Dawn
...
My love awakens me
with playful purrs,
with kitty licks
and padded paws --
we are never far
from our primitives,
to know the world by
touch, and God through
tactile mystery, repli...
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Categories:
theologize, cute, desire, emotions, good
Form: Free verse
Then and Now
...Once there was a time (of course, not so long),
I was, in body and mind, not so strong;
Any death, as though it's my own, scared me,
Mishaps and blood I couldn't dare to see...!
Then, when I sa...
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Categories:
theologize, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
...I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
h...
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Categories:
theologize, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
The Soul Musician
...I was gratefully listening
to a theologian musician
repeat a rabbinic tradition
of four levels of resonant soul:
individual (egosystemic),
communal (local),
social (cultural, national identity)...
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Categories:
theologize, community, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
Upon the Cross
...Upon the Cross
I look with my eternal eyes
No longer bound in human guise
A voice echoes across the skies
That's calling to immortalize
The spirit left by my demise
Without reason to apologiz...
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Categories:
theologize, father, history, religion
Form: Monorhyme