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Traveling Light
30 short poems

Privately published by the Basilian Press – 2008
In 1963, at the age of 33, Father Lee was awarded a Canada Council grant to study at the American School of Classical Studies in ATHENS, Greece. He used the opportunity to “travel light” across Europe. With no camera, he wrote 30 small poems about what he saw. Some of the poems are about places, but most of the poems are about art works which made an indelible impression on him.
AFTER THE FALL – a watercolour by William Blake (1803)
The Angel of Divine Presence clothing Adam and Eve with skins
in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
ON THE ROCKS – first impressions of Edinburgh
TWO GIRLS AT THE PIANO – a painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir (1892) in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
OLYMPIA – a painting by Édouard Manet (1863)
in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
THE ARCHANGEL LOVED HEIGHTS – impressions of Mont Saint-Michel
ALTARPIECE – The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb – by Hubert and Jan van Eyck (1430)
in St Bravo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
LANDSCAPE – the Netherlands
CONVERSION – at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
ROLE MODELS – Lisbon
SEVEN CITIES IN SPAIN – España
the COTE D’AZUR – the Mediterranean
LORD MATTERHORN – Gornergrat, Zermatt, Switzerland
CHILLON – the Château at the east end of Lake Geneva, Switzerland
SANTA MARIA NOVELLA
The Ognissanti Crucifix by Giotto di Bondone, Florence, Italy (1288)
STAIRCASE at the CONVENTO di SAN MARCO – The Annunciation (1440)
fresco by Fra Angelico, Florence, Italy
THE CHILDREN – Naples, Italy
DOODLING WITH METERS at the AMERICAN SCHOOL of CLASSICAL STUDIES – Athens, Greece
STELE – Athens, Greece
APOLLO – Athens, Greece
ORACLES – Delphi, Greece
FRAGMENTS FROM THE GREEK ISLANDS – the Aegean
RAILING TO BYZANTIUM – Turkey
AFTER BYZANTIUM – the Balkans
NEAR THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS – Venice, Italy
EASTER VIGIL at the STEPHANSDOM – Vienna, Austria
ON THE TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS – Ravenna, Italy
AT THE SHRINE – Bayreuth
ELEGIAC COUPLETS – London, England
JOURNEY’s END – Killarney, Ireland