deluge

 

Maybe God cries 

big tears of sadness

when grey skies rain,

grieving over evil in 

the world muddied by

our prideful rebellion.

 

His beloved children

deceived by the

enemy in snakeskin,

swiftly ushering in

disease and death

spoiling paradise,

stealing happiness.

 

God cries with us 

in our suffering,

pain, regret, loss.

Our Father’s tears

mingle with our own

to bring release

and comfort for our

souls’ grey sorrows.

 

Yet weather’s tears

cannot clean

the dark stains 

of hands and hearts

steeped in sin.

Only the pure blood

of His Son, our brother,

can wash all guilt away

in flood of grace.

 

 

hummer

IMG_0185

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wings’  wild

whir-ring

paused…

 

black  bead-eyes

scan scene

 

sharp proboscis

points

 

iridescent  avifauna

 

dips

deeply

of

honeyed nectar

 

and wishes for dinner companion.

 

odious ode

(recipe for disaster in quatrain verse)

 

Slow cook this hearty hot porridge,

stir in sweetest honey and cream;

if bears come to breakfast, oh horridge,

we shall hear dear Goldilocks scream.

 

blond trespasser flees cottage in rush–

Papa growls over cooled bowls of mush:

“On warm servings of girls and oatmeal put dibs,

they’re both full of fiber and will stick to your ribs!”

 

photo credit: Quaker Oats (an Iowa based company)

 

 

Just for fun response to

Tweetspeak poetry prompt

to write ode to a favorite cereal

 

(photo credit:  www.quakeroats.ca)

lenten way

camino-de-santiago-2-490x324

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

self-denial’s route

picturesque francais pathway

solitude’s silence

 

el camino de

santiago pilgrim walk

to scallop shell sea

 

poetry manifesto…or not

 

memory of menopausal aunt road raging

at unaware defenseless drivers

 

holy guacamole!  eager tongue reaching

to taste zestfully smooth inspiration

 

aghastly entangled gordian knot yielding

only to sharpened double-edged entendre

 

first thoughts bright butterfly winging

free ’til inner editor second-guesses.net

 

crystalline flute trio recital melting

winter slushy to wild refreshing rivulets

 

jealously tuxedoed orcas screaming

bloody murder at deaf penguins

 

hysterical moment when ulysses s. granting

amused moose mousse “pre-approval”

 

…in chocolate denim with shot of espresso, of course.

__________________

 

maybe a little too much “expresso” today…i’m a poet in the larval stage,

misfitting any specific movement, and ambivalent about a manifesto…

i simply write because i’m compelled to by an inner creative urge!

 

growth of a writer

 

mysterious journey

from mechanics

to meaning

is a gradual

unfolding

like the

budding of

a flower.

 

home-grown

humus of a

family garden

of verses:

stories told,

poems recited,

books read,

rhymes mesmerized

then memorized.

 

a greening love

for the glossy

color of words;

their calligraphic

coded stems;

musical cadence

leafy sounds

and fragrantly

nuanced meanings.

 

cloudy thoughts

rain clearer as

they flow

inky and wet

through pen

to paper;

dew distills

on blog post

petals.

 

discovery of

wordsmith

communities

is a fresh

gathering

of bouquets

or loading

rich fertilizer

into a red

wheelbarrow

to carry home.

 

limer-ache

 

There once was a chocolatier judge

who ate too many samples of fudge

SO much of a treat

NO longer tastes sweet

from his bench, he simply couldn’t budge!

 

Image

(photo from wikimedia commons, mackinacfudgeshop_turtle)

inscrutable

(a tearful triolet)

 

dark are the days God hides his face

when sinners cry for rescue

long are the nights we pray for grace

dark are the days God hides his face

we hope to reach a better place

doubt is dark side of faith – it’s true

dark are the days God hides his face

when sinners cry for rescue.

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Wrote this describing the “dark night of the soul”  when one wrestles with God. (Later decided to link up with d’versepoets for Mary’s theme of “invisibility”)

fabulist’s fab four

*linked to d’Versepoets on Bjorn’s invitation to write about fables

 

in new york city

(comics doing time)

humanoid turtle

teenagers fight crime

 

creative license

is running wild when

green vigilantes

entertain a child

 

japanese fables

american made

practice martial arts

toy market stealth raid

 

such is modern art

in renaissance style

masters mutated

art history’s on trial

 

moral of this tail?

 

save the pet turtles

from mutagen ooze

keep out of sewers

beware ninjutsus!

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo

green acres

 

city girl

marries 

farm boy

 

he’s blond

she, brunette,

(haircolor, that is)

 

does chocolate

milk really come 

from brown cows?

 

better get a scoop

bull— is piling up!

 

digging ditch together

is newlywed boot camp;

a “hopelessly in love“

truce to trench warfare

 

loading livestock 

is a loaded activity

testing marriage vows

(and assorted oaths)

 

can’t throw bales?

ok, you can drive but

easy with that clutch…

hay, hey, haaeey!

 

till debt ?

“no-till” death

do us part.

 

wings of a dove

 

my thoughts flutter

like birds in the tree

i slowly raise the window

hoping to hear them sing

but they scatter with wings

i watch them fly away…

should  i try to follow?

 

my valentine

 

He said, “I do”

so he did, does,

and will too!

 

with heart and hands

he works the land,

tends to livestock,

builds a farm,

loves his wife and

babes in arms.

 

thank you, honey,

for the sweetness

you’ve stirred into

my life’s cup!

 

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