Category Archives: Poetry
Like Grace
Snow falls in a gentle haze Flakes nearly imperceptible Until I squint sideways against the dark like grace Are they falling or merely Suspended? am I? In this place between Sick and well Heaven and hell Compassion and discontent? How … Continue reading
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Go Forward!
An opaque sky clots in the throat Like wet cement, Bloated words siphoning color From dawn’s thin fingers He was born today A “Sherman tank” built to play Throwing stones and balls and Hotdog bites from his highchair tray Wearing … Continue reading
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Bleeding into Light
You’re broken and you’re beautiful because you Breathe Jesus Soul deep, risking all, holding nothing back, Refusing to be bound by convention – brushed on, touched up, colored over, trimmed away, lit right empty Because beauty isn’t artificial Its shattered … Continue reading
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To Wrap You in Red
I long to Wrap you in red To drape the Jagged fragments Of your pain in Scarlet folds of love, And gather wounded days In love’s embrace As crimson’s plush Absorbs the tears And time ticks by Unseen, To swathe … Continue reading
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Quest to Breathe
It began with The cry of my heart To notice mercy Spreading slow across the sky, Beauty in the broken, Embers in the ash, Moments raining light And love and grace, Glimmers in grief, Hope gently rising with the mist, … Continue reading
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Grace Whispers the World White
Be still my soul on this silent night, Cupped in the moon’s embrace as Grace whispers the world white. Pause for breath on the edge of night, As shadows lean low and long, oh Be still my soul on this … Continue reading
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Gift of the Heart, Words of the Soul
I’m dust Just a bit of broken humanity Clothed in sin An invisible speck On this spinning globe Of faces Broken, Hurting, Ensnared in self Who am I that You should care? I have nothing to offer But words… Beyond … Continue reading
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Careless Words
leaves plucked from childhood trees and pebbles scuffed with the shoe, seem flecks of insignificance absently tossed to the wind, bits and crumbs brushed to the floor delighting the dog, and heedlessly wounding the soul *Careless words stab like a … Continue reading
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To Be Known
Pouring from deep emotion longing for expression, this poem grew from Christian Writer’s November Blog Chain theme, “Nine”, and these nine (nine letter) words/phrases that kept thundering through my thoughts: engulfing, exquisite, sanctuary, shattered, softening, suffocate, surrender, touch deep, to … Continue reading
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A Softening
This little spot of ground Needs no watering or weeding For what sinks a tender Root into sun-baked dirt? I wonder when seed first failed to sprout On this palm-sized patch of yard? Summer bleached the brown oasis hard Amid … Continue reading
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Hope Like Crimson Roses
Broken bits of autumn leaves Press into the ground As we stand huddled against the chill. “I’m mad at God today.” Single file Eight men assemble In solemn rows To lift the cherry box And I wrap my arms around … Continue reading
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Freshly Washed
Rounded mounds of known Tumble like fall leaves, A splatter paint of sleeves Linked seam and weave, Colors disentangled arm by arm, Rhythmic folds of life Eased into neat stacks, Scarlet-dyed, Waft and warp, a generous Stewardship of love Palms … Continue reading
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Breathe
To breathe Side by side Simply present Touch, Lace edge of grace, As flesh is rent from flesh, One heart and beat Through decades of days Torn in two I don’t know what to do! Just breathe That’s it? That’s … Continue reading
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Embrace
Dripping in liquid lines Across the skin, Barest breath of Himalayan dew Cascades into exquisite Embrace of cashmere. Linking up with TS Poetry Press for the poetry prompt “cashmere.”
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Why Poetry?
Poetry is breath, Image draped bare Over ochre emotion Finest strands of gold Woven word by word, Hue and breadth into life, A palette of diamonds Dripping from silver filigree, Piercing points of Liquid luminescence Spilling depth across the page … Continue reading
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To See
To see into Instead of skimming over, Passing by, Rushing through To STOP In the midst of busy, p a u s e With a quiet heart And observe One moment, One breath, F U L L Questions Skimmed from … Continue reading
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Swing Wide the Door
What if love was inexhaustible, And lives never Shattered in the storm? What if every neighborhood Boasted a garden of diversity Called Beautiful, Instead of different, Other, Humanity in every Hue and shape and shade and size Splashing breadth and … Continue reading
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A Harvest of Words
Words, language, Voices, sounds Crowd the open spaces Vying for attention See me! Hear me! Notice me! p l e a s e But it’s hard to hear Through the crushing, Bruising wordfall Of humanity Hard to breathe Among spindly, … Continue reading
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The Poetry of Rust, An Offering
Poetry bleeds rust Corrosion, erosion Decay A breaking down Peeling away Of polished veneers And fabricated sheen, A consuming Bubbling up of Layers and words Stripped clean of Excess Till all that remains Is essence of the whole Fitted into … Continue reading
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Absorbing Color
To see Takes time Like to have a friend, Investment Choice Slowing Presence In the moment, Being all there, Saturated, nourished Fed on abundance of TIME Absorbing color And taste and heat And heart Fragrant and flush, Vibrant with possibility, … Continue reading
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