Tarrying Poems - Poems about Tarrying

Comfort in the Afterglow

...Comfort belies not upfront, where the bright glare blinds,
But in the glowing lingering embers of the afterglow.
In the afterburner of the karaoke sing-along song.
Humming the back-story concoctio...

PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR CHEERING US WITH HIS GOODNESS

...November 22 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 27-28

Key Verse – Acts 27:25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

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in lilac dreams

..."I love the silent hour of night,/ For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight / What may not bless my waking eyes." from first verse of Anne Brontë's "Night"

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A Moment

...Just stop and look around you
something special is happening beside you
Look beyond the valley and the hill and
Nature will digest your will,
The earth is cooling and the water
Is washed back in...

Harvest Time

...In autumn, I came upon a garden of errant souls
And saw several souls sequestered there.
Some were well-known and some were fools,
But others were only tarrying there.
Though the sanguine souls w...

Life

...I still cannot breathe fresh air after tarrying in this place for five long years, I still cannot breath fresh air, my stomach is stiff and the salt is burnt out of the atmosphere, the earth has lost...

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ENABLES US TO RETURN UNTO HIM WITH ALL OUR HEARTS

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March 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 7-10

Key Verse – 1Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hea...

FLOWERED TEACUP IN SPRING

...FLOWERED TEACUP IN SPRING


My heart lies vacant
             to vulnerability, voiding into
                   a warm womb 
                                    of larvic rebirth

 
October ...

See There Marches Orion

...See there marches Orion
   With Sirius close at his feet
Tarrying not long in the air
   To begin the midnight hunt. 

His quickened breath congeals –
   His boots crunch the fallen snow –
His...

August

...A much-anticipated August swoops in,
Unspooling a rather delightful surprise.
Gone; out of a blast furnace, torrid July!
Undulating grace...

Celestial Kites

...Moon so high, awake and beaming in white
Soft cloud smiles, watching the moonlight dancing
Behind the furs, hiding as crystal kite
Bounds in miles, prancing with stars so pleasing.
Winds so cold,...

Lord God, You Are My Good Pursuit-Overtaker

...March 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 29-31

Key Verse –1Samuel 30:8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? An...

I Wait For the Laughter

...Where does laughter go
when it's done?
What becomes of joyful sounds
that are spun?

Do those waves fly off
and tarry somewhere,
to another dimension,
or just hang in midair?

Does that ene...

Adapting

...Peter and I are together and we’re in a grove.
Time is our treasure, precious and dwindling.

I watch for signs of the future unfolding, 
like a twitch that might be the first sign of a stroke.
...

Beyond Reach

...I jumped into the Cosmos
That was calling out my name
I saw a light within reach
A marvel that pulled my soul
To be that part of a whole
My flesh could never reach!
A brilliance so daunting
My...

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