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Category Archives: Poetry
Condemned Alleys Fading Stars
Originally posted on Recollections At Fall:
On rare pensive moments when one contemplates on the vagaries of human existence Fleeting thoughts and images flash with persistence You stop the car at the traffic lights an emaciated maimed hand knocks at…
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged blogging, comfort, compassion, Featured Blogger, humanity, India, poverty, suffering
11 Comments
Please Don’t Eat the Ribbons!
Am I the only one whose little cat thinks each bit of Christmas ribbon is a strand of pasta? Then, discovering it’s actually nasty and terribly vile, hurls it up in tidy little piles of cheery, multicolored Christmas bile? With … Continue reading
Life Is a Sandwich
It was soft below us and easy to chew Twill be soft above us when we get through But right now we’re trapped in the middle, and wham! We find ourselves suddenly stuck in the jam Still, the art of … Continue reading
A Mother’s Plea
My Featured Blogger this week is an African writer whose blog site is entitled Copious Morsels of Everything, but whose name I don’t know. Her birthplace appears to be Zimbabwe (she refers to it in at least one poem). So … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Writing
Tagged Africa, blogger, blogging, featured, motherhood, poignant, South Africa, Zimbabwe
6 Comments
October Madness
Election fever Tempers boiling People screaming Our world on the brink of survival And then there’s this… “You’re welcome.” ~God “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ~L.M. Montgomery
Look for the Crack
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ~Shel Silverstein “Hold fast to dreams, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 2020, Covid-19, dreams, future, hope, Langston Hughes, Leonard Cohen, wings
31 Comments
Hole
Originally posted on The Stories In Between:
I wasn’t quite dead But you buried Me anyway It wasn’t much Of a ceremony But what Did I expect I wish this hole Was deeper Because I can still Hear your voice…
Sometimes your eyes….
Originally posted on KiA's Notions😊:
Sometimes you confuse me too Sometimes there’s a fiery glint in your eyes Makes you look frightening Like you could be dangerous with a sword I feel like I should run To the ends…
Posted in Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged blogger, blogging, featured, love, thoughtful, Uganda, woman
4 Comments
Just Ask Creation
“Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged creation, e.e. cummings, George Washington Carver, God, nature, Romans 1:20
16 Comments