Life Wash Poems

i pivot between
the unknown, and i know not what

life has left me dangling
from my mind

uncertainty mocks
my every foothold

reality teases me
then shrugs off its own beliefs

I...

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"May all the tears I have sadly wept this past
decade ... water the seeds I plant for tomorrow."

      ...

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I have trained my whole adulthood for the challenge of this day. 
The toil and sweat and sacrifice, the monotony of drill, 
All those years...

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*Fiction, inspired by a photo

The old man sat on the bench, 
Holding only his coat and cup of water in his hand
He had given away...

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Having nightmares, working from home?
Or being bolted inside four walls for days
Catch up on reading, fiction and writing 
Pick your authors and gulp them down

Catch...

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I scrub and scrub,
trying to erase stains gravelled upon my face.

Age has defined its mark,
solidified a presence in folds and furrows
raked over a once-smooth fabric...

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When breakfast was almost ready,                    ...

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Chorus

Faith really can move mountains
Faith really can move mountains
Faith really can move mountains ***

Verse one

Faith really can move mountains
(But only our Savior and Lord,
Can set...

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"What can wash away our sins? 
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make us clean within?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Oh precious is the...

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Wash me
Father wash the water;
O’ God, my Lord wash the water;
Make it pure…
Father wash dip your spirit in it;
Immersible tides and cleanse it;(don't hide)
Wash clean
Saturate...

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Smoke glaze of Crayola pink
salmons through foamy Colgate 
spat from mouth 
to porcelain sink in the washroom 
nearest the bedroom overslept in this morning.

To look...

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Lord I am a sinner
And you grace has supplied
Gives me another chance for eternal life

Jesus I ask of you and the Father
Father God forgive me
Of,...

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We heard the wailing 
Sounding from the southern side
Stiffening us to attention
As it echoes
 throughout the land
giving us a bile filled taste 
as we listened...

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My thoughts are laundered,
       all soaped up and soaking;
  cold and hot water rushed
    ...

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beaming bleached grins of ivory predation
touching the tip of the steel heart severing love
eyeless lipless and formless feeling all life
forms wrinkled impulses warring like sexes
seeking...

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