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Flesh and Soul
Are they stars or dust? And what, then, am I? Is it silent or hushed 'neath the snow-cloudy sky? Are the tree branches growing or...
Sep 14, 20241 min read
Rainy Night
Life’s so noisy. It’s not easy to be quiet. If you are, though, if you listen, the tapping rain keeps time with your ticking heart the...
Jul 6, 20241 min read
Purpose
What goodness is gained from fancy-free flitting? from pining for pleasure? from dodging discomfort? I’d rather find fruit in the fallow...
Jun 28, 20241 min read
Lonely Soul
This poem is based on the experiences of friends of mine who grew up in the U.S. but live in other parts of the world. I think there's a...
Jun 14, 20241 min read
Half-life
Life often fails to offer opportunities to choose. Happy, sad, rich, poor—these things are more fact than function of our fiction free...
Jun 7, 20241 min read
The Aftermath of Fellowship
The silence kept holy to the echoes of chat and laughter of joys and sorrows shared The sinkful of plates testifies to the many who’ve...
Jun 1, 20241 min read
Little
It’s your little heart that feels things big your little arms that hug me huge your little eyes that see it all your little world that...
May 26, 20241 min read
Stories
When your mother tells her story, how she fell in love before he crossed her path, you never think those men were more than cameos that...
May 18, 20241 min read
The City is Sinking
The city is sinking by increments. Etching an impression that’s permanent. The sheer pressing force, the full weight of it depress earth...
May 11, 20241 min read
Living
I will fill up my lungs with the cool wind I will soak my pale face with warm sun Dig my hands greedily into deep sand And dare mountains...
May 4, 20241 min read
How to Sing
Breathe. Fill yourself with the silent stuff of sound. Feel lungs press muscles press ribs. Expand until your stature commands the room’s...
Apr 26, 20241 min read
Thirty-thousand Feet
Indigo shadows anchor foaming clouds to earth. Blinding mountains crawl slowly over the face of the ground. From a god’s-eye view, I...
Apr 19, 20241 min read
In a Quiet Far from Stillness
In a quiet far from stillness, the solemn trees applaud with rasping leaves the brash wind shooting shadow-waves along the wrinkled...
Apr 13, 20241 min read
In Memory of Quiet
This never-ending noise is grating. Pointless at best exhausting at least at worst, strangling the soul. Clamoring for attention,...
Mar 14, 20241 min read
Common Grace
Common grace, creation’s song, uncommon to be heard by herds of heavy-burdened souls not listening to the birds who whistle chirping...
Jun 17, 20221 min read
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