Monk by the Sea

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Where can a monk go when he is only a monk?

I came to the Holy Mountain sixty years ago
I clung on the steep rocks of the desert
the sacred books of the Fathers
the Faith

a thousand years

now come the Americans and the Jews
schismatic! they said
squatter!
split!

Where can a monk go when he is only a monk?

copyright 2024 by Michael Nikoletseas

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image Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea