Look upon our affliction and defend our cause I am too young to go. I want mother—I heard her voice sharp, frightened, panicked. I want her arms. “No, sister, no. Mother will come back. She has to make our supper.” Redeem us speedily for the sake of your name. They speak strange words. They shout, […]
Read more "October 7, 2023"Frumpish, glummy, deep the dark—looming in decline. Bold the figure challenging: cheerful, lethe, sublime. Gilded light shines on his back, a warming, bellished charm that spills like courage past his head, and wards him from all harm. But deeply still the longsome gloom lies grensome here, and stark, and only light can burn it out—a […]
Read more "The Challenger"As we bob apples that are dappled like they’ve grappled with the cold, Peering under, we seek plunder, bits of yellow apple gold People dipping heads in, dripping, snag their tokens of the fall. Latching onto catching one, two, twigs then rise with apples twain Each rise, grinning, fresh with winning, this beginning of delights. […]
Read more "Bobbing for Apples"The trees seem thin, shedding the leaves they’ve been burdened with and follow the season plan. All stands still and….FLASH. A deer hurtles past, flits past tree slits the light has lit. Skinny and slight as the bright, turns straight toward my sight STOPS. Holds her pause- as if to cause- the pops and swush […]
Read more "Close Encounter"He stands bravely, silent as stone. People about: milling, talking tour guides speaking, children walking. – Face set like flint, toward the unknown. while children squeal—a happy sound chase one another, dive to the ground. – Straight as a pillar, white as bone as darkness drapes the evening sky, fireworks snap! Bursting and high. – […]
Read more "Guardian"I gobbled life voraciously, assuming each unending bit for me. For free. I still bite eagerly, but recently each piece seems heaven’s costly peace. – – – Photo by Ana M.: https://www.pexels.com
Read more "There was a time"He kneels before me both arms wide begging for clemency again— like he didn’t know the pay plan. – eyes trained on me, as if I’m tied to some special code of kindness, overriding sense with blindness, – as if some mercy should divide him from his failures, change his ways, forgive his debts for […]
Read more "Blueprint for Mercy"What kind of boon to fight temptation keep demons at bay and bless mankind with goodness is found within an autumn apple eaten on a fence at sunset? – – – Photo by Erik Mclean: https://www.pexels.com/photo/aged-wooden-fence-in-lush-forest-in-rural-area-5753341/
Read more "Quiddity"I felt the sigh of other worlds and never thought it was But when I reached the end at last I felt the ache…and new. – So truly thus, and ever must ethereal worlds intrude till pierced to life by dying breath we follow autumn home. – – Photo by Lina Kivaka: https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-leafed-tree-selective-focus-photography-1585892/
Read more "Alien"He opened up the skies and mercy fell to earth in silver-lines the rains of sacrificial grace. – And here we stand immersed in water sparks of love grieving that the rains put out our sacrifice. – We see the pluming smoke– our idols unappeased– as Father bends and opens up His arms to us. […]
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