Poetic Justice … you can take it with you
Journalism reports yesterday’s news. Like the weather, it needs no re-cap. No sense keeping that around. Fiction tells a good story. Entertaining, but unless those characters make a home with us, one and done. yet… Poetry bears telling and re-telling, reading and re-reading. Poems speak newness, reading into us, as we are new. The one we […]
Ex-Poser
You know it when you read it. You haven’t heard from this friend in a looong time, but it’s nice that they are trying to reconnect. You accept their friend request and they respond pleasantly enough. “Thanks for accepting my request. How are things going with you?” You send a brief reply, intending to follow up […]
I am the vine, and you …
This vine was entwined in my laces after my morning run. Look what unfolded!
Join Your Life, Already in Progress
“I have so many choices facing me right now, Guiding God…I listen for your voice. I listen with an open heart. I trust that you will guide me to the right choices. In this trusting, I am going to move out in faith and open the doors in front of me… Ever present God, the […]
The Dance of Life
Gliding, flowing, streaming across the surface, without effort without care without fear, she slides along. The ice is slick, but, on razor’s edge, she is balanced and strong. Her blade is firm, posture sturdy, confidence in full bloom. Leaping, landing, forward and backing, running, jumping, dancing and whirling, spinning, stopping, pure delight. Shall we dance? […]
Welcoming the Stranger
Unlikely partners, these two, One tall and statuesque, the other short and squat. One, firm and defined, Hands neatly latch their way up the ladder of the palm tree bark. The other, raucous and unwieldy, Green sprigs, as a rogue lock Escaping from the ponytail. One, disciplined and ordered. the other, doing as it pleases. […]
The Life of a Book
My paternal grandfather didn’t set out to be a writer. In fact, I’m told he wanted to be an opera singer. These aspirations took him traveling across Germany where he learned to speak the language fluently and, as it turns out, fell in love with the life and writings of Martin Luther. So much so […]
Sneak Attacks of Joy
You sneaky Joy You wait just ’round the corner poised to … leap just as soon as I come your way. There you are across the street as I open the door to the new day. Is that you who tickled me as I watched the children playing and the teens jostling and the white-haired […]
Running Twice as Fast Will Never Get you Here
Ah fiction. It has so much truth to tell… They were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all Alice could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying “Faster! Faster!”… The most curious part of the thing was, that … however fast they went, […]
The Shaping of Us
There is something fascinating about driftwood. It’s lighter than it should be, yet strong and durable. Weathered and aged, yet youthful and beautiful. It never fails to call my attention when it washes ashore. One small piece demanded picking up. It was a perfect miniature canoe, cigar-shaped and sized with a space hollowed near the […]