Poems

This collection of devotional poems, composed during illness and near blindness, offers personal retrospection on suffering, faith, and maternal love. Short lyric pieces range from penitential meditations and images of a pearl-studded cross to laments of solitude, hospital gratitude, and the daily waiting of a wounded spirit. Recurring themes include trust in divine providence, longing for reunion and heaven, the discipline of trials, and small domestic memories transformed by loss. Celestial and nature imagery provides consolation while several poems address children and caregivers with tender, hopeful tones.