An Echo from the Wilderness: Selected Poems of Fr. Amado Picardal

An Echo from the Wilderness
Poems of Fr. Amado Picardal, CSsR

Prophetic Verses


1. Pacific Landscape
2. Questions from a Child
3. Burnt Offering
4. A Lullaby for Mark
5. The Last Mass of Zacarias
6. The Atheist
7. The View from the Mountain
8. The Lost Shepherd
9. Haikus for an Empty Church
10. Grown Up
11. Death on the Tarmac
12. Psalm from Prison
13. Elegy for my Mother
14. A Psalm of EDSA
15. Haikus for Celebration
16. Aliens in our Land
17. McKinley's God
18. Howling Wilderness
19. Lamentation from No Man's Land
20. By the Campfire
21. Epic of San Fernando
22. A Sower's Farewell
23. Echo from the Wilderness

Celibate Longings


1. A Haunting Encounter
2. Eunuch's Lament
3. Regrets
4. Safe Distance
5. Revelation
6. Enchantment
7. Wall and Bridges
8. Epigram Written Near the Colloseum
9. Company
10. A Psalm of Longing
11. Childless Father
12. Noontime
13. Sunset
14. Coming Home
15. Twilight
16. Gift of Tears
17. Silver Jubilee
18. A Psalm of my Life

Cebuano Verses

1. Salmo sa Binilanggo

2. Langyaw

3. Pagtuaw Gikan sa Kaumahan

4. Panan-awon