Category Archives: Poetry
The Mystery of Art
A poem in response to Tweetspeak Poetry’s Book Club discussion of The Artist’s Way, (Introduction through Week 1: Recovering a Sense of Safety). The bolded lines are author and artist Julia Cameron’s words. The rest are mine. As we are … Continue reading
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Her
She’s cotton and denim, well-worn Brown leather cut wide Across bare feet Cool tea in glass bottles ~ never sweet ~ And heavy cream Conversations You can sink your teeth into Plain maybe, but Real Not brave Just longing for … Continue reading
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One Love
Words thrum through the air And stick in my heart As I absorb them One by one Like a pin cushion Till the pain seeps Through the cracks Spilling down my cheeks Splashing across the backs of my hands Pooling … Continue reading
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Translucent
To be emptied of Imperfections Pounded and stirred, Strained fine as light Through scarlet mesh Translucent Open To become, Yielding To receive, Cupped to be Intimately filled Spirit oozing through this Heart so delicately spun It seems a voice Will … Continue reading
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Ten Million Minutes
Love is patient Love is kind Love is twenty years of moments Wrapped in promise and bright hope Seven thousand days Filled with laughter and little feet, Five moves, Two apartments, three houses, And more work than I can remember … Continue reading
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Stretch
He had to do this. Try this thing. Jump from the nest with still-wet wings. Because sometimes It’s the only way to learn To stand at the edge Leaning out Into the blue Facing the sun, Longing, Wings spread wide … Continue reading
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The Pause
Grace glides in at the edge of day On gilded rays To sprinkle sleepy blue With light As deep-lashed night Absorbs the rising sun Waking blinking morn With spectral hues Mercy in the pause Forgiveness in the still As all … Continue reading
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Raining Light
A beginning, A revealing, Moments when the fog thins And the sky breathes blue And my soul dances… When each grain of sand Refracts His Light In prism’s perfect song And verdant green pierces Pastel spring, When clouds catch fire … Continue reading
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Right into Real
Scars and stripes, Wounds we didn’t want And wouldn’t choose, Emotional, physical Spiritual, deep Pieces and bits, Marred and broken, Stones Lifted, hefted, carried, Lifted, hefted, carried A scratch, A broken fingernail, Abraded bruise, Skin split, flesh torn, Joy oozing … Continue reading
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Enraptured Delight
Dance with the shadows Dream with the night Wake gently folded In dawn’s silver light, Savor the nectar Of timeless array, Blushes of beauty Streamed into day. Step into color Lavish and long, Gather the dew drops, Bursting with song … Continue reading
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Cherish These Twelve Seconds
It’s late. He tells me he Doesn’t want to live, How he’ll do it, Take his life And I will my heart to slow, My mouth to shut So I can Hear, Reach through the red, Grab truth and Hold … Continue reading
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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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