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On the Third Day
This poem is the second in a series of poems for Advent entitled, Where Are You? This sonnet is an imaginative re-telling of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22. The words of Genesis 22:3-4 are the verses which captured my imagination. They read, 3 So Abraham rose early in the…
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Where Are You?
This weekend Grace Presbyterian Church is hosting an art exhibit for Advent which will feature portraiture, pyrography and music. If you’re in the area, please stop by to take it in. Pieces will be installed each week and will walk us towards, Bethlehem and the Nativity. Here’s the flyer for…
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Nickabrik
First of all this is a sonnet for me. It is about the dwarfish in me that is like Nickabrik, who appears in C.S. Lewis’ Prince Caspian. Nickabrik resented both the Telmarines’ oppression and the help which Aslan sends in the children and in Prince Caspian. Nickabrik longed for days gone…
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King of Peace
In the United States this weekend is full of holidays (or holy-days), and though they vary in degree of holiness, they all bear the marks of hope, devotion, promise, and of blessing or cursing. Black Friday marks the inauguration of the holiday shopping season, and with its sales and special…
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A Great High Priest
This poem is based on Hebrews 4:14-5:6. If it is helpful you may listen to me read the poem via the player below. There is nothing he has not gone through Traversed the birth canal from mother’s womb Gestating forty weeks, he broke into His creation, lived life unto, dying,…
Backward Mutters 