Magda is a recent graduate from Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, where she earned a Bachelors in Catholic Studies with concentrations in Philosophy and Literature. She is currently working towards graduate studies in Literature.
(On this birthday of Scotland's national poet, 'tis fitting that we received this submission from Magda Vanderburg, including a brief analysis of Rabbie Burns' poem, 'A Man's a Man'. We begin with a recorded...
"Philomela"
A lark sings through the hellish gloom;
Calls out to her Author.
Praising, loving, she cries her tune,
Piercing my ears to bother.
A lonely cry, muffled and sweet,
Echoes through dark and rain,
Rises to join the thronging fleet
Of...
The Grave Visitor
One pair of prints always walk in
They find their normal stone
They halt by grave of nearest kin
Then exit all alone
The snow blows down these winter days
Those prints always return
None else come to...
Tarantella by Hilaire Belloc
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding and the spreading
Of the straw for a bedding,
And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,
And the wine that tasted...