Only, Alone

Spread the Word to Christian lands Open Grace holds out its hands, Lasting hope through Christ is won Absolution through the Son. – – Photo by John-Mark Smith: https://www.pexels.com

Mist

Swirled–a whirl of other worlds colliding with our own; a dark grey-bound white thick as fright and hovers–just beyond the reach of normal steadiness. Nature’s drunk the cup and reels about in undetermined bliss or gloom and masks the grass with fog. – – – Photo by Anton Atanasov: https://www.pexels.com

A Sunday Prayer

Today You burst the bonds of earth and flew to heights of risen joy, taking captive, captive host giving gifts and life long lost – My feet, set squarely on the earth, are disinclined to leap with joy. Your captive mercy feels coerced I (oh so faintly!) feel my dearth. – The truth I know, […]

Leaves Much to be Desired

Leaves are bits of rare gold-dust swirling, whirling, down to man; ruby, russet, emerald that cover up the browning grass like jewels. Such renewals start by dropping gems like glass shattering hues till reassembled green can peak from trees again. The currency exchange we trust. – – Photo by Jessica Fadel on Unsplash

Prayer for Gilboa

The dew lies glassy on the grass like tears. The early mourning sun has touched the sky. And far above, that promontory high, Gilboa, rises from the misty years. The shrike of arms, the shattering of spears— seem memories the wind bears in its sigh, The place for kings and warriors to die groans wearying […]

October 7, 2023

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, […]

The Challenger

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 […]

Bobbing for Apples

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. […]

Close Encounter

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 […]

Guardian

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. – […]

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