DAILY PHOTO: Flowers w/ Church, Budapest [Felsővízivárosi Szent Anna templom]

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Gothic [Free Verse]

The gothic cathedral is dark --

unilluminated, but for the
flickering orange flames
of votive candles,

and the weak winter light
of a gloomy December day
that warms the panels
of stained glass.

A pew creaks. 
A tiny movement makes 
a giant sound, owing to 
the stony acoustics.

The pew is creaking from the  
restless fidgeting of the 
church's sole occupant.

DAILY PHOTO: Red Church Side Entrance

Church of the Assumption; Szentendre, Hungary; Taken in October of 2022

DAILY PHOTO: Farská Street, Bratislava

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DAILY PHOTO: Sculpture and Façade of Blumentál Church, Bratislava

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DAILY PHOTO: Around the Church of the Holy Ghost, Tallinn

Taken in the summer of 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia

A Sign from Above [Limerick]

There was a resplendent Portuguese church
with plenty of places for pigeons to perch,
Parishioners went to mass,
moving quite fast,
to keep clothes -- not repute -- un-besmirched.

DAILY PHOTO: A Church in Bidar

Taken in Bidar in August of 2022

DAILY PHOTO: Saint Stephen’s Basilica Under Blue Skies

Taken in the Summer of 2011 in Budapest

DAILY PHOTO: Church & Terraces, Tamil Nadu

Taken in November of 2018 near Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu