This park bench. This sunny sky. This pond overlook. This Thursday of holiness. This escape from work. This unsuccessful escape from worry. This break from job description reading. This pause in phantom interview taking. This poem reminding me I have a job. This booklet begging to be filled. This mind full of concern. This soul bereft of friendship. This theology challenged by crucifixion. This humility … Continue reading This Day
A man wrecks his car looking at a rainbow…still finds a pot of gold. Not the kind that princes seek glistening in the Columbian sunshine, but the kind that builds up in bus station corners, lines up for government cheese, piles up on the lower rungs of recovery. This, after the insurance company said “No, rainbows are not an act of God”. [Noah, bleary-eyed, snickers … Continue reading Drive By Poetry
Hometown pariah You’re gonna get ostracized and kicked out again. Continue reading Itinerant Haiku
Anointing the blessed struggle- Mary knows Continue reading Lectionary Haikus: John 12
Souls, safety, sanity Not all losses are the same- Coins are not children Continue reading Lectionary Haiku: Luke 15
Take heed the story of the older son With work and sweat and thankless servanthood To watch his Father take off on a run and wrap his arms around a heart of wood. With scabs of faithfulness upon his brow and blisters where the ring’s supposed to be He watches with his hand still on the plow As Jacob falls upon their Father’s knee What’s … Continue reading Sonnet: The Prodigal Son’s Older Brother
Kitty in window Oversees lovers at play Blissfully unfree · September cricket Sings a dusky requiem- Rests as cars roar by — That crooked tree must be balancing out the rest of the earth. For she is bent in a gnarly shape, superficially ugly, with patches of green leaves ready to die. Bending shoots of dead branches testify to the sickness within. She is innocent-no … Continue reading POETRY: Kitties, Crickets and Crooked Branches
“Letters to a Young Poet” is authored by Rainer Maria Rilke (bio). They were inspired by correspondence with Franz Xaver Kappus, an admirer and aspiring poet. The 10 letters are Rilke’s replies to Kappus’ inquiries and writings. As a whole, the letters are philosophical, initially revealing Rilke’s approach to writing, later his embrace of a life of “aloneness”. Rilke is extraordinarily appreciative of Kappus’ and … Continue reading About a Book I Recently Finished: “Letters to a Young Poet”
Reaching out to touch your bare knee- A Sabbath Continue reading Dog Days of Haiku-05
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