She slips out the screen door–scheeee-bang! Already in the lead, having managed to escape the house The 6 year old…
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Five Minute Fridays – Today’s Prompt…Unexpected UnexpectedHow you come inShining light into all my hopelessnessWas it something I did?Or is…
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She Dances Now Broken, torn, and badly twistedHeld by control, tight-fistedShe ripped herself up from her rootsAnd ran. Never knowing…
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Can you hear your own heart beatingAs you stress upon your bed?Does the sound of the life comingDrown the music…
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i love rising withthe light still bluewhen the Dawn Keeperis stillunlatching the gates.winter morning lightcomes mainly from the ground, andbushes,…
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Are there people on your prayer list that it hurts to pray for? Maybe you’re praying for them because you…
Continue ReadingNo, no, no!
“No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member–No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits,…
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People use sound and tongue all dayCalling to each otherDrawing heart to heartMusic cuts through flesh and thoughtLinking soul to…
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The morns are meeker than they were –The nuts are getting brown –The berry’s cheek is plumper –The Rose is…
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The presentation at the Creation Museum Planetarium has had such an impact on me both times that I have seen…
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Haunted JoyA bigger beadthan ordinaryslipped on my strand today.a simple bead,yet with a glowof peace.The last piece of a patternbegun…
Continue ReadingAwesome article and a poem from my past…
last week I read an awesome post over at YLCF that put into words something I have believed for a…
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I apologize for the lack of depth in my posts lately – life’s barely allowed me to keep up with…
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Mooring If you were far away and I were fartherAnd both of us had tossed upon the sea,I’d be peaceful…
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Speaking of Poetry…
Long before I was putting my inner feelings into poetry, Chris Rice was doing it for me. (Now that I…
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Discovering a love of poetry
My treasures from the books sale in piles on my couch I came into my love of poetry rather late…
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