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Stroke

...Somewhere over the mountain, hidden away,
There’s a land that is calling; I must not delay.
Somewhere over the mountain, that’s where she’ll be,
In the alpenglow, Mary's waiting for me.

They sa...

Dionysus Markets Asphodel

...Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.

So many burden...

FAITH IN GOD WHO WARNS US AGAINST TRANSGRESSING HIS WORD

...May 4 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 10-11

Key Verse – 1Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of t...

Purple Dreams In Other Realms

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Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see 
dressed in a fantastical dress with  two dappled wings of lace,     
she shone like the midnight sun; 
I must confess, ...

A Rambling Confession of Faith

...I believe because it makes sense to me, even though I don’t understand.

 It seems so much more reasonable somehow to be part of a bigger plan. 

The infinite complexity, the strangest twist of f...

Threshold

...Cold hospital light 
My footsteps pause at the door. 
Her cries pierce the walls.

Birth's ancient struggle unfolds.
Beyond where fathers may go

Nurses hurry past.
With cryptic glances that ...

Screwtape

...Long forbidding fingers dig deep in,
Appearing black contrast on pale skin,
The puppeteer directs your gaze,
A brief view but the vision stays,
Ruinous renderings plague the brain,
His dark impr...

What is your confidence?

...You may notice someone in power
Wealthy in either financial fortune
Or social freedom, or popularity
That makes you feel inferior to keen

Thereafter, you wonder the reason
Underlying all the d...

In An Instant

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Sometimes my heart breaks
With music that was never played
Epiphanies swell and create
A still that I could never have foreseen,
A wonderful that is beyond soul’s grief
A tenderness that fee...

Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025

...Inspection will NOT take place January 21st, 2025...

but much to my relief, said mandatory inquisition (rather inspection) will take place sixty nine days later (due the math and inform me of any ...

Never Give Up

...Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. –Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States

A year of heartbreak, soundless a...

Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation

...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch

Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games w...

The Days of COVID and Roses 2020

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There once existed, upon this lovely earth.
A people, happy~ not possessed with dearth.
Depravity, destruction of cities, murder by injection,
Became a way of our lives!
Then~ an evil be...

The Cookies

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Bird food bought instead
Of cookies, no dread
Of eating them at tea or 
Snack, I'll make brownies
Ride over the counties
Maybe do fun chores galore

Who am I kidding
Can't do ...

Haunted Woods

...
Behind silvery gray animus clouds, the moon does hide.
The night does cry; its heartbeat rise and falls, like the tide.
Celestial, sleepless, unbending, cold night gathered overhead,
Veiling eer...

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