Love and Stillness

Be still

and know

I AM.

Know

I AM

and

be still.

Reposting this from the archives because my words have been stilled this week.

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But now thoughts travel.

I remember silence across miles.

A bench seat center.

Knee to . . . → Read More: Love and Stillness

Time Out to Celebrate Megan

(Reposting this from October because it just seems fitting today.)

Lyla Lindquist is celebrating, too.

Be sure to join the party at her place.

And we’re celebrating with Jennifer over at Getting Down with Jesus.

SUNRISE

by Megan Willome

It’s disgraceful

All this color

Splattered

Pink flung

. . . → Read More: Time Out to Celebrate Megan

Because it’s My Birthday: Horseshoe Lake (revisited)

I planned to skip today.

I mean, celebrating my birthday with the one who gave me birth being gone now two days shy of only two months just seemed–well, too hard.

I even stripped my birthdate off my Facebook profile so it could pass quietly.

I tried to share my feelings with one family member–perhaps not very . . . → Read More: Because it’s My Birthday: Horseshoe Lake (revisited)

Lacustrine Heart

Unravel the day

in solferino rivers

that flow to

Eden’s cor.

Unzip my skin,

unwrap lacustrine heart

beside the Horseshoe,

my world’s waters,

and let me simply drink

of Adam’s ale.

Inspired by the morning sky. Not adequately captured by The Droid.

. . . → Read More: Lacustrine Heart

To My Mother: A Villanelle

I held you captive in my sight
while evil fingers burrowed deep, and
I heard you crying in the night.

While you focused on the light
and pumpkin-apple deer stood watch
I held you captive in my sight.

You pulled strings, made magic sleight
with finger-writing in the air, . . . → Read More: To My Mother: A Villanelle

Photoplay From My Back: Comfortable

 

I hover over her

squint at tilted back and crooked neck.

Are you comfortable?

She looks up at me.

Are you?

No.

I tug and pull and fluff.

How is that–

are you comfortable now?

She looks up at me.

Are you?

. . . → Read More: Photoplay From My Back: Comfortable

Yellow Leaves

Nothing left but yellow leaves

they fall in earnest now

like tears

and tumble in the wind.

Stripped limps stretch

and reach through gray

to touch the sun and wait.

Hearts ache and break

for moments lost to hardened hearts

and . . . → Read More: Yellow Leaves

Cashmere Comforter

Gray billows of cashmere

spun by sacred hands

whipped cream

piled soft

heaven’s comforter.

A simple response to a T.S. Poetry Press call for cashmere poems.

Photo taken from . . . → Read More: Cashmere Comforter

Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Sunrise by Megan Willome

SUNRISE

by Megan Willome

It’s disgraceful

All this color

Splattered

Pink flung

Purple creeping

Then orange

Why orange?

The clouds grey as the sun puts on bright clothes

Who wastes color like this?

Flinging beauty willy-nilly

As if everyone would see this sunrise

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Don’t waste His color!

I got an . . . → Read More: Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Sunrise by Megan Willome

It Will Not End Up Here

 

How did I end up here

wrapped in a circle of poets

(I don’t even call myself a poet)

where we showed up

to taste peaches and wild grapes,

to crush the flesh of nectarine

and sing fig songs?

How did I end up here

. . . → Read More: It Will Not End Up Here