Backward Mutters

  • Someday

    Someday

    I have wedding on the brain as our eldest is getting married this weekend. In this poem, I imagine both the experience of my wife and my daughter who may one day be sitting in the seat of her mother and what that may be like for her. One day…

  • Submission Could Ever Be

    Because of abuse, there is justified concern about teaching on the subject of submission as it relates to the Christian life and Christian marriage. Submission as I understand it, is a gift even as it is a discipline. In times of trouble when pain and confusion overwhelm, submission is a gift.…

  • A Bond Greater

    A Bond Greater

    for Lucy Higgs Nichols. I came across the story of Lucy Nichols while doing genealogy research on family who lived in New Albany, Indiana. My Great-Great-Great-Great Uncle Andrew served in the 66th Indiana Infantry and worked following the war to establish the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) in Indiana. I stumbled…

  • Do I Wanna Become a Soundcloud Superstar?

    I’ve created a new sub-genre of poetry, I think, and I’m calling it a rage roundel. This rage roundel has to do with the spam bot issue over at soundcloud. (Bless their hearts, I know they’re trying). A Soundcloud Superstar is all I want to be! It doesn’t matter whether…

  • Greater Than Our Hearts

    Greater Than Our Hearts

    Here is another sonnet from the series on passages from 1John. The sonnet itself is based on 1John 3:11-24 but the title comes from 1John 3:19-20. You can listen to sonnet being read via Soundcloud below. 19 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure…