Love – Page 18 – Another Fearless Year

April 5, 2015

Risen – An Easter Poem

It’s Easter, Resurrection Day, and Jesus has risen! He has risen, indeed! RISEN Risen, He’s risen, the women cried they’d seen the empty tomb with only grave clothes left inside Immanuel lives, though He died was laid in a borrowed tomb as His mother, in...

The Sound and the Silence

Deafening Hammer on nails Pounding pounding pounding A tear falls Deafening Jeers and insults Taunting taunting taunting A prayer replies Deafening Darkness and earthquake Trembling trembling trembling A price is paid And then silence

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March 26, 2015

Impossible Madness

Why does it feel like I’ve lost you when you aren’t even dead? Why am I the only one who wants to make amends? Why does it have to be so hard after all these years? Maybe it’s the tears mine and yours, and theirs,...

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March 25, 2015

My Zealous Adonai

Adonai, my Lord of love How I long to see Thy face Alight on me, Holy Dove Bread of Life, strength for the race Thy Word, my faith, sustain me Resting, resting on Thy grace Creator, who made the tree Sun and moon, all life,...

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March 24, 2015

A Beautiful Sacrifice

Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Mary challenges to write about beauty. With Good Friday and Easter on the horizon, I decided to write about the most beautiful sacrifice in all of history. A Beautiful Sacrifice It is an ugly scene A naked man with bloody...

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March 21, 2015

No Dead Poetry Allowed

Today is World Poetry Day, so I thought I’d write a poem about poetry. I hope my poetry, in general, falls into the “living poetry” category. No Dead Poetry Allowed A poem leaps off the page into the reader’s heart or it is simply words...

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March 7, 2015

The Beginnings of a Poem

This is the beginning of a poem I’m sharing for Meeting the Bar at dVerse Poets Pub, following the Oulipo option from Anna. Playing with language and poetry rules, I’m writing a poem with the following self-imposed rules: It’s a Terza Rima with 26 stanzas...

Poetry Comments: 10

March 5, 2015

My Son Shine – Reduction

Son Shine His smile a thousand rays of sunshine His laugh a hundred birds singing His dancing a silly smile and laugh His curiosity a hundred cats His temper a howling hurricane Sweet, silly, stubborn, bold is he The Meeting the Bar prompt at dVerse Poets...

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March 3, 2015

Hate Never Wins

Cain killed his brother Abel with a rock because of hate But in the end Cain didn’t win Hate never wins Pontius Pilate killed Jesus had him crucified and buried But in the end Pilate didn’t win Hate never wins Caligula killed for pleasure was...

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March 2, 2015

My Schedule

I wrote this poem last Saturday during a poetry workshop at the Oregon Christian Writers’ 1-day winter conference. The assignment, if you will, was to write a poem similar to one titled “Holiday Concert” by Maryann Corbett. This is what I came up with. And...

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Another Fearless Year

Tag: Love

Risen – An Easter Poem

The Sound and the Silence

Impossible Madness

My Zealous Adonai

A Beautiful Sacrifice

No Dead Poetry Allowed

The Beginnings of a Poem

My Son Shine – Reduction

Hate Never Wins

My Schedule

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Risen – An Easter Poem

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The Sound and the Silence

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