I felt Your hand gently upon my shoulder. “Fear not, my child. You must be bolder.” I felt Your breath upon my neck, whispering in my ear, “Don’t look at the speck.” Your booming
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Tag: Poetry
Play It Again
“Play It Again,” captures bittersweet memories and emotions of family and friends who gathered at our house on Friday or Saturday nights. The men played music. Women talked and laughed. We children played outside until
Read moreA Sole Supports Our Soaring Soul
Yule Sawe Mungu is a rough translation Our Same God in Swahili
Read moreA Baby Blanket Wide as The Sky
The dream forwards.We’re weeks from grand baby to be,plums barely clinging to the branch. The ocean, a little further thanthe next door rooster, breaks on the beachanticipating our family strolls. God has no grandchildren.The one
Read moreThicker Than Skin
His Blood’s thicker than water that much we already knew. His Blood’s thicker than Pepsi I tell you that’s Good News for the generation. His Blood’s thicker than cowboy coffee boiling under the stars, thicker
Read moreProdigal Pop
A curtain of birds slights the silver bay light. June vines vault the hedge with berry blossoms and thorns. Our son’s offered work, and my coffee’s warm as the sun. I’ll seek counsel to deal
Read moreHis Face in the Vase
The final splay of our tulip is a table top Ferris wheel purple petals wide as a lion’s mane. Flowering jumble in a water jar, the bulb bring life and the stem snipped for the
Read moreChoir Practice
His constant constellation Is home to the Worthy Star Watching over the lonely. The night, silent again Throbs in stellar concert. Midnight, clear. Shepherds await the returning angels, Tell us where and when To stand.
Read morePew Cue
All too quiet hymn,front row child squeals, “Mama.”Reminds us, of All.
Read moreThe Invisible Inks
The write feather in the wind twirls on the head of a pin. The forest sees through us, branch light as owls, dark as a horse. Takes a big foot to mark the way we
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