Normally the poetry of an individual is personal and very different from his public writings. Not so with Father Duffy. His volume of poetry entitled “Lavender Lollipops.” has a character and theology consistent with his Journals: a childlike, bordering on childish simplicity. The Simplex theology that animates the poems is heavy-handed and proselytizing in nature. They are amateurish offshoots of his readings and their meter is clumsy and eccentric.
In his "Lavender Lollipops: The Poetry of Father Duffy" there are approximately 500 poems written from 1976 to November 2017. I have culled a handful from that folio which I will publish periodically.
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