Lazy Snowflakes

Not in a hurry, the flurries tumble, wind-borne, up and down and ‘round.

Useless

I give them my word and then it breaks— splintered letters I cannot hold together in the weakness of my hands. I try to splint them back, force the word to work—cracks and all, but I have faded from rock to wood to settled ash. The promises of yesterday, I can no longer lift, and […]

To the Shepherds

To the shepherds whose hearts bore some small, fragmented reflection of His own, He came— the good Shepherd, small and swaddled, given in a place where they would be welcome.

Praying for Rain

If I am a blade of grass, the world serves me drought, the feet tread—heedless—on my head, and I am brown, cracked, and bent. Wave in the wind, they say, and shine in the sun, Emerald. Sport the frost or all is lost to the grey, the ice, the end. But I am only a […]

Sound the Trumpet

The path leads through the battlefield. Oh wounded one with fallen shield, where has your vigor gone? The enemy rages wild and fierce, spewing arrows aimed to pierce and drain you, still as stone. And though your duty is the sword against the overwhelming horde, you need not fight alone. Take up the trumpet; sound […]

Head On

It was a pleasant day before the wind riled the water to pummeling waves and threats of drowning. The shore seemed too far, the paddles too heavy, the waves too high to best. Too late to hide and too dangerous to veer, we left our fears to wailing and clinging about our legs while we […]

Morning Masterpiece

I stepped out my door into a masterpiece— the strength of morning blurred by hovering, airborne water; the trees still sleeping, not yet wakened by the wind; the sunshine warming white to gold, lamp-like among the leaves; the birds waking and taking up their daily song again. I closed the door on the realms of […]

To the Pencils

Ah, pencils! Welcome, trusted friends! You ready bearers of our thoughts who sometimes break, but never bend intentions; you who take your lot verbatim, leaving us to judge what to cut and what to keep; the willing ones who, at our nudge, would scribble words without a bleep or turn and wipe the work away; […]

A Prayer for Humility

O LORD, You’ve seen the eyesore guide me— mistaken glory strutting like an idol. You’ve heard the swelling praises pride me into fantasies beyond my title. You’ve seen the fallen angels ride me like soldiers guiding horses out to fight. You’ve heard the shrieks the monster cried me— deriding, whining, striking for my rights. You’ve […]

Fireflies

Winter to spring to summer in a blur of tedium and tears, but then the timid, swelling glow of light against stale night. I forgot about the fireflies.

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Poetry