that her Camino continues for as long as the journey takes.

In these song lyrics set to the tune of Glen Campbell’s “Gentle on My Mind,” Robert Bain writes of the pilgrim’s journey after spiraling inward toward a destination, back outward on a return journey home as we unwind from Camino time.

In this poem, Lawrence Jones reflects on the moment in which he placed two rounded stones at Cruz de Ferro in honor of the staff, volunteers, board, and patients of the Open Door Clinic, for which he walked the Camino.