“So, what did he say?Brother! What did he say?”No answer; only an empty stare fromtransfixed eyes, through a sealedwindow, streaked by desperate fingersthrough fog of wet hot breath.Your head lists like a sinking ship.I feel titillating waves of risingwater, its cold hands slowly crawlingever higher on my back, whilebodies desperate, splash around us.Vehicles eerily floatContinue reading “Broken Bridge”
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Resolute
I live the unending questfor purpose in my life,The more years that go by,The more earnest the pursuit,But my growing wisdomteaches me the search is futile,Like the source of the wind;It is unfindable. Yet, I continue like the albatross,As hope picks me upand sends me on my way,Escorted by the Holy Spirit,Beyond waning disappointment,Past theContinue reading “Resolute”
Night of Visages
The Ballerina Black eyes stared from the darkness,Slowly, almost imperceptibly,She emerged as her shaking handsstretched toward me, an invitationto meet halfway. A strange calm cameupon us as our fingertips touched.Smiling broadly, her throat was deepand dark like her black eyes.A ballerina’s red tulle of nainsookfloated at her hips. A single shake,A slight rustle invited meContinue reading “Night of Visages”
Ice Block
Dimming Firelight
A gift of red heat dozing,A waterfall from eyes closing,Images of light disappear,Their passionate grip once dear. Gray memories behind me leave,Their testimony but a tease,Destined together we were,Entwined in a twirling blur. Honey toned sirens declare,From tangled weeds full flared,Songs erased by their thirst,My heart from bosom to burst. Spoken stories eternal beware,My libraryContinue reading “Dimming Firelight”
Imaginary Woman
Bring your face a little closer,Let me whisper in your ears,Feel the soft rain falling,Trace your fingers through my tears. Because my love is still growing,My dream laughs loudly at me,Your smell, intoxicating,My joyful tears, love’s guarantee. Hurricanes blow meekly away,Phantoms bow down upon sight,Of us like children playing,Let’s celebrate our love tonight. For soonContinue reading “Imaginary Woman”
New Heavens and A New Earth
As your people cry and children wail,Of hunger, death, and life’s dark tales,For their rescue now, we ask you go,Relieve their storms of grief and woe. Protect them in the midst of war,Shield them from foul nature’s roar,If thirst or illness test their faith,Give them hope in spirit safe. We lift them up in thankfulContinue reading “New Heavens and A New Earth”
Looking for Winter
The autumn breeze stirs fields of green,To sustain her mournful soul,Celestial globe to winter leans,Cross farms of harvest bowls. Her calls echo the mountain range,Ice crystal’s morning view,From frosted pairs of windowpanes,Stare ponds of her eyes blue. The cold slips in with freeze in tow,Its silence soon numbs the mind,Her dreams of distant memories slow,InContinue reading “Looking for Winter”
Halloween 2025
Black thumbed smudges smear the sky, asConical crowned witches’ stick-ponies fly by,A harvest moon’s night of treachery. Pumpkin bombs Fall, green, brown, and blue,Splashing stinky blobs of sticky goo,Night’s trick-or-treat grotesquerie. Costumed kids fight into the night,Their slingshot rockets take to flight,Shouting “arrrrgh” in joyful revelry. Spike tipped nails shoot rays of red,To send theContinue reading “Halloween 2025”
Firsts
She remembered the first timeshe went to church without him;the bowed heads of sympathetic sorrow,her gratitude for whispered prayers.She remembered the first timeshe went to bed without him, cold sheets,shadows, darkness filled with loneliness.She remembered the momenther intense pain moved from her headto her heart, and seeped intothe permanency of her soul.Then God met herContinue reading “Firsts”
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