Long Neediness Poems

For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its...

Read More

HOPE BY N3
Slashed at the throat a blow aimed not at the esophagus but at the vocal cords
Paralyzed by something worst than fear,
Speech grows limp even as silent screams are constrained by shame’s chord.
Tethered like...

Read More

His love silences the lonely
In a moment of insecurity, his love
Promises to hold me
When the darkness whispers
My name, 
His love expresses the beautiful
In shimmering stars, a moon
Flowing with dreams, 
His love remembers to be with...

Read More

Since you asked me directly,

I can tell you about it, only indirectly.
The weeks and months and years
now that it happened,
and still happens from time to time 
when I am really paying attention and ready
to play.

It's...

Read More

Reminded that God sees me groaning in pain
Whenever I languish in gloom, and in misery remain
Earnestly hoping for His miracle to gain...
Now, I triumph in Him* for working in me around His love’s domain
…Since before,...

Read More

I've been a bit free with the vitriol with a couple of poems recently, and need to check myself.  Some months ago I met a bard, Kevan Manwaring.  In his book, the Bardic...

Read More

Strong exercise of your brain take,
The stronger money you can make,
Weak exercise cause money to shake.

Proper physical exercise increase your health,
Proper mental exercise increqse your wealth,
Laziness decrease both health and wealth.

True learning fear usually dissapear,
Passion...

Read More

AT THE NEON OF NIGHT

That night closed when the café did
With all the secrets a star once hid
There was the whisper of a woman’s woe
And a man with nowhere else to go

Two souls shunning the...

Read More

How do you feel…
... knowing that God sees you groaning in pain
whenever you languish in gloom, and in misery remain
earnestly hoping for His miracle to gain???
     Well, you can triumph in...

Read More

December 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Hebrews 11-13

Key Verse – Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly...

Read More

We were born as one of eight,
As always said last in first out,
Some of us unfortunately late,
To be found out what this is all about.

Through as seed to eyes wide,
Reflections of our guardians past,
Our lifes...

Read More

January 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Genesis 18-20

Key Verse – Genesis 18:33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham…

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR COMMUNING WITH ME

Thank You...

Read More

(This a new Version created using many editing suggestions from Linda:) 

I picked you up
like a “shiny” newly minted copper penny 
it was your kitten fur voice 
O how you would hate that...
the avocado texture...

Read More

a quickening naught I entered a forbidden space
just by stepping off the monorail 
he'd beckoned my soul beneath thee garments 
of my flesh eagerly I danced to the sultriness 

of his willingness to explore mirth...

Read More

I picked you up like a “shiny”…newly minted copper penny 
(How cliché)
it was your kitten fur voice  (O how you would hate that) 
the avocado texture 
with which …no matter what wild wicked hour...

Read More

I fell on my knees
Laid my face in my palms
Tears streamed down my cheeks
Worry had a hold of my heart
Nothing seemed to bring peace
And I couldn’t find any relief

“God, please help me”
The only words I...

Read More

Smokey hillside, offers flavors 
of privacy bared open.
Reading like futuristic three, 
maybe fourth dimensional sign 
that says "open".
The neighbors business blabbed
all around by "Miss social, "the "original", organic-loving and down to earth hippie.
She corrals Betty's...

Read More

The Urban Blight.      
     
I returned tired from an outing.      
Everything was around uneasily, misery, and exceeding.    ...

Read More

February 25 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Samuel 5-8

Key Verse – 1Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them…

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVING HAND UPON ME  

Thank You for...

Read More

—wThis Thing Called Aging



1All day, no, far more nearly for 2 years,
I have been thinking I have had
Enough of being old, being
Pleasant about this form of present:
I have had enough of this aging task.
I wish...

Read More

Without solid footing, idealism is a dream
From a position of strong sociopolitical reality
Words kill idealism without a scheme
Idealists deem the short-term triviality.

The ideal balance between man and nature
A serene scene of transcendence unfolds
Driftless area, spawning...

Read More

March 9 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Samuel 19-21

Key Verse – 2Samuel 19:33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

MY GOD, THANK YOU...

Read More

July 21 Scripture Meditations Based on Isaiah 36-39

Key Verse – Isaiah 38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen...

Read More

COLLISION AND DIVISION 

Oftentimes when two worlds collide love blooms from the burst
And good grows from the seeds of the worst 
But sometimes when those same two worlds collide
It’s because one was honest but the...

Read More

A paper and a pen 
I need a few to tell stories of my pain 
Not of what has passed 
But of that which is to come 
If this isn’t a curse tell me what...

Read More