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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?!
pride goes before a fall…
15 Jun 2023 1 Comment
in senryu Tags: flag, picnic, president, pride
Indecent behavior should be called out, not celebrated!
prior to flag day,
president flaunts pride banner
white house is disgraced
south lawn public exposure
(not chicken breasts at picnic)
smudge of grace
20 Feb 2023 2 Comments
in senryu Tags: ashes, mortality
ashes to ashes
made from dust, to dust return
yet, we shall be changed!
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Christian observation of Ash Wednesday reminds us of our mortality.
desert blues
07 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
in haiku, senryu Tags: cactus, desert, gulch, rose
in dry gulch texas
cactus rose cantina closed
thirsty owner left
a poem in my pocket 
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