Psalms of our days

43 poems

Texts not severed from prayer. Verse born in the silence.

I am the light that hovers in the hush, the one no eye has ever caught. It always was, it does not burn, yet wordlessly it lights the world.

I Am the Light That Hovers in the Silence...

Apr 2026
  1. I Am the Light That Hovers in the Silence... I am the light that hovers in the hush…
  2. Christ Lived in Me Unseen Christ lived in me unseen through all these years…
Mar 2026
  1. I Am That Which I Am Life does not move apart from the one…
  2. In Answer to Robert Frost's “The Road Not Taken” Not two paths in the damp depths of a wood…
  3. I Once Fed Not Myself, but God Not in a church — just on a quiet day…
  4. A Poet I Am... A poet I am... gathering meanings into puzzles…
  5. The Sunset's Flares Have Streaked the Sky The sunset's flares have streaked across the sky…
Feb 2026
  1. Poem of the Thirsting Heart O Holy Spirit, breath of Life…
  2. We Lost Ourselves in This World like shadows in the dusk of time…
  3. You Will Not Come You will not come. I waited, all in vain…
Oct 2025
  1. I Love You, Peter's Creation where the bright Neva's waters flow…
  2. Moscow! How Much Is in That Sound of light kept treasured for the soul…
  3. I Remember a Wondrous Moment I remember a wondrous moment…
  4. With Quiet Tread the Dawn Comes In I had believed You were not near…
Sep 2025
  1. I Am the Christ I am the Christ, and God within me lives…
May 2025
  1. Poem of Being-and-I You long to vanish, to go down into the deep…
Mar 2025
  1. The First Rain The springtime rain in clamorous streams…
  2. God Dreams a Dream God dreams a dream straight through this world…
  3. Spring Through the sleep of the birch-lined lanes…
  4. Eternity The starlight does not dim or die…
  5. The Rooks Have Come The rooks have come, they settle in the fields…
  6. The Breath of the Universe The Universe breathes — gently, at ease…
  7. The Star Within Within me burns a star alight…
  8. Love Love is like light among the shadows…
  9. Flame in the Heart The fire within me will not falter…
  10. The Path with No Path I am walking, yet there is no road…
  11. Holy Rus Holy Rus, you boundless country…
  12. I Am the Light of the Creator I am the light that silence bore…
Feb 2025
  1. O God, Dear God... O God, dear God, lay open wide my heart…
Dec 2024
  1. My Child, What For... My child, why does the world set stars ablaze?…
  2. To Maria Savateeva — O God, tell me, what is the name "Maria" to You?…
Nov 2024
  1. Psalm 90 The Lord — my shield, my refuge, and my peace…
  2. Violet Powder Behind the lining of all things, my violet home…
  3. Transmission Within the words, a hidden net…
Oct 2024
  1. who am I? why, it is You In the beginning is the One Absolute…
  2. At the Depths of Sacred Silence an essence hid itself — "I and you."…
  3. Solitude in the Labyrinth of Illusions We swear vows to each other — but the air is empty and hollow…
  4. You Are My Maker, and I Am Warmed by You I seek you down the winding paths of being…
  5. Doubt Is Gone; I Boldly Recognize You in Everything in the first light of dawn, in grass the wind keeps stirring…
  6. I Dream a Dream I dream a dream: Sergei walks through the world…
  7. The Meaning of Life Why did I come into this vast, wide world?…
  8. And What If I Am Wrong What word of judgment will my brother say?…
Sep 2024
  1. It Is Time It is time… it is time… yes, you are all still here…