Backward Mutters

  • Day 25: Feasting

    Day 25: Feasting

    The prompt for Day 25’s November Poem a Day Challenge is “feasting.” This sonnet is about the feast at the home of Mary and Martha recorded in Luke 10. I’ve been thinking about Jesus’ parable of the talents in Matthew 25 where Jesus says that to the one who has,…

  • A Nonsense Poem

    A Nonsense Poem

    During the summers of my teen years, I would camp with my youth group at Carolina Hemlocks Campground. Our church’s beloved pastor grew up in the area, and he loved reading a collection of mountain tales collected by Richard Chase, titled, Grandfather Tales. One of the stories that was a…

  • Day 4: Transition

    Day 4: Transition

    (transiens) “passing over or away,” present participle of transire “cross over, go over, pass over, hasten over, pass away,” from trans “across, beyond” (see trans-) + ire “to go” (from PIE root *ei- “to go”). Meaning “passing through a place without staying” I’m catching up a bit on the November…

  • Foggy

    Foggy

    Today’s Poetry Pub prompt for the November Poem a Day Challenge is “foggy.” Since today is the 53rd Anniversary of the Farmington Mining Disaster, I chose to combine the two. Sometimes a poem doesn’t get to where you want it, but because of the moment, you want to say something…

  • Too Many

    Too Many

    Day 16’s prompt is Too Many. I play around a bit with the meaning. Too many” As in there is “also much” And sometimes there are also “few” Of which it might be said there are too. But who Could say that there are too many Things to be thankful…