There
is Hope in the words
of my
poems, Your words, Lord,
shared
with me, my fingers on the keyboard
flowing
from them onto the screen, the page
Faith
in my walk in the world
in
the knowledge of You,
the
certainty of Your presence
Your
abundant Grace
Love in
my heart because of the ways
You
touch my life, Your hold me,
giving
me a family, a household of faith
to
share my days, this journey
Together
faith, hope and love
They
are a force to mend the world
continue
to give me words
filled
with Your Love, our Hope.
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edited September
26, 2019
Hope in the Words
– v2
&
November
3, 2017
the
cadence of the words
&
edited
January 13, 2016
A
Calling to Write – v4
(editing
version 3)
edited
November 4, 2015
A
Calling to Write – v3
(editing
version 2)
July
6, 2015
A
Calling to Write – v2
August
30, 2011
Hearing
Your Words
written
after looking up the earlier poem,
“A
Calling to Write”
February
4, 2010
A
Calling to Write
Habakkuk
2:2
Habakkuk
1
Habakkuk
2:1-3
and
Day 138, “Write the Revelation”, in
“Daily
Mediations: On Golden Texts of the Bible”,
by
Henry Gariepy
read
2/4/10
&
edited
January 13, 2016
Inspiration
Poetry – v6
(merging
edits to version 3, version 4, and version 5)
(I
know, this is part of the craft thing…)
edited November 17, 2015
Inspiration
Poetry – v5
(editing
version 3)
edited November 5, 2015
Inspiration
Poetry – v4
(editing
version 3)
edited
November 4, 2015
Inspiration
Poetry – v3
(merging
version 2 and original)
Edited
September 4, 2012
“Inspiration
Poetry – v2”
May
24, 2009
“Inspiration
Poetry”
&
merged
/ edited January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v29
(merging
edits to version 28, version 15, version 16, version 17,
version
18, version 19, version 20, version 21 version 22, version 23,
version
24, version 25, version 26, and version 27)
&
edits
of individual poems
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v28
(editing
version 14)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v27
(editing
version 13)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v26
(editing
version 12)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v25
(editing
version 10)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v24
(editing
version 9)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v23
(editing
version 8)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v22
(editing
version 7)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v21
(editing
version 6)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v20
(editing
version 5)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v19
(editing
version 4)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v18
(editing
version 3)
edited
January 9, 2016
seeing
the words – v17
(editing
version 2)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v16
(editing
original)
edited
January 9, 2016
Seeing
the Words – v15
(editing
version 11)
edited
April 10, 2015
seeing
the words – v14
(editing
version 10)
edited
January 31, 2015
seeing
the words – v13
(editing
original)
edited
January 31, 2015
Seeing
the Words – v12
(editing
original and version 11)
edited
May 28, 2014
“Seeing
the Words – v11
edited
February 15, 2014
“seeing
the words – v10”
(editing
version 4)
Edited October 26, 2013
“seeing
the words – v9”
(editing
version 7)
Edited
October 25, 2013
“seeing
the words – v8”
(editing
version 3 again)
Edited
October 23, 2013
“seeing
the words – v7”
(editing
version 3)
Edited
October 19, 2013
“seeing
the words – v6”
(editing
version 3)
Edited
October 12, 2013
“seeing
the words – v5”
(editing
version 4)
Edited
October 11, 2013
“seeing
the words – v4”
(editing
version 3)
Edited
October 5, 2013
“seeing
the words – v3”
(editing
the original again)
Edited
July 22, 2013
“seeing
the words – v2”
December
4, 2007 12:25pm
“seeing
the words”
about
writing poetry, when it is a gift of God,
transcribing
the words God already wrote
&
edited
January 7, 2016
Personal
Poetry – v2
posted
February 21, 2004
February
3, 2004 16:45
Personal
Poetry
&
edited
January 3, 2016
Rewriting
– v3
(editing
original)
edited
July 11, 2014
Rewriting
– v2
September
28, 2001 05:33
Rewriting
&
edited
December 17, 2015
Poetry
– revised – v2
posting
2/5/2004 – 1st posting
to blog
last
edit 8/13/2000
edit
5/24/2000
Poetry
– revised
&
edited
June 29, 2015
Nouns
Verbs and Adjectives – v5
(editing
version 3)
edited
April 11, 2015
Nouns
Verbs and Adjectives – v4
(editing
version 2)
edited
March 2, 2015
Nouns
Verbs and Adjectives – v3
(editing
version 2)
Edited
April 24, 2013
“Nouns
Verbs and Adjectives – v2”
September
5, 2008
“Nouns
Verbs and Adjectives”
written
at the Agape Café coffeehouse
Wesley
United Methodist Church
(one
of 24 written there that night)
writing
poetry with third grade classes
Barrington
Elementary School
Spring
2001
&
edited
May 19, 2015
Poetry
– haiku – 2 – v2
November
1, 2009
Poetry
– haiku - 2
&
edited
March 23, 2015
Sounds
of Scribbles – v3
(editing
version 2)
edited
January 31, 2015
Sounds
of Scribbles – v2
August
18, 2004 21:58
Sounds
of Scribbles
&
September
24, 2006 16:39
A
Year in Words
This
poem marks 365 poems in the last 365 days – 9/24/05 to 9/24/06
&
September
22, 2006 20:47
A
Waterfall of Words
&
September
21, 2006 22:58
Hope
in the Words
&
edited
March 21, 2015
Flash
of Joy – v5
(editing
version 3)
edited
January 14, 2015
Into
Being – v2
edited
January 14, 2015
Flash
of Joy – v4
(editing
version 2)
edited
January 14, 2015
Flash
of Joy – v3
(editing
original)
edited
May 24, 2012
Flash
of Joy – v2
February
2, 2004 11:44
Flash
of Joy
–
Written in reaction to the response to the poem “Into Being”
by
Roberta Woods –
“Love
it! You've captured the
essence of writing not as a discipline but as joy. And it is because it is pure joy (the
agony comes later during revision) it is not a discipline in the sense of
having rigid edges. All
doing from joy is a gift to the doer as well as the recipient whether cooking,
writing, gardening or any other activity. My joy activities are writing and
carpentry. All the rest
require me to have discipline to get them done. –Roberta”
&
January
31, 2004 19:28-19:36
Into
Being
–
About the process of writing as merely writing down the words, suggested by
Roberta Woods earlier in the day. I see her point, based on the way my writing
often comes quickly. Even when I edit it as I write, it is more to get it
right/write. We had been talking about “one-book wonders” and had segwayed into
a discussion of how she writes daily and how, when she starts writing a story,
it often is prolific.
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