So many goodbyes So many hellos I’m weary of changes Weary of losing loved ones No energy to love new friends But I keep trying The gaps need filling More absences More additions It’s all so confusing sometimes Sapping my strength with cold While the warmth barely suffices But I keep moving Just to stay […]
Category: Random Thoughts
Mental Rest
Pausing just a moment for mental rest, I find a small place inside of me quiet, Waiting for Your presence to manifest In a way I can grasp-body, soul, spirit. It’s not often my soul stills itself for You, As rightly I should do more in this riot, But now, unexpected, I linger anew Because […]
Hangin’ Out in the Fire
John and I were discussing the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. I love it when someone not as familiar with a story gives me a new perspective!!! I read the part where Nebuchadnezzar ordered them thrown in to a furnace heated seven times hotter than normal. The guys who threw them in died from […]
I Dare You
[Note: I found this a couple of days ago. I have no idea WHEN exactly I wrote it. Maybe Sept. 2005 or July 2008. I don’t even remember writing it, except I seem to have just ranted on paper, put it in a Word doc, formatted it, and then emailed it to myself so I […]
Ode To A Winter Night
Cold winter night sky, you draw me Up into the crystal clarity that seems So far from where I am on the inside. Even when the city lights obscure the stars With their occasional brilliant glee peeping through, The blackness between the bare branches Offers an internal security blanket. I could stare… all night… Letting […]
random thought
It’s Thursday. Spring is finally on its way. My mom and my best friend are both going through crises (one at a hospital in Phoenix with her adoptive mom and the other at a hospital here in Nashville with her legally adopted daughter). My husband is watching TV. I’m online doing school stuff (and writing […]
Are We Done Yet?
It’s nice to know I’m listened to, and read and understood– At least that’s what they tell me all the time. But I can think of only one who speaks his mind (and should) That I don’t prompt for feedback on a rhyme. I go along and write a verse or poem here and there […]
Composing
To create thoughts, ideas, Feelings, things shared without boundary. There is music in the simplicity of silence— Hands still, heart full, eyes closed. There are words on the blank page Waiting, like unpopped popcorn, To burst across the consciousness and land In some format that makes sense. There is beauty unrecognized, but present, In every […]