God paints the world with colored strokes,

with emerald and vermilion;

with asteroid bursts and nebulae;

with textured tapestries of plants,

with vine-twined veins of chlorophyll;

the thump and throb of pumping life.

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God paints the world with colored strokes

with onyx stones and coal dust;

with dusky shade from cypress trees;

with layered grey and sepia;

with shadowed faces, glass-drop tears,

the smear and sting of certain loss.

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God paints the world with colored strokes,

but sometimes paints in sketches—

with ha…half formed lines and

color trails of incomplete…

Severed masterworks.

sad groaning of delayed suspense

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God paints the world with colored strokes,

with orpiment and azure;

with teeming cells and bursting suns;

with streaks of silver, specks of white;

with paint-swirled spray of ocean foam:

the pulse and throb of earnest praise.

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