Royal carpet spreads velvet stars and brittle leather sun kissed in the morning chill. Shadows dance on light dappled nest for weary and wrinkled spirit. No minor beauty creeps along brick wall to swallow weeds and wrap thirsty soil in trailing vines lush with lavender blue promise. Dedicated […]
Monday Meditation: The Middle of Midnight
A Roman-sealed stone could not hold Him. God unwrapped in Jesus. Grave clothes shed. Death defied. Prison break. Freed to free. Forever fourth day. ******** Plummeted in darkness. Possessed by my possessions. I follow phantom gods. Arms outstretched, He calls my name. Nails mend shredded heart. He rolls away the stones. And in the middle […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Seize Today (A Poem)
It’s been a crazy day. Part of which was spent househunting with my son and his fiancee. So I have reached back into the archives for today’s meditation. Seize Today I will seize today for it is shiny and new sparkling with promise a gift wrapped with possibilities and ribbons of delight. Anticipation. I […]
Window on Writing: Not Yet (A Random Act of Poetry)
I gather heart shreds and try to stuff them into the hollow of my heaving chest as moon grins thin through dark cocoon and hair spills wet on pillow. Let it go But still I cling. Not yet Forgiveness knots in stomach seeks release but I hang on a little longer. It’s too soon The […]
Through and Through: Shhhhhhh
Be still and know I AM. Know I AM and be still. Some weeks are more stressful than others. Filled with more interruptions and unpleasant surprises. That yet hold seeds of possibilities. This has been one of those weeks. Shhhhhhh, The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. ~Exodus […]
Sunday Seasoned Sayings: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning Tu lips were made to praise the Lord! And tulips, children love to stretch Their fingers down, to feel in each Its beauty’s sweet nearer. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning A Flower in a Letter You believe In […]
Groaning for Japan
Sun bursts through banks of rolling pink and laughs all gold. Another dawn explodes with hope. A day like any other, with plans and expectations. I eat my oatmeal milked and sweet with slice of amber buttered. Steaming tea in hand, I sit. A crow catches draft and sails above corn stubble in bowl of […]
Window on Writing: What’s in a Word?
What’s in a Word? a seed mined from a thought planted on a page dispersed with a breath a jewel with many facets pregnant with personality filled with power and rich with a million possibilities A Random Act of Poetry for The High Calling where we are asked to write a poem that tells a […]
Window on Writing: Sing and Fly
Time lengthens and slows down. To work at a poem is to enter a sacred and timeless space, the field of infinite possibilities. It is a place of silences wherein the chief activities are watching and listening. ~Sandford Lyne in Writing Poetry from the Inside Out: Finding Your Voice through the Craft of Poetry. Sing […]
Window on Writing: The Sounds of Silence
Deeply listening to what is within and around us changes us. ~John Fox I’ve tried to write to the sound of music. It doesn’t work for me. I create better in silence. Although there really isn’t such a thing. It’s when I’m silent that I hear the sounds of silence. Silence makes you attentive to […]
