Category: poetry
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My Alabaster Heart
based on: John 12:1-3 which reads: “Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary…
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Glory Gave Up
This the fourth is series of sonnet meditations on the season of Lent. In it I am considering the glory of God which St Paul says we fell short of in Romans 3. Humanity’s glory shines greatest in the earth In beauty like the flowers, in strength strong as stone;…
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I Saw a Crocus
“A man really ought to say, ‘The Resurrection happened two thousand years ago’ in the same spirit in which he says, ‘I saw a crocus yesterday.’ Because we know what is coming behind the crocus.” ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock I saw a crocus yesterday The purple petals…
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Such Largess is Spread
Sometimes the deceit that the large life is the only life worth having or living is adopted as the truth. It is its own form of self-righteousness — a self-justifying work. However, much of what is noble, treasured, and valuable is not the the large but the small. And it…
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Diamonds of Wonder
I found this little gem in a parking lot while walking to work. There’s beauty all around. While walking to work in winter’s cold bite To do the things that ever must be done Futile it seemed to fight the good fight I feared no blessing, no victory would be…
Backward Mutters 