posting poetic prose
09 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
today (and everyday)
you are the master Potter;
i am wet malleable clay
form and fire me into
your image, as a vessel
both beautiful and useful
like porcelain pitcher
and wash basin, to cheer
and refresh weary travelers
to shine, elegantly off-white
(my basin be slightly crackled)
fill this pitcher with holy water
lovely and ready on wash-
stand, eager to humbly serve
dusty people where needed
23 Feb 2026 13 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: bread, food, gratitude, hunger, injustice
hollow, hungry people find food
scarce but reasons plentiful: drought,
pests, war, unemployment, injustice.
satisfied, well-fed folks find food
plentiful but gratitude scarce:
gluttons of greed, stingy to share.
aren’t we all famished for
the bread of heaven himself
to come fill us… more abundantly?
Gathering at dVerse poets pub where Lisa hosts hungry quadrilles…
23 Feb 2026 2 Comments
in senryu, Uncategorized Tags: ashes, death, dust, mortality
ashes to ashes
accept own mortality
from dust back to dust
human life is fragile when
disease or disaster strikes
18 Feb 2026 13 Comments
dawn’s existential
questions ask me:
what am i good at?
and what do i love?
i love my husband;
his hands, his habits
committed promise
to live life together
(companionship with
mutual understanding
that most differences
aren’t worth a fight)
i have need to write,
feel compelled to,
fulfilled by it…you
may say i’m good at
poetry is universal
language; to bask in
bare beauty of words
is to love like a nerd
prayer as life breath;
God is always near
whether or not i can
feel (or love) Him
Jesus seems easier to
love, harder to obey…
but “we love because
he first loved us” yes!
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Quote from 1 John 4:19. Written in response to journal prompt/pic by Dawn at:
https://enthusiasticallydawn.com/2026/02/15/all-the-love-journal-prompts-week-3
Also check out dVerse poets where Sanaa hosts “The Evolution of Love”.
04 Feb 2026 19 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: dental floss, love, pearls, sheep, simile, smile, teeth
We’re smiling at dVerse where Dora hosts Poetics and serves similes…
(credit: AI image from adobe.com)
a smile is like a sweet simile
to what can it be compared?
much more than simply
an upside down frown or a
show-off row of perfect pearls
like Solomon’s ewes with twins,
Shakespeare’s half-murderous grin,
or Carroll’s elusive cat (doth scat)
my love’s desire is to coax yours,
your smile my wit’s reward as our
hearts entwine like dental floss
to what can poetry be compared?
aye, a simile is like your sweet smile!
13 Jan 2026 22 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: baptism, chaplain, church, cornerstone, prison, walls
make one bad decision
or follow foolish friends
and train ride ends with
[ time inside the walls ]
hyper little boy in glasses
grew to be prison chaplain
found his niche ministering
[ to guys inside the walls ]
they have watched men die
but won’t cry except when
another sinner is baptized;
[ set free inside the walls ]
we’ve been taken through
frisked before entering gate
blessed to worship too with
[ church inside the walls ]
Melissa hosts poetics at the pub with Johnny Cash singing his Folsom Prison Blues…
12 Jan 2026 18 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: camping, eyes, love, miles, smile, time, vista, wonder
“Time goes faster the older you get”
i realize it’s true, especially the good times
meandering multiplied (s)miles,
you and i on camping road trips;
every curve reveals
another vista of love’s wonder upon
bespectaculared smiling blue eyes,
mirror pools of creation’s beauty.
Quadrilles and smiles with De and dVerse poets today 🙂
09 Dec 2025 13 Comments
our friendship, not hemmed in
by time or location, offers ample
ease for plenty of free movement.
we started on school bus, bobbin’
as fresh-facing kindergarteners;
as middle schoolers, we darted
on bicycles to local pharmacy,
spacious park or shopping mall
to gather summer memories. in
high school and college, took
backstitch or two along the way,
but eventually stood witness as
each took vows binding ourselves
to husbands (promises we’ve kept).
an old favorite friendship that can
stretch seamlessly across the years
and distance; comfortable and warm
as a patchwork quilt; hearts appliqued
with sisterly love, lined with laughter,
covered with grace-patterned shalom.
For my dear friend, Joyce ❤
Joining with dVerse Poets to “sew” some poetry together!
23 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: hope, light
alone in the dark
waiting and watching with hope
God’s kingdom coming!
Spirit is deposit of
amazing inheritance.
_____________
From today’s sermon by Pastor John Lee on Micah 7…when the darkness is deep, we look for the Light!
08 Oct 2025 17 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: autumn, fall, geese, harvest, leaves, moon
music of mysterious season
every extra-ordinary evening
when fall’s awe-calling and
autumn’s beat thrum-drums.
dry cornstalks quiver in crisp
whispers of sweater weather as
honky geese migrate late, and
de-fruited trees leave with a sigh.
orange pumpkin planets shimmer
eerily in phantom-tastical gleams
of the ghostly harvest moon-beams
that pierce clouds’ flimsy shroud.
Join dVerse Poets where Dora invites us to “trip the October light fantastic.”
10 Sep 2025 8 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: attic, dead, memories, mouse, pettiness, pillow, pride, soul
Melissa challenges dVerse poets to write to a quote from one of Leo Tostoy’s books…
ancient dust thickly lies…
obscures discarded objects
personal mysteries unsolved
hidden in dark attic of soul
what is this discovery?!
favorite forgotten pillow
stuffing needs fluffing…
still choke on puffed pride
look in that corner box
something small, hidden
away…yuck! dead mouse
of musty, moldy pettiness
keep cherished photographs
of loved ones’ kindness but
let dirty dogged memories
lie sleeping and undisturbed
_______
(alternative title: pride & pettiness, but that’s another author)
09 Aug 2025 2 Comments
real presence of God
joy of knowing Jesus’ love
new life in Spirit
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