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Your Strong Love
This poem is based on Psalm 119:33-48. Psalm 119 is an acrostic poem with the eight lines of each twenty-two verse section beginning with the same Hebrew letter and continuing through the Hebrew alphabet. For the writer, the form limits both the vocabulary and gives a shape to the poem…
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Grace Gives
This sonnet is based on Psalm 119:17-32. I draw the theme of grace from the first line, “deal bountifully with me.” Not an expression or word we use much in conversation, “bounty” is the gift received before the previous gift is expended; it is an overflow. How does one receive…
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That Guy
On a recent vacation I road shotgun on the ride down and back. On that trip I came to realize that I had become “that guy.” Sweet Corn 1 Mile, Warning: Crossing Deer, Wooden bowls, Boiled Peanuts Ahead, Shallotte, Boiling Springs, and Cape Fear, Lake Time Vintiques, The Attic, Grandma’s…
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Blessed, So Blessed
I am working on a series of poems based on Psalm 119. The longest psalm and the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119 is an acrostic poem. There are twenty-two, eight verse sections in which the words of each section begin with the same Hebrew letter. The form is…
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The Blessed Becomes the Tree
This sonnet is first in a series about Psalm 119. This sonnet based on Psalm 1. Blessed is the man who does not listen Or seek the so called wisdom of those who Steal and monetize the spoils of division, Squeeze out a profit by undoing good. Blessed is he…
Backward Mutters 