Amen

A message to the great I Am
Meant to praise and petition
Emotions in the raw
Needing a punctuation mark

February 17, 2007 14:00
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John

Jesus more direct
Opaque no more
Hear his message
Now it’s on us

February 17, 2007 12:25



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Lamb

Lord God Almighty
Answer to a broken world
Mary’s child in the manger
Born to fulfill, for sacrifice

February 17, 2007 12:10


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Dove

Descending from heaven
Onto the servant king
Veil lifted, in relationship with Him
Everyone is called

February 17, 2007 11:40


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Your Final Day

A day not unlike today
pulling me back in time
to that fateful day
before the call
from the state police

Nor’ Easter, cold and urgent
gripped the state, the region
cold relentless snow, fell
or hurtled to the earth
covering in feet, not mere inches

Schools and work gave way
giving in to the force of the storm
the fury of its blast, before the
freezing rain fell,
on all too cleared roads
layer on layer it fell,
coating everything bare
in black ice

A tired man, after a long night
at his work, finished project
a day on the slopes,
car trouble after one last run

Down the interstate he flew,
tired and unaware,
to his destiny that night
on the black ice

February 14, 2007 17:10


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1,100 poems

I have now reached 1,100 published poems on this site.


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Oh How I Love Her

She smiled at me,
with my bouquet of roses,
freshly brought
up from their hiding place
in the cold basement
hidden for a night,
to be ready for the morning
to share with my wife
on Valentine’s Day

Oh how I wish I had more
to give her, to show her
the depth of my love
the want for the best
for her each breath
of her day

Reading with joy,
the words of her card
to me, her friend, her husband
knowing the love she gave
in choosing the right one

Holding he so tight as we kissed
murmuring I love you’s
and Happy Valentine’s Day’s
in the still of the house
before the children awake

Quiet, precious time,
spent with her
My love


February 14, 2007 16:44


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Another Milestone

She reached another milestone
another hurdle cleared
preparing herself for the next step
another moment of success
leading to the calling she feels
the affirmed calling
to ministry
She was admitted, accepted
called to get the good news
of admission to Seminary
to where the sandals, to prepare
to be the hands and feet, and voice,
of the master,
to begin the more formal steps
to go where others have led
learning with new insights
the ancient message
new voice, get ready to sing
drinking in the word
now that you have passed
another milestone


February 14, 2007 16:35


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It’s snowing now

It's snowing now
as I write this note.
Little temporal curtains of snow
like pages of paper which
materialize and disappear
into a thousand pixels
They go by along with
the snow showers,
almost horizontal at times,
puffs and pulses,
between the two tenements
little swirls of white.
dancing and falling
to the white below,
accumulating white
where the yard was yesterday
because of the lack of snow
this strange winter
a winter with the first snow
a Valentine’s Day Nor’ Easter
with snow and sleet, and freezing rain
along the coast
It’s snowing still, five hours
since the starting lines of the poem
Cold snow, all silent and white



February 14, 2007 16:29


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Shanequa - 1st time using knife - last week

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Roses for Ruth

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Snow Hearts - made by Ruth, photo by Ray

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