Christian Husband Poems

Your skin glows like a peach blossom, 
Delicious is the smell of the Black Lotus Flower,
In the purest hope of spring's essences.

My yearning rises to...

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The Space Heater

I am sitting on the porch
watching the birds at the feeder
my husband just filled. 
He is a sweetheart, 
and I am blessed.

I was...

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The husband and father needed today,
Guided by the Pillar of Fire by night, and Cloud by day.

His Chief Shepherd the Lord, provider of house and...

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equivalent
  but different
in design

complementary
  notwithstanding
the patriarchal mind...

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It’s never been about the hint of color
Blushing just beneath his sapphire eyes
It’s never been about the way he laughs,
The kindness that abides in his...

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*** This Painting I Do ***
                   ...

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His knowledge was his untapped wellspring,
After 93 years of learning anew;
He valued knowing something about everything, 
From construction & farming, to baseball & screws. 

Early...

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In Flight ***      


Husband, on alert
   To any change in my every breath —
My darling, my caretaker, so
...

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Devotion Poem Time 
 (in the Series for Jim)

We have been blessed
To make a thick book
Of calendar pages —
A long past to now —
With our...

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The Waiting Room 

I can not think straight, 
and the crooked thoughts
that invade my heart...
tear it slowly to pieces. 

Grief, 
a drop of pain that...

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Devotion Poem, Like Snow Leopards

(Written for Jim Eslinger)

Out on one of the Great Plains of Yahweh, It seems
You may have gone on a hunt, or...

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Devotion Poem Seven, The Unknowing

(Written for Jim Eslinger, as I face complex surgery)


The difficult coming days shall combine
Into a memory of run hours.
And the hours...

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Coronavirus microbe (COVID-19)

(alternately titled: yours truly doth mutter
asthma bowled dug gutter 
pin yon hated chap strikingly and gently weeps, 
whereby melts milquetoast like butter.)

Aye reckon...

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Real Men

Bigger than life, 
the man I married, 
is/was everything and more, 
I thought before, 
I said I do. 

He took care of his family,...

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I’m a good woman, beautiful
I know my worth
I deserve a  man  who is good for me
Not a narsusis who don’t care about who...

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