ashes to ashes
accept own mortality
from dust back to dust
human life is fragile when
disease or disaster strikes
temporal
23 Feb 2026 2 Comments
in Uncategorized, senryu Tags: ashes, death, dust, mortality
iguana culture
20 Feb 2026 Leave a comment
in senryu Tags: ashes, comatose, death, eden, iguana, sin, torpor, tree
comatose to sin
Credit: Freepik, kuritafsheen77
trapped in cold death-like torpor
reptilian claws
aggressive if awakened
fallen out of eden’s tree
sin’s web
04 Jan 2026 Leave a comment
in senryu
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“to err is human”
we’re easily entangled
one mistake…ruin.
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“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
ultimate kintsugi
02 Aug 2025 6 Comments
in haiku, senryu Tags: broken, gold, healing, kintsugi, pottery
broken, not ruined
God binds our wounds together
life’s cracks heal, gleam gold
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Inspired by japanese pottery and Dawn Minott’s blogpost here…
in the stillness
13 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in senryu Tags: loneliness, solitude, stillness
. . .
spending time alone:
loneliness empties us but
solitude can fill
. . .
beast of burden
04 May 2025 2 Comments
in senryu Tags: bitterness, bones, burden
he carries his old
bitterness in bag of bones
hollow steps heavy
distracted to death?
11 Apr 2025 6 Comments
in senryu Tags: distraction, God, hell, redemption, thirst
too busy for God
past moment of redemption
forever thirsty
Linking to The Lent Project which includes a powerful poem by Billy Collins…
mirrored image
05 Jan 2025 2 Comments
in senryu, tanka Tags: art, chiaroscuro, girl, light, pearl, Vermeer
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art’s epiphany—
all light is borrowed from God
to reflect glory!
in chiaroscuro contrast—
we’re shadowed, yet drawn to light
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Idea of “borrowed light” taken from book I’m reading, Rembrandt is in the Wind, by Russ Ramsey.
(im)mortality
15 Dec 2024 2 Comments
in senryu Tags: death, doorway, grave, immortality
“When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: Death has been swallowed up in victory.” (I Cor. 15:54)
stand by open grave
hear hallelujah chorus
death’s narrow doorway
caution
30 Dec 2023 5 Comments
in senryu Tags: caution, flirt, wink
she learned the hard way
that a wink should never be
given unintentionally
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A weekend writing prompt at Sammi Scribbles…13 words, include “wink” 😉
aftermath…part 2
14 Jul 2023 3 Comments
in senryu Tags: birch, die, husband
one of two birch fell
husband says we will die too
so…who will go first?!
a poem in my pocket 
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