Category: poetry
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The Seed
Like seed broadcast by a sower’s throw Are the words which poets scatter around, And those words, now dormant, will only grow When received by ears which hear and re-sound Their meaning, the wonder, through turn of phrase, By rhyme and cadence, the incantation Which breaks through as one freed…
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Legion
This sonnet is based on the following passages which tell of the healing of the Gerasene demoniac from Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39, and Matthew 8:28-34. Jesus, having delivered the disciples from the terror of the night storm, arrives on the other side of the Sea of Galilee and is confronted…
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Waking to Our Fear
This sonnet is based on Mark 4:35-41 when the disciples and Jesus cross the Sea of Galilee and are caught in a storm. What I imagine confounds the disciples, is that even though he delivers the disciples from the storm he seems indifferent to the threat (these sorts of storms happened…
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Suddenly He Comes
Rise and shine, campers, the Lord has suddenly come to his Temple! February 2 is Candlemas and is the fortieth day after the church celebrates the birth of Jesus. The event is recorded in Luke 2:22-38, and recounts when Jesus was presented at the Temple in Jerusalem and his parents…
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Robert Burns Day 2019
Friends of mine hosted a Robert Burns Night in their home on January 25 in which they served a traditional Scottish dinner with rumbledethumps and bannock and of course the main dish, haggis, which is not actually authentic haggis (because traditional haggis is banned in the United States by the USDA) but…
Backward Mutters 