Category: poetry
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Existence
Read More →I once asked an old man with scraggly gray hair, beard, and a cheery squint “How do you know if God exists?” The old man replied, “Does love exist? ” “Yes,” I answered. “Does good exist?” “Of course…” I said. “Does kindness exist?” “I couldn’t imagine a world where it didn’t!” “Then that’s how you […]
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Clear Touch
Read More →Out of the grasp of deaths violent clutch What of the good if time’s not much Enfolded by the feeling of life’s clear touch Why hast thou not seen it as such Know thou not, that he has destroyed the crutch?
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A Dream
Read More →Feb. 2010 Deep in the night my soul was caught up into a drama larger than life and I found myself at a table where peoples of diversity were gathered Our conversation was in multiple languages and I could speak things to different people in their own languages There was an air of respect among […]
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Muddy Preacher
Read More →So this is it, this drama, this stage, this glory, this rage! Come get your love on and get hyped on and then chewed on! Who cares? says the prophet, There’s blood in the sink and broken glass and you missed it, don’t try to find it, it will find you The train is passing […]
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Deliverance
Read More →Feb. 2009 Deliverance is like a owl perched beneath a moonlit sky Far above the hindrance of time and gravity below A gusty breeze ruffles through its feathers but it is motionless There is much anticipation in the air It scans the shadows and the blueness of the fields Looking as if it is at […]
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At The Head Of Every Street
Read More →The orphan is verily vainly aware of a woman lurking in a shadow of despair Parched from thirst with nothing to eat Stones lie scattered at the head of the street Bereaved, alone, and a face black as soot Lay he there hungry, trampled underfoot Born on stony ground, in thickets unsweet His mother scorns […]
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I Chose You
Read More →I stood afar off empty, calloused, obsessed with the wretch of my self Uncultured, unrefined, untaught, unenlightened. And One came to my presence to appear before me Who is He, and who was I that he should have been mindful of me? He called to me out of the fire, said my name. I could […]
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There Is But One Thing Necessary
Read More →Filled with empty tasks and overcome with anxiety Her heart is debauched with the wine of yesterday’s agendas, tomorrow’s plans, today’s hopes Her face is low and cumbersome to look at. The pace of her work is multiplied into ignorance As the sun rises and vents its clandestine gleam upon her It glances off of […]
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God is God
Read More →I saw Satan fall like lightning My heart though weak, was hedged in Resistance is futile, that is the vanity of man But God is God, and that is the glory of God Resist the devil and he will flee But not only from you, but Christ in You O foolish man! Oh you of […]
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Broken Soul
Read More →Many places to find a name But this darkness won’t let me go Everyday is the same old game Why can’t I just let it flow? Songs of love and butterflies All I want is not there to have Many words cast to and fro But what about the broken soul? Daunting tasks in the […]