Mom Spiritual Poems

You look just like your mother my relatives often cry and when they do the words fall upon my ears like knives. 

They say I...

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In the beginning ...," roosts; 
            Christians and Jewish boosts.



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The painter stayed with us for about two months.
He said he wanted to repay our hospitality.
Mom owned an old dresser she kept saying she was...

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After her mother passed a blue butterfly stopped by
Flitted among her zinnias, landed on a yellow one
Rhonda paid attention, it seemed to be important
Was this...

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Juice Ex Machina

By Mark D. Stucky
When wine ran out at the wedding in Cana,
why did Mary request and expect Jesus
(who seemed slightly exasperated)
to act as...

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I was just a kid
You threw the “book” at me
Hellfire, damnation, sinner!!
Repent!!!!
I was too young
To remember “penting”
So how could I do it again??
Purgatory….
“the not quite...

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Sound Check

At five this morning
I opened the drapes
There was a little
Blue bird perched
On the white railing

He did not move
Holding a peanut
While I was singing
Santana

Picturing Santana
As...

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My husband had a childhood friend named Bogey Higgins.
Bogey Higgins was there on a daily basis for him when he was four.
He appeared when his...

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We note the first words infants say
and the words of those on death’s way.
Parting words seem to hold much weight
as we watch souls approach death’s...

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Once upon a time there was a little boy who lived for Christmas.
Each year he would place cookies under the tree for Santa Claus. 
One...

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 "(I carry you with me) where I go you go."

              ...

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Why

You made me know poetry
Learned some
But still illiterate
Uneducated

Reason is to be with most people
To be like them
Bliss is complete happiness
Bliss of morning came

Wanted to write...

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I will have eyes on you from heaven Mom said.
I felt comforted by this, thinking cardinals of red.
Messengers are sent from heaven every day. Right?
Cardinals...

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I wish I had the words to explain how much you to me. Im the person I am today. because you let me be You're...

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Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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