stop holding out your hand you just embarrass both of us i don’t want to know i care go talk to someone else i’m going to my room now go away – stop coming in my room! the creaking floor-boards make me sad you’re gonna hurt yourself please leave my room. go away – stop […]
Read more "Go Away"We see our fathers standing strong, the granite pillars of the church, who drove the nails into the door, who boldly drew the word and preached like thunder from a stormy sky. – We look around and mourn our loss— for “godly men have ceased to be,” and so we venerate the past and make […]
Read more "The Thunder of Reform"Who can know the purpose of the King, or probe His mind to hear His hidden ways? Who can tell the reason for their days, the sighs or joys their earthly song will sing? They come in anguished sorrow oft to ring their pleas and prayers before the throne and gaze steadfastly waiting, ready for […]
Read more "Waiting in the Dark"It rushes down the mountain: a cataract of sound a spray of mist and shade-light a roaring, silence round. – I pick my steps on slick-stones, a cat afraid of glass, to plunge my head beneath it and feel it—surging past – I feel the flecking wet sparks I step onto the ledge, but find […]
Read more "A Severe Delight"If men could walk on water, they’d fool around all day, hang by the village fountain do tricks while people pay. – If we could snap our fingers make all injustice right– our legs would turn to ramen for we’d never learn to fight. – If rulers knew, unquestioned the truth on every hand, they’d […]
Read more "If Only…"Changing winds tousling trees, leaves that jump and run the streets, pumkins and spice and football and Keats, blazing sun–90 degrees.
Read more "October"Disclaimer: This poem has nothing to do with my life. I cannot emphasize this enough. Also, it means nothing. Literally. This is what happens when you listen to too much sappy pop music, and think “I could do THAT.” Performances of the song are welcome. But the name of the band MUST be “Parakeet Moon”. I […]
Read more "I Find My Friend"To the tune of : “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord” I hide my hope in Christ— the Lord of all my days; the One who framed eternity and taught my soul its ways – I never knew His grace I never sought His throne. And yet the Father turned my will and made me Christ’s […]
Read more "I Hide my Hope in Christ"I walked my walk up to a house of glass and up the crystal stairs that gleamed and shined with sun. I walked up to a house that was my life, and hardly knew what I had done. – The walls were mirrored: reflecting, liquid worlds, that whirled around their world: my presence at their […]
Read more "My Glass House"Help me O Lord, for my soul shrinks away, my flesh is consumed with groaning. My body groans as an old man, my spirt, like a grieving mother. For round and round my thoughts have gone and never find a rock on which to rest, leaves that float, then dip and never touch the […]
Read more "A Psalm for Rescue From my Sin"
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