Bøger af Noel Jeffs (Ssf)

A friend said writing poetry is part of your healing. My stay in hospital was a long period of isolation and solitude and every day I got up to write with the vista of the city before me, I was engaging with healing of body and mind and as a period this offered me significant reflection and redeemed my style of writing with reflections on nature. So many of the poems were a response to kindness and care of those around me.

As a young Friar I was fortunate to spend some time on my own in reflection and meditation, as I wandered in the Holy Land, including Jerusalem and elsewhere, Dorset in the United Kingdom, and Assisi in Italy. I see this an important moment of pilgrimage in my life. This volume was crafted at that time. Moments of beauty, lucidity and exploration are reproduced for you here, in the hope that you might also make some sense of what can only ever be, your own deeply personal journeys.