Jesus – Page 26 – Another Fearless Year

June 23, 2015

Monsoon of Mercy

At dVerse Poets Pub today, Abhra tells a tale of the monsoon season in India. The “prompt” for the day is fairly vague, so I drew from Abhra’s story about how the hot, dry summer is followed by the monsoon. And I tapped into the...

Slips Away

I’ve been thinking a lot about my sister Peggy lately, perhaps because her death is the subject of the first chapter of the book I’m working on. Yesterday the refrain for this Kyrielle came to me and then I finished the poem this morning. 8/20/15...

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June 17, 2015

Let’s Have Lamb

Let’s Have Lamb I was thinking Why don’t we have lamb instead of bread for communion? Since Jesus was the Lamb of God who was slain shouldn’t lamb represent His body? I’m not complaining, mind you I don’t even like lamb And everyone loves bread...

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June 10, 2015

Have No Fear

So I’ve written two Kyrielles, Let Me Carry You with the rhyme scheme abaB cbcB dbdB, and An Odd Kyrielle with the rhyme scheme aaaR bbbR cccR. There is a third rhyme scheme option with the Kyrielle, and that is aabB ccbB ddbB. I just had to write one. I...

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June 3, 2015

Let Me Carry You

The other day I was reading some entries in The Poetry Dictionary by John Drury. I know, that sounds pretty nerdy, but I love learning new poetry forms and trying them out. I found a new form called the Kyrielle. It is a “French four-line...

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May 28, 2015

I Was a Seed

Brian Ens is running the show at dVerse Poets Pub today and is asking us to write a poem in any form. The catch? We have to explain why we chose the form that we did. I decided to write a Rondeau. I selected this form...

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May 27, 2015

Reputation

No one whispers to you what they whisper about you to others Though they might taunt and tease And while there may be truth in the taunting it’s never the whole truth Only God knows the whole truth your whole heart the pain in the...

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May 26, 2015

Where Peace Is Found

The prompt today at dVerse Poets Pub is to write about something that is part of our every day life. I could have written about any number of things, but decided to write about prayer. Where Peace Is Found Kneeling here elbows leaning on my...

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May 19, 2015

It’s 2:00 a.m.

Anthony Desmond has challenged us over at dVerse Poets Pub to write a poem incorporating 2:00 a.m. Here’s what I came up with. It’s 2:00 a.m. It’s 2:00 a.m. I should be sleeping Tomorrow’s a big day But I’m wide awake It’s 2:10 I should...

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May 14, 2015

Courageous

The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is to write using antithesis. Bjorn asks us to use contrasting terms to encompass the real truth of the matter as we live in a world both black and white at the same time. As the topic of...

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Another Fearless Year

Tag: Jesus

Monsoon of Mercy

Slips Away

Let’s Have Lamb

Have No Fear

Let Me Carry You

I Was a Seed

Reputation

Where Peace Is Found

It’s 2:00 a.m.

Courageous

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Monsoon of Mercy

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Slips Away

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