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Tag Archives: poetry
A Grappler’s Prayer
Tireless God You engage this wrestling soul You immobilize me, swift with every counter. At war with You, I am outmatched, outnumbered, outmaneuvered, outranked I am an outlier. I sit […]
A Memorial Day?
Winged Babies
A painting of God’s angels caught my eye during a movie about fathers and sons reconciling. The painter’s heaven is winged babies, unusually skilled at playing harps and hovering over […]
The Fall
I drove to the Carolinas to see the drama of changing leaves on the stage of the Smoky Mountains. My mother lives there, accompanied by arthritis. She is changing, too. […]
Dreaded Hope
If it had just fallen on my toe Things might have been better But I dropped it square on my head The idea of Change Now I have a date […]
Poetic Offerings
“Try to raise up the sunken feelings of [your] enormous past… And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will […]
