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Job’s Ending
Today’s is the last day for the November Poem a Day Challenge. Day 30’s prompt is appropriately, Endings. I use it to wrap up a series of poems I’ve written over the past two months which have drawn their inspiration from the book of Job. This poems is based on…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
Backward Mutters 