how does young american male become radicalized to violence?
what effect do lies of extreme rhetoric have on immature minds?
will we unite as fellow citizens or tear down our own country?
american questions
15 Jul 2024 Leave a comment
in american sentence Tags: extremism, rhetoric, unity, violence
mister toad
10 Jul 2024 2 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: eyes, surprise, toad
surprise by stick pile
warty toad with gloss-black eyes
stares…then hops away
summer shower
10 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in free verse, imagism Tags: downpour, maple tree, petrichor, rain, sticks, summer, wind
backyard maple tree
washes her leafy head
in morning downpour
then towels long hair
to dry in afternoon’s
prairie wind until the
fresh evening petrichor
beckons me outdoors
to pick up fallen sticks;
loose hairs shed after
miss maple’s shampoo.
for sarah
09 Jul 2024 13 Comments
From ‘Apple’ by Sarah Connor:
“There is a wholesomeness to apples:
the white flesh crisp, fine-grained,
the sweet, sharp scent. The skin.”
remember…
the soft flesh of her skin
fine-grained and oh so white;
breathe in sharply such crisp
wholesomeness: the sweet
appled scent of a woman
From ‘No mail – no post’ by Sarah Connor:
“No words.
No rhymes, no poeming tonight,
just this blank space,
this white page,
stretching endlessly”
poet’s legacy
will old blogs stretch
into blank white space?
No! corvid words live on
endlessly…in books,
rhymes of poems and
even tonight’s posts,
like letters mailed
lovingly to the future!
Linking to dVerse as a tribute to our fellow poet, Sarah Connor. Thanks to Kim for her interview/conversation with Sarah posted tonight! And may God be near you and your family, Sarah.
porch pillars
05 Jul 2024 8 Comments
in free verse Tags: dissimilar, marriage, mismatched, pillars, porch, roof, vows
he avoids work on two pillars
of our front porch: mismatched,
slightly noticeable but definitely
different…manufacturer sent
him an alternate color which
was not apparent until installed
and now considered permanent.
it’s like marriage of two people,
pillars of the family: mismatched,
probably noticeable, and definitely
different…manufacturer (GOD)
sent provisional individual but all
was not apparent until installed
and now considered permanent.
perhaps that was designer’s plan
and purpose: opposite pillars stay
where they are as He works on
them; two who vowed to stand
by each other, both a bit offbeat.
even though the effect is dissimilar,
together they can hold up the roof.
iowa in july
02 Jul 2024 2 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: cows, fireflies, hollyhocks, iowa, July, summer
glimpsed thru evergreen
summer blushes crimson red
neighbor’s hollyhocks
cornfields of faeries
follow grandchildren’s ball games
fireflies shine at night
angus cows with calves
graze in heavenly pastures
sweet ruminations
not surprising
28 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in american sentence Tags: pagan, sage, spiritual, superstitious
… that pagan, yet spiritual, minds become superstitious in the end.
– after listening to “White Horse Inn” podcast discussion of Michael Horton’s book, Shaman and Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual But Not Religious” in Antiquity
inundated
27 Jun 2024 9 Comments
in tanka Tags: disaster, flood, rain, volunteers, water
mucky floodwater
rain brings too much of good thing
overwhelming force
strikes levees, homes, bridges, schools
volunteers come, help clean up
luminescence
22 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: fireflies, flash, hope, prayers
fireflies like prayers
flashes of hopefulness rise…
yet full moon outshines
faith in motion
18 Jun 2024 25 Comments
life’s locomotive rumbles down track
with muscled horsepower multiplied
once it leaves station, cannot turn back
so one must trust train is well-supplied.
who is the engineer guiding this train?
he’s the one who knows the destination
he stays at throttle through sunshine-rain
brings it safely through line’s every station.
i know the conductor, he’s engineer’s son,
my worn ticket he will stamp and receive
i’ll travel with him till my journey is done;
holy faith-powered…you too can believe!
At dVerse poets’ pub, Punam invites us to travel by train. My oldest son worked as a train engineer and gave us this framed print which hangs in our home. “Santa Fe” is translated “holy faith”.
haik-coo
13 Jun 2024 2 Comments
in haiku Tags: birdbath, finch, praise, robin, sing, turtledoves
pair of turtledoves
coo-cooing from tree and roof
to welcome us home
algae in birdbath
orange oriole takes sips
disturbed reflection
sing praise at day’s end
robins echo each other
my heart joins chorus
cavernous musings
11 Jun 2024 18 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: bat, cavern, magma, stalactites, stalagmites, troll, twilight
Dora at dVerse suggests we explore liminal spaces…
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.” -William Blake
shadows, jagged and toothy
hang from limestone gums
as sharp stalagmites reach
up from dark jaws of chaos.what hideousness in pit of
earth’s bowels? a creature
vicious as vampire bat or
loathsome as cave troll?dare strap on headlamp
to crawl through dampest
fears? discover passage
into fiery lake of magma?only blind fish and dank
bacteria can exist in space
lost to the conscious world,
bathed in eternal twilight.
a poem in my pocket 
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