Reflections
The First Stone
Dank and dark and absent moonlit glow Crept through cavern stone walls. Warrior bent on escape driven by terror Robbed…
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Falling Seed
When my siblings and I were still very young, our mother nurtured a robust collection of large tropical house plants.…
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True Conversion
Call it inspiration from some ancient muse The spell was broken on that corner pew As the words of the…
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Civilian Pursuits
“Mind your own business!” So goes the common retort. Typically spoken in moments of heated discussion, childish quarrels, or hot…
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Sulk with Kings
Thoughts fail akin to words as drops add to oceans wide. Dust motes supplant the dirt as grains of sand…
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Without a Shepherd
“What does pliable mean, Daddy?” My youngest daughter asked. “It means to easily bend or be persuaded to do something”…
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Forgave the Forgotten
Stop and listen to the stanza of time chiming on the distant plain. Echoes of mercy mingle with terror remembered…
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Hidden Truth
In the fifty-first chapter of the book of Psalms, we discover a poem expressing a profound statement of timeless wisdom.…
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The Keening
Sunrise calls to our slumbered minds what more said a thousand poems writ. An ode to the dawn countless mystics…
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