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Poetry

  • Grace to You Today

      Grace to you this day. Free flowing, fresh, thirst quenching, life altering, mind bending, countenance lifting, laughter evoking, heart wrenching, heart mending, sweet, precious grace to you. Grace to you that is greater than sin, disappointment, and fear. Grace… Continue reading

  • Timing

    We set urgent goals, make urgent plans, play urgent roles,Pray urgent prayers, seek urgent interventions for urgent cares. God quietly, silently, patiently hears our cries, our fears, our sobbing tears. God speaks and cage-rattles as silently and patiently to our rage-… Continue reading

  • Who Can I Lift Today?

    Who can I lift todayFrom dregs or rags or rubble?"Who will lift me?" replies the bit of me within meWhose focus, inverted and cross eyed causes me to Stumble over unexpected opportunities."Refocus!" Shouts the me within me that can see,Refocus and… Continue reading

  • Wake-Walking

    I am wake-walking through a garden of dreams, eyes open, heart pounding, life-affirming. I am dreaming within a dream of dreams yet to be. My heart is full of emptiness being filled and refilled. My life is an adventure where… Continue reading

  • Hard Times

      Isaiah 48:10"See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction."Hard times are creeping all over.   Everyone looking for a four leafed clover. Life as we know it isn't so… Continue reading

  • More to Do

    There is more to do than can be done. There is a smorgasbord of fun. The race is longer than can be run. Face it; we are under the gun. So … do what you can while you can. "“As… Continue reading

  • Life Academy

    Life Academy We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork… Continue reading

  • For Your Birthday – Whenever It Is

    Happy Birthday   The perplexing poles of gratitude and regret, Pictures in the mind we cannot forget, Unwritten sonnets, unsung songs, Unfulfilled wishes, un-righted wrongs. Tempered and enveloped by words aptly spoken, Mended hearts which once were broken, Loves requited,… Continue reading

  • Today

    Today is now. Now it is today. Tomorrow is not yet, but when it is, will be today. Then today will be yesterday. And we will start over. So, if you are going to do anything at all, do it… Continue reading

  • I am wake-walking through a garden of dreams, eyes open, heart pounding, life-affirming.

    I am wake-walking through a garden of dreams, eyes open, heart pounding, life-affirming. I am dreaming within a dream of dreams yet to be. My heart is full of emptiness being filled and refilled. My life is an adventure where… Continue reading