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Poet Craig A Roberts, Scriptorium Aotearoa

Poet Craig A Roberts, Scriptorium Aotearoa

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Mediations and prayers for the Celtic pilgrim voyage by Poet Craig A. Roberts from Scriptorium Aotearoa. Take a moment, come enter into a deeper spirituality in the peace, joy and wisdom of Solas Chrìost.


Poet Craig A. Roberts writes and speaks through a Celtic Christian lens on life's voyage through the straits between inner and outer worlds. He is a member of the international Community of Aidan and Hilda and writes from Scriptorium Aotearoa. His books have been published in New York, Dublin and New Zealand and made their way to be heard in quiet spaces around the globe. His writing points readers into a deeper spirituality that has to be experienced by the heart and body. When the heart and soul knows something, then what becomes lodged in the mind is perhaps authentic.


Craig is tāngata-tiriti in Aotearoa New Zealand, the emergent island highlands of a vast drowned continent Te Riu-a-Māui (Zealandia). He lives above the deep realm of oceans on e Ika-a-Māui (North Island), one of over 700 isles. There is a mountain close by called Kapakapanui. From its slopes the waters of the Waikanae River flow to the sea. His forebears left their beloved mountains and glens of Perthshire Highlands, Scotland and the white fields of Northumbria. Over the generations they voyaged to these tectonic isles.


His latest book published by Anamchara Books, New York is Waymarks for the Celtic Pilgrim Journey: Meditations and Prayers from Aotearoa New Zealand. Reviewer Ray Simpson- Author of The Way of Life for the Third Millenium, and the Celtic Book of Days. He says, “This book reveals vulnerability. It brings prophetic challenge. Above all it wings us into the Presence… It will inspire you to explore untrodden places in your life. The author is steeped in Celtic Christian traditions and uses tools such as a letter to one’s Anam-charaid, Lectio Divina, the Crossing Place, and journaling. Craig cultivates our understanding of phronema used by Eastern Church– the mind of Christ that plumbs the depth of the soul, the width of the universe, and the essence of Jesus’ Way. In the West, Celtic Christianity nurtures a similar spirituality that makes room for poetry – the ‘eye of the eagle’ and ‘the five-stringed harp– ’ the use of sound, sight, hearing, touch and scent in our lives with God on earth."



The Scriptorium Aotearoa logo represents the long-haul migratory voyage of the Kuaka from the Arctic to Aotearoa.


Notes of Language

Solas Chrìost: Scots Gaelic for 'Christ’s Light’.

Tāngata tiriti”: Te Reo Maori meaning ‘people of the Treaty of Waitangi’.

© 2025 Poet Craig A Roberts, Scriptorium Aotearoa
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  • Ocean Meditations

    Ocean Meditations
    2025/07/28

    Ocean Mediations

    From Waymarks for the Celtic Pilgrim; and Ocean’s Song.

    First Meditation

    Antipodean Courtship

    (A Fable)

    Unimpeded ocean flows,

    tempestuous winds, water, ice

    encircles the realm of southern isles -

    volcanoes who defy ocean’s writhe.

    ~

    Here, two albatross wander,

    feed, breed, dance together.

    Courtship’s unshattered dance binds

    together till death, lovers forever.

    ~

    But comes a day, a notorious act shatters;

    a longline maelstrom snares her plumes;

    his soul seared, her life broken-

    an empty vestment beneath the waves.

    ~

    The sun’s fingers massage his back,

    warms his skull, sinewed flesh, and breath.

    His soul confined by grief’s spell

    where dark spaces close light’s door.

    ~

    On the edge between external vestment

    and internal truth, there is only grief-

    a piercing blade, a desolate moment,

    where dignity of his seared soul dissolves.

    ~

    Desolation drives his soul to flee,

    life’s love stolen by human ways.

    On huge broad wings he glides,

    wanders wayward o’er Antipodes.

    ~

    Alone on the wind, undisturbed

    above crashing elusive waves,

    over horizon’s edge, the albatross

    turns to face what’s in his mortal midst.

    ~

    Dawn’s rays enter, darkness’ edge flees,

    And his Creator nudges within.

    Gently through desolation’s storm,

    a courtship dance with Christ is born.


    Second Mediation


    Ocean's Isolation

    The line of wake disappears,

    as I watch an Albatross change its course

    I sway with the motion of inner seas,

    listening to the cry of the wind,

    enthralled riding the running waves.


    No earthly foundations here

    the unseen abyss below.

    As ocean’s spray bathes my eyes

    I sense no coming storms, no rogue waves,

    Yet dissonance stirs from Spiorad Naomh.


    In ocean’s isolation I set my sails,

    wandering thoughts deflect heart and soul,

    till a resounding sense of awesome light,

    the fingers of God, strikes my eyes:

    dissonance upwells like a rogue wave!


    Spiorad Naomh speaks,

    “The Albatross heard! Why not you?

    Wisdom is mine, listen close!

    No longer braid rope with sand,

    voyage by the wisdom of Crìost!”


    Notes on Language

    Scots Gaelic:

    Crìost: Messiah

    Spiorad Naomh: Holy Spiirit

    © 2025 Craig A. Roberts


    https://www.amazon.com/Waymarks-Celtic-Pilgrim-Journey-Meditations-ebook/dp/B0D9DV9QDM
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  • Call to Voyage

    Call to Voyage
    2025/07/21

    Fàilte / Welcome to Prayers and Mediations with Poet Craig A. Roberts from Scriptorium Aotearoa.

    Contemplative Cue

    Let the Holy Spirit

    be your Companion

    across unimagined wastelands,

    between mind and soul,

    where lost spiritual sensibilities

    become awakened

    by Divine revelation.


    Ode to a Long-Haul Voyage

    O let it be,

    in heavy swells,

    where white waves chant,

    wailing winds pulsate

    and humpback whales breach;

    there amid ocean’s power

    let me hear the silent

    turning of the tides-

    God’s transforming hand.


    O let it be,

    the economy

    of my driving powers -

    intellect, desires and will -

    be transformed

    by An Gèadh Fiadhaich

    in the Living Word,

    the One who formed

    the surge of the sea.


    O let it be,

    on a long-haul voyage

    with An Gèadh Fiadhaich

    my curach currents pull

    over upwelling seas.

    From murmuring depths

    of heart, soul and mind

    births God’s magnum opus,

    ‘The Changing of the Tides’.


    Notes on Language use of Scots Gaelic

    An Gèadh Fiadhaich: “The Wild Goose,” the poetic name for the Holy Spirit - untamed by humanity.

    Curach / Curragh (Irish): Small boat made of wickerwork covered in watertight material (Leather, canvas).


    https://www.amazon.com/Waymarks-Celtic-Pilgrim-Journey-Meditations-ebook/dp/B0D9DV9QDM
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    2 分
  • Letter to Anam-charaid: Waymark -Voyage

    Letter to Anam-charaid: Waymark -Voyage
    2025/07/14

    Fàilte / Welcome to Scriptorium Aotearoa Podcast with Craig A. Roberts.

    Season 1 presents eight Letters to Anam-charaid (Scots-Gaelic for Soul friend) from my book Waymarks for the Celtic Pilgrim Journey: Meditations and Prayers from Aotearoa New Zealand. The first letter speaks to the Waymark, “Voyage”.


    Letter to Anam-charaid

    Dear Anam-charaid,

    Your innerscape,

    an interior world

    a wilderness

    awaiting an exodus

    of tongue, heart and deed

    into alternate ways

    of Heaven on Earth -

    Not forged by counterpressures

    of secular minds.

    No. A voyage formed

    by the phronema

    of Crìost.

    https://www.amazon.com/Waymarks-Celtic-Pilgrim-Journey-Meditations-ebook/dp/B0D9DV9QDM
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