Death Crippled

A crunch of fruit,  and Death slipped his hands  around God’s masterpiece  and squeezed, pressing the life out  nice and slow.  Every child delivered,  he caught  by the throat.  Some, he strangled  straightaway. Others, he dragged gasping across the rugged terrain of years to the graveyard. No one escaped his grasp.  Not even God.  Death […]

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Rain

I’ve seen the sky break free to run, letting down a billion feet to race like school boys through the grass and plunk their footprints on my glass. Enchanted by the winsome beat, I could not miss the hiding sun.

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On a Foggy Morning

  The earth has donned her misty veil, With softened beauty, waiting for the sun To bound up strong above the trees And live again the ancient dawn When night and day first wed above the seas, The stars as witness to the two as one Who dance till earth and sky shall fail.

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Autumn

On aged and crispy pages of September, She loves to write her name with sweet finesse, In long and swirling script around the trees; Unseen, but not unfelt, just as the breeze That forms the flutt’ring train of Autumn’s dress– An auburn trail, enchanting to remember.

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