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1 Undated 2017
- 1.1 photograph (poem)
- 1.2 rush (poem)
2 February 2017
3 March 2017
4 April 2017
- 4.1 4/26/17
5 May 2017
- 5.1 5/1/17
  - 5.1.1 Autumn (poem)
- 5.2 5/3/17
  - 5.2.1 Seed (poem)
  - 5.2.2 Burning (poem)
6 June 2017
- 6.1 6/4/17
  - 6.1.1 True (poem)
- 6.2 6/6/17
  - 6.2.1 Arm in Arm (poem)
7 June 20-21 START OF SUMMER
8 July
9 August
10 September 2017
11 October 2017
12 November 2017
13 December 2017

Undated 2017

photograph (poem)

wander through, like sunlight on my fingertips
I cast about the empty room,
like a dancer caught in arabesque
frozen in the midst of time
like a photograph in endless light

rush (poem)

NB

softly, we open our mouths and whisper
silence wept beneath the rush
of the silent rushing water
under our bridge — Hush, dear; hush

February 2017

2/8/17

Image (poem)

NB [Tumblr]

Moments pass in crystal mirrors
shining in another's eyes
Catch the sun and make it shimmer
cast it back into the light
I will be your bright reflection
if you will be my inner sight

Who Do You Think I Am? (poem)

NB [Tumblr]

Who do you think I am? the daughter of pain
Once upon a time I knew my name
You think I am the monster in the night
And never asked who taught me how to fight

Who do you think I am? I could be yours
The changeling child stol'n away in night hours
I was raised by military hands
On your behalf, I have razed foreign lands

Who do you think I am? your conqueror
Though I have deposed your emperor
Thrown down those I know have spilled your blood
But isn't it easier 'stead to blame us?

Who do you think I am? the daughter of pain
This blood I can't wash out has made a stain
Upon my soul and conscience, the price for life
That I should be the weapon out of sight

Who do you think I am? I could be yours
I wanted to be someone's, like before
Before I was a weapon, I was a child
I was not a monster nor born wild

Who do you think I am, your conqueror?
I took my freedom, but did not defer
Yours or bring down powers innocent
Of the blood of children that they spent

Who do you think I am? the daughter of pain
Once upon a time I knew my name
And one day, I vow, I'll find again
Who I always knew I might have been

Kiss me like the lightning
Make my insides spark so bright
Let your fingertips like thunder
Make a rumbling throughout
Stare at me like stormclouds
Fix me with your nimbus gaze
Make everything around me
But you to fall away

lumen (poem)

the light plays music
across my fingers
golden notes
like dawn, my hope

Spilt (poem)

All I hoped for, all I wanted
Right in front of me
I knocked it over, poured it out
I spilled the cup of tea
I sniffed, I sopped, I mopped it up
I sighed most wistfully
But, alas, resigned myself
It wasn't meant to be

Mystique (poem)

For R

blood is silent, yet it cries
it whispers in your foreign eyes
the worlds are spinning on your tongue
are you ancient; are you young?

We (poem)

love is a heart that bleeds
when yours is hurt
love is a soul that aches
when yours is burned

love is a hold that warms
when you are cold
love will stand behind you
when you're bold

love is the shout of joy
in your success
love is happiness when
your dreams are met

love is two hands twined
the eyes that meet
and speak without our words
all that we need

restless (poem)

quiet moves in quiet places
unstill, unwhispered, full of faces
they open up their silent mouths
a room unempty of quiet shouts

dreams remembered (poem)

I've forgotten how to dream
once I knew, I'm sure I knew
you know the vivid way it seems
that life is seeping out and gleams
that is how I always dreamt
I never wondered what it meant
that I could wake from such a life
it shook me up, it made me cry
I used to try so hard to lose
the things I dreamt, I'd gladly choose
to walk away into my day
so hard, so fast, it fell away
I realized once not long ago
that all the dreams I used to know
that used to burn in me, aglow
seem like photographs so old
I've forgotten how to dream
I used to know, I'm sure it's so
do you remember how they gleamed
vivid, seeping from their seams

2/9/17

The Daily Shuffle (poem)

The daily shuffle

back and forth,

forward and back—

Mind the track! I feel the pain

within my throat,

within my chest—

the daily grind,

it never ends.

2/19/17

Know It Is (poem)

Life is a shattered mirror
spiderweb memories fragile
like ice after a hoarfrost night
before it is thick enough to hold
our weight—just hold my hand
I won't let go
I know it's cold
I know you see your breath and
know it's going to be a long way down
but that is life

March 2017

3/1/17

light goes spinning (poem)

The light goes spinning around and 'round
I close my heart, but it makes no sound
I open it up to Your great light
That my heart may joy and faith 'come sight

3/3/17

(haiku for ice)

the top of the world
seems lonely, wind cutting ice
tears from my lashes

3/5/17

(haiku for sunlight)

catch morning sunlight
waking my eyes—sharp, gentle.
forgive winter's bite

3/12/17

The Way She Moves (sonnet)

For S and M

The way she moves, all confidence and grace
The fire's dance compared is commonplace
Her violent touch to conquer foreign land
Is gentle when she touches me again
I touch her warmth and trace her many scars
Against the softest skin, cascade of stars
Her voice is low, a rasp within my ear
Like shivers in the thunder that I hear

They say my lover's ruthless and she's harsh
They say she knows no mercy nor no fear
They say that they can see the scathing arch
Her eyebrows make and all her coldness hear
They've never felt the way she clings to me
Nor understood what is necessity

3/29/17

fruit of joy (poem)

light
is the
song on my lips,
the fruit of our joy
in each other,
is us

shining bright (poem)

Joy,
the light
within your
beautiful eyes
shining bright
at me—
my.

April 2017

4/26/17

Together (poem)

early this morning, I thought of you
you by my side when the sky was blue
you at my back when the clouds are grey
never without me walking away

Tenderly (poem)

Croon to me a love song
Soon into my heart and
Save me very tenderly
Brave my heart tonight

Under the bridge (poem)

it’s water under the bridge
just water
you can tell me over and over again
it’s just water
and I’ll cry my tears
and I’ll drown your pride
and in the end, stand by your side
it’s just water

May 2017

5/1/17

Autumn (poem)

months pass; leaves fall
little children grow so tall
footprints damp in rampant piles
colors bright for just a while

5/3/17

Seed (poem)

there’s beauty in the silences
that swirl ’round my room
that enter into distances
that flirt with the monsoon
there’s something deep inside of me
the eye, a growing storm
I keep it close, this light you see
to spark me bright and warm

Burning (poem)

I feel the light,
burning in the distance—
It's the light of a thousand fires,
the light of a hundred candles,
the light of a thousand souls
burning in a hundred hearts
(Can't you feel the light,
not only in the distance?)—
but also in my heart.

June 2017

6/4/17

True (poem)

today is quite a lovely day
in the most significant way
the way that means I spoke to you
and knew again our friendship true

6/6/17

Arm in Arm (poem)

Joy is when we say hello
We breathe the air another breathes
We wrap our arms, for as we go
We are one in everything

Happiness is the way we walk
The road together where’er it leads
We laugh at night, by day we talk
And always care for the other’s needs

Friendship is how we live our lives
We’ve known each other since we were small
Complementary as cream and chives
And love each other best of all

June 20-21 START OF SUMMER

July

7/9/17

Adoption (poem)

Heaven would be ours
should we know our powers,
for heaven is within
and to the Lord we're kin
if we take His name,
let His adoption claim
change the name we hold
into His like and mold.

Heartbeat (poem)

There's a song in my heart
O the mercies I chart
In the soul of my God
In the depths of His love

When anxiety frays
My peace and it sways
My soul from its course
I command, Light, come forth!

For the power of Christ
Is the song of my life
It is pounding in me
The true heartbeat of me

Another word for (poem)

Technical difficulties
Is another word
For universe having a laugh

there's water (poem)

there's water under the bridge
it's gone, long gone, by now
but there's a channel in the earth
of our history and a bridge

dawn echo (poem)

echoing into the darkness
shines the light
open my eyes to brightness
newness of sight
shake out my newborn wings
and rise in flight

7/18/17

If I Can Find a Way (poem)

If I can find a way
to shove it under the bridge,
I will.
If I can find a way
to drown it under the bridge,
I will.
If I can find a way
to throw it under the bridge,
I will—
every time
you did not understand,
every time
we did not get along,
every time
we could not cross the bridge—
because I know
our love remains strong.

7/24/17

Burning Bridges (poem)

Yesterday, a bridge
Today, the ashy water
Pours out of my mouth
Like a mighty river

Feathers (poem)

Two broken wings
Taped together
Maybe we can't fly
We keep each other warm

7/25/17

Transcend (poem)

Look into my butterfly heart
Look beneath my tight furl'd wings
In the cocoon, that dark, close part
There transcend terrestial things
I'll wake soon
And leave cocoon

7/28/17

May (poem)

I am grateful for the sun
It may be hot, but I am warm

I am grateful for the wind
It may be cold, but I can breathe

I am grateful for my friends
They may tease, but I am loved

I am grateful for the day
I may be tired, but I'm alive

The Heart and the Spark (poem)

Every once in a while
Someone falls in love
It couldn't be me, it wouldn't be me
But knowing it isn't enough
You can't just think it is true
Or feel it deep down in your bones
Your heart and the spark
Must ever apart
Remain or bam! you're in love

Uncertain Date

Prayer 010. Remind Me (poem)

Today, remind me who to be
A child of God in everything
To hold to You, O Lord, and cling
To the love of Christ in me

August

8/1/17

Culminate (poem)

You taught me joy in darkest hours
Filled me, touched me, made me love
The way we are before our powers
End the world: it is enough

Moon Bright (poem)

Moon bright
Moon light
Shines into
My room tonight
Kisses me
Upon my head
Sending sleep
Into my bed

8/2/17

(haiku for tea)

morning tea steaming
snowy white porcelain cup
breaking tide of peace

(haiku for tea)

evening tea heating
warm hands, warm soul; day's frost thaws
rest easy tonight

With You (poem)

Joy is the way you kiss me

You fill my heart with warmth

Love is the way you hold me

Through every violent storm

Peace is the way it feels to

Hold your hand in mine

As we rest together

Our hearts in perfect time

8/11/17

Daybreak (poem)

Morning breaks the night
Dawn shatters in light
Hours passed like dreams
Nothing what it seems

8/15/17

(for me)

broken eggshells
my heart
emptiness inside

this too (poem)

this too shall pass
even this
tomorrow it
will not be missed

where I've been (poem)

tell me where I've been
I've been hiding out for a while
hiding in the bottom
of my quiet, shivering heart
tell me what to say
what you will believe
I promise nothing but
an ever tighter weave

running like a mind (poem)

there's water under the bridge
it's running like a mind
ahead of the briar thorns
of memory in my spine
there's water under the bridge
it's drowning like a lie
beneath relentless truth
when nothing left can hide

8/16/17

burden (poem)

we are tired
of the heavy places,
the deep tirades,
required graces,
every word
you ever spoke
from the day
my eyes awoke

8/17/17

dance our war (poem)

we conquered cities
we stomped our feet
danced our war
to every beat
of our twin hearts
and no retreat
cry, my love
the taste is sweet

8/21/17

sometimes, you lose (poem)

Sometimes, you lose a poem
It falls from your mind like drops of sunlight
Pouring molten into the next
At least, you pray, it'll have a good rest

This Time (poem)

This isn't the first time you've done this
Disappointed me in my grief
This isn't the first time you've brought me
To tears and to disbelief
But I will find from inside me
The strength to give praise to my God
For even from this, He can save me
Even from this, can bring good

Light (poem)

Moonlight, starlight, sunlight
Last light, first light, bright light
You are the light of day to me
You are the glow over tides I see
You are the brightness before the dawn
I stare at you through the eclipse — you're gone

kiss me goodnight (poem)

kiss me where the blood runs down
where water flows and floods the town
where right is left and up is down
where angels drench their wings and drown

dance me in the brightest light
where sun is flaming into night
burning as it falls from sight
the end of all, eternal night

8/22/17

A Cat (poem)

Some days I think
To myself on the brink
Of another load
Of work, O to be
A cat!

Sky (poem)

flowers bright and warm
their brilliant colors waving
in gentle summer breezes
beneath a cloud-full sky

the way the sun rises
against the golden tide
cresting a deep blue ocean
guided by evening star

the way the sun sets
over the nimbus hues
of vivid pink and scarlet
my Colorado skies

Shadow (poem)

shadow on the wall
you step so quietly
catch me lest I fall
through the heart of everything

Lock and Key (poem)

you're the lock, I'm the key
together we are everything

wild flower (poem)

Robe the fields in scarlet
Array them in peony red
Run through the nodding flowers
And kiss them upon their heads

8/23/17

green (poem)

green pastures
soft meadows
trees shelter
wild flowers
sun shining
blue water
new summer
leaves growing

in whispers (poem)

somebody tell me in whispers
the way that the world turns
won't fly out like a flare
from the sun and be lost in the earth
somebody hold me in silence
breathe comfort into my back
that the end of all things is not here yet
that there is still time to grow yet

Sacrifice (poem)

Burn the road behind my path.
Unwind the yarn before me.
Let the bridges fall in charred
ashes upon the creek.
Only one of us shall step
into the dark, cold breach.
I know you want to sacrifice,
but I love you. It's going to be me.

8/24/17

Mine (poem)

Tell me what is mine

your heart?

I've never counted time

by mine

but I will count your breaths

and breathe

though I may roam (poem)

new house, new home
though I may roam
your heart will be
true north to me

day and night (poem)

morning, wake
within your arms
I lean on you
your shoulder's warm

by day, we're working
side by side
my many plans
in you confide

evening rest
finds me at last
asleep with you
our troubles past

Contentment (poem)

Warm fuzzies
Loud purr
Cat paws
Soft fur

claim (poem)

they tell me she won't love you
no one ever taught her how
they tell me she will kill you
should you ever let her down
they haven't seen her spear me
with her steady, certain gaze
nor felt her hand like iron
as she claims me in all ways

8/25/17

Prayer 011 (poem)

Lord, the day before me

is beautiful and bright

Lord, the work before me

is heavier than I'd like

But You, O Lord, are perfect

and, Lord, You are my strength

Carry me and guide me

today in everything

chambers of my heart (poem)

plant a seed of love

and kindness blooms

fill with tenderness

these empty rooms

the chambers of my heart

where hope still looms

avenue (poem)

an avenue of autumn trees
the faintest chill upon the breeze
revel in the falling leaves
flaming bright before they freeze

8/27/17

Moving (poem)

Today, we pack
Tomorrow, we load
The day after that,
The movers come in
All because
The home that we chose
Is lovelier far
Than the one that we're in

Blame (poem)

You throw around blame
Like it's all a big game
There's no equity in your name
Your reputation
Is built on lies
All your gold is but false prize

September 2017

9/1/17

A Grain of Faith (poem)

There is light at the end of this very long tunnel
There is hope at the top of this very tall funnel
Though a grain of faith is what reaches me
That's enough to bring eternity

Enough To (poem)

Got enough sorrows to drown in
Got enough prayers I must pray
Got enough words in my heart now
That are too heavy to say
But I open my mouth to a song and
I lift up my hands as I sway
If I can just find room to dance now
I will feel better today

and I (poem)

somebody tell me why
you are the reason why
my heart beats in my chest
and I
can't seem to make it
beat without you

scorn (poem)

The Database (Character)

you ask me why I'm caustic
you ask me why I'm harsh
you ask me what's my problem
but I'm barely getting warm

have you seen my future
or have you seen my past
if you had looked at either
you would never have to ask

alas, my friend (poem)

there will be other moments
and other conversations
there will be other heart-to-hearts
you are not two nations
your minds will meet again
you will again be friends
this isn't where it ends
you're just too strong to bend

excuses (poem)

don't bother me with excuses
don't trouble me with your lies
I can read the truth myself
from right within your eyes

9/3/17

seeking wisdom (poem)

wisdom guards the steps of those
who turn to you, who listen with their ear
to that quiet voice of stillness
inside us, for Your voice is very near

though our breath is near us, though our tongues
speak the words we hold within our cheek
nearer yet is precious Holy Spirit
Yours the voice and words I truly seek

A Day (poem)

This has been a day

You had one too

(not that You are finite)

I know You

had patience as I learned

to ever praise

through the very worst

of my bad days

Prayer 012 (poem)

You take charge and
You make plans
Let me follow
Your commands
I give all
My steps to You
Guard them, Lord,
And keep me true

count (poem)

count me in;

count me out

every moment adding up
I'm in twice;

I'm out twice

bring me in and fill my cup
you are home;

I am yours

surely, that should count for two
I will wait;

I'm with you

nothing else will ever do

silver (poem)

Canon: The Mirror

silver beckons
over hands
silver slips
in gleaming strands
I whisper silver
do my will
it shifts, obeys
and then lies still

A Treat (poem)

blow me kisses
make them sweet
seeing you
has been my treat

9/5/17

winter fire (poem)

Tell me what you think
of me
on winter nights, when skies are cold
and blue;
you touch me like I'm made of fire
holding hands
to keep you warm.

Everything (poem)

Everything I ever wanted
Everything you meant to me
Castles in the sky you promised
But you the ground beneath my feet
All I dreamed of, all I hoped for
Was your arms to comfort me

this my land (poem)

beauty
the eye of the beholder
wonder
the ear of the one who hears
behold
my skies, the mountains rising
here
from the earth I call my home

glitch (poem)

The cat, she naps;
Her baleful eye
is on me if I twitch
She shifts, her claws
are on me! I
cry protest at the switch.
Barely disturbed,
she purrs to sleep,
as though 'twas but a glitch.

Shadowed (poem)

Inkblot shadow
You curl around my edges
I nudge the window
Open. Breathe
You touch my mouth instead

Troth (poem)

I will burn like wind
Blown from the sun
Bear my light and heat
Or you must run
Thus then I may know
If you're the one

9/6/17

little songbird (poem)

little songbird,
wander far
but remember who you are
precious child,
spread your wings
fly and then come home to me

9/7/17

How Fly the Hours (poem)

How do the hours fly by so quickly?
Like wind in my hair, not slow sands dripping
Through time's turning glass, through the hours slipping
My hands in its mane, sweaty and gripping
Time seems to fly if our mouths are laughing
And doesn't slow down when we fall to weeping
Ride, bright stallion, into the bright sun
I'll see you when the day is done

too bad (poem)

shut up
you tell me who I am
you tell me who to be
you tell me who I was raised to be
but this does not define me
I am who I am
and who I choose to be
and if you think the world don't like that
too bad, I'll still be me

rust (poem)

I will survive
though I drown in the dust
though you beat me and fail me
though the air turns to rust
Yes, I will survive
though the night chills to cold
my wounds will heal over
the blood will grow old

I am sharp edges (poem)

My bones dance

I am sharp edges

You are the whetstone

of my face

The sun flames

like a bright spotlight

Watch me dance

in this harsh place

9/8/17

Tell Me Now (poem)

Tell me who I ought to be
I'll tell you who you are to me
Tell you all the things I knew
When you and I were only true
In friendship and platonic love
When you and I were still enough
I'll tell you all the roads we went
And all the dreams we ever spent
Do you know the paths we walked
The memories we never talked
About and all the hopes so sweet
Until they faltered underneath
The bruising years that lay ahead
And now behind us that lay dead
Tell me who I ought to be
Now that you're again with me

I'm Not the One (poem)

I'm not the one you wanted me to be
I haven't crossed the bridges that you marked
I didn't walk down roads you'd paved for me
I learned my own tongue with which to speak
You never could quite get your hold on me
I would mutely wait for you to leave
I poured a waterfall to sail away
You said the words, but I never did believe

Us (poem)

Why is the sun on your hair like heaven
The kiss of the wind like the breath of love
The feel of your hand under mine pure wonder
How did I ever become one of us

Regret (poem)

Blood drips down your unforgiven fingers
This is the guilt that plagues you and it lingers
If you could undo your deeds and try again
Nothing would really change, not even then

moon (poem)

The moon is young
It shines new light
The night gives way
Without a fight

9/10/17

Prize (poem)

someone give the girl a prize
and open up your eyes

while you're at it

and maybe realize
when you're looking for her prize

that you ain't it

9/11/17

moonlight (poem)

moonlight on piano keys
you play my heart
forget to breathe

dawn (poem)

sun is dancing on my heart
new mornings singing deep in me
joy reborn from old wounds healed
through my night has stolen dawn

Phoenix (poem)

I was a quiet little girl once
That girl died
You might have killed her
I stand upon her grave
And I sing my war cry
You might have given me life

some days (poem)

some days
I feel so tired
so heavy
under the clouds
I feel like
they think I want the moon
I want
the night

Question and Answer (poem)

I am a question mark today
I meet each brand new face and say
Are the answer thrown my way?

Quiet Tonight (poem)

The wind is quiet tonight
inside my head
Where the rush and the pellmell howling
was instead
But tonight you sit beside me
in quiet hope
And tonight our hands our bound
with comfort's rope

the dancer (poem)

I am the quiet blade
the dancer in the whirlwind
the silent whisper before
the cutting flames
whisper my name
and I will come to you
sharp as the arrow flies

the spark (poem)

I have been wandering through the wilderness
Keeping my eyes open in case I see you
You are elusive, I'm not even sure what you are
But the wilderness grows wilder and more expansive

I plunge the deep green grasses over my head
I plow through the icy waters of rivers run through
I wait by the stillness of eddies with fire and bread
Yet you still beckon from where I have never been

There in the night are the speckled stars
Dancing like silk-robed heiresses of the night
Like a candle, you fly to my side, like a spark of fire
Without permission you fly down into my heart

And there in the widerness lands I learn how to smile
For you are the joy I once lost while out in the dark

camping (poem)

This wasn't exactly my idea of a good time.
Why did you bring me out here?
I'm an indoor girl—

I want my books,

my fireplace,

my cup of tea.

Enjoy the thrill of becoming one with nature.
I'm sure it will hug you back.
I'm off to my night,

my warm lamplight,

and mostly my cup of tea!

Cup of Comfort (poem)

There is peace in my cup of tea with my Father God
Comfort in my poetry and grateful laud
For assurance You will bring out of this good

Journeyman (poem)

I'm starting to get the hang of being me
I fear
You used to wonder when I'd grow into my skin
I'm playing it by ear
And the melody breaks, I'm dancing on the floor
This is the truth you didn't know
And more

Clean Break (poem)

Finally we are something new
I asked my heart for things to do
That were not lost so deep in you
For I am me and you are you

Cup (poem)

I am an empty cup
You try to fill me up
But I am also sealed
And only by me filled

bones (poem)

bones break
burn
ache
grind them down
to dust
make
a promise when
you build
again
don't forget
to put
love in

Pinpricks (poem)

Someone let the light in
to my soul.
Poke a few bright pinpricks
through my hull.
I promise not to sink
but rise in flight
over the winds of hope
and wings of light.

9/12/17

Prayer 013 (poem)

Good morning, God, it's me again
Your small, sincere, bad weather friend
Always new trials for You to mend
But also gratitude I send

But not enough, it's also true
I want to always think of You
To act in love, to always do
What is right and see it through

You are God of all to me
The fullness of eternity
Look on me with sympathy
And remake me utterly

Prayer 014 (poem)

Joy is of the saints and radiant praise
is become their garments and their days
are full of giving thanks, of ceaseless praise.
Make me one of these in all my ways!

haiku (for songbirds)

songbirds flutter sweet
like harps, new leaves in the wind,
music to my heart

anticipation (poem)

have you ever noticed
the silence before the bomb goes off,
the fall before a moment shatters
like glass—
that is the moment I remember to breathe
and forget how much it will hurt

Throne (poem)

My heart is like a rock but not a stone
It won't be moved from love I've founded on it
It's neither cold nor hard, the sun beats on it
This is where my God will be enthroned

Mixed (poem)

My skin is not a symbol
nor a mantle of my authority.
I am the color I am
because I'm me.

Can you? (poem)

Teach me something today
I want to cry tonight
Can you mop up my tears
in time for morning light?

Move Me (poem)

Move me to tears
I'll cry
for you
on cue
when the silence speaks
with the eloquence
of your heart.

moments in hope (poem)

There are moments in hope
That make you remember the moments
When night closed in
Around your throat
Curtains fall before the moment
Where triumph comes out of the dark.
Those are the moments you remember
That the dark days pass
The sun breaks through
And the storm rolls back in the sky.

9/13/17

Prayer 015 (poem)

Good morning, Lord, the day is new
Help me live it all for you
Guide my steps in every way
Guard me in Your love today

introduction (poem)

I assume you haven't forgotten
me
I know you know that I
remember you
the way you slam banged your way into
my life
with purpose, vivid stare
on mine
slammed your tray in front of mine
your books
on top of mine and smiled
we're going to be best friends

Safe (poem)

My heart is fragile
Prone to break
But in your hands
I'm sure it's safe

Entire (poem)

I miss the girl I used to be
Did you know her? Gradually
We all forget to really see
Beyond our parts to entirety

depths (poem)

I am many things
I don't even know
the ends of me

9/14/17

Prayer 015 (poem)

God of every perfect thing
Take my morning under wing
Help me work and honor You
Keep my thoughts and motives true

hold on (poem)

Some days we're so weary
and we don't know how to feel,
to bring our hearts in line,
and to bring our minds to heel.
I wish that in those moments,
on those days, I could be fine.
Instead, I will hold on,
so please hold on, O love of mine.

not nice (poem)

Air (Character) from Kingdoms and Thorn

"I want you to find a nice girl,"
is what they said.
I have two ears. I hear them.
You're being a nice boy but stop.
I'm not a nice girl,
I do not say.
I haven't talked to people
for the sake of it, for years.
No matter what they tell you
about what it's like out there,
when someone makes the call
and you take blood on your soul to do it,
nice gets left behind
somewhere along the way.
Some people miss it.
I don't remember it to miss.

the shape of me (poem)

I used to know the shape of me
The way my soul fit into flesh
The burning night set me aflame
I've yet to catalog the ash
The heart of me still skips a beat
At words, at books, at cups of tea
The child in me still falls to her knees
Before the King of Eternity
But every day within me cries
Something pained and nearly mute
I cannot name the thing I need
To understand myself anew
I close my eyes and hear it keen
Waiting for true peace to be

Maybe (poem)

I don't make sense in the table of contents
You can't read the cover and know the book
Open me up, with patience, with love
Maybe you'll read it, maybe you'll learn

scriven (poem)

You and I have been here before
I like to think we're recursive
You open your insides, write me in
Over and over and over again
I write you into my bone and my flesh
We don't even feel the impending crash
You into me and me into you
Whatever occurs, I'll carry you through

9/15/17

Prayer 016 (poem)

Good morning to my Father God,
Wrap me in Your perfect love.
Help me love the way You do.
I need Your help to make it through:
The day began unpleasantly.
I need to praise in everything,
But only by Your strength in me
Can my heart give thanks and sing.

in pieces (poem)

I am in pieces
Try not to shatter me
Maybe I'll return the favor

break a leg (poem)

I am a child compared to you
don't underestimate me now
or you will regret it when we're through
break a leg and take a bow

arms (poem)

The moon is full
The sky is bright
The stars white pinpricks
To my sight
The wind is cold
The night is warm
Because you hold me
In your arms

9/16/17

Prayer 017 (poem)

God, please keep my heart on You
Fill my thoughts with love that's true
Grant me peace against my goals
Heal my wounds and make me whole
I want to live a child of God
I long to know the path I trod
Was one that would be right to You
Please grace me with this hope in You

9/17/17

Tell Me (poem)

C'mon
Tell me something
Make it a good one
Make it like flowers after the rain
Still dripping from the storm
Like sunshine playing
Hide and seek through forest trees
Cover your secrets with history
Let them drip with the rain of our memories
Whisper your truths between secrets
That I will never know
C'mon, tell me
Something

9/18/17

Many Things (poem)

I am many things
None of them yours
So many parts of me
Mine, not ours
Count down every second
Count the hours
This is the end of the line
My soul devours

Spectrum (poem)

There's this thing called tact, it eluded
My grasping fingers when I was born
I walked on my toes like a dancer
Long past three years old
There's always one, our littlest
The odd one out, emphasis odd
No one knew what to do with me
But they never thought to ask
It's not just me that doesn't
Ask the important questions before
There's no help for the answer
No escape and no way out
I sit in the midst of a spectrum
High-functioning, an uneasy truce
With the world that spins around me
Sorry, I say, didn't mean to offend

call them tears (poem)

when did I wander into this rain-soaked world
you call it good, I call it wet with the tears
I never could quite hold them back— baby
that's what they called me, maybe not wrong
but don't think that means I am a child today
I know the way to live through the tears
and I am strong

bloom (poem)

bloom
with the promise
the sun made to the flowers
you will grow
and I
will smile on you
if no one else
can see

pieces (poem)

I am but the pieces of myself
today
do you think that I am broken
I can't say
I wish that I could see myself within
instead I cried
at least I hope you know
I really tried

rest a while (poem)

maybe I'm just a little weary
I'll rest a while in the images
of your beautiful nature
wake up again tomorrow, refreshed
ready to weary myself with work again

9/19/17

Prayer 018 (poem)

Today, dear God, is another day
I want to stop and really pray
Please help live as You would want
Please help me not to give affront
You know I was not born with tact
And get hung up on irrelevant facts
You know I have a lot to do
Please help me keep my eyes on You
And focus on the things I should
In short, please help me to be good

backstory (poem)

I used to know you
You drifted in my life, my bed
I never wanted emptiness instead
My heart still knows you
Standing there right now adrift
Before me again, I lift
The promises from my heart
And set them on a mental shelf
Because I'd also promised myself
"You need to find someone else
To help you." "There is no one else."
"You hate me, remember?"
"I never did. I lied."
You lie down beside me. I let you.
The morning breaks too soon.

In Love (poem)

I have inked your name on my heart
Written it in my life blood
From here until the end of time
Remember me in your love

9/20/17

In the Night (poem)

Laiha (Character) + Kalia (Character)

The night is dark and quiet
I remember lying between
My parents—your parents
Hush, now, you say, they're ours
It's supposed to be my first night alone
But you are here with me now
The gratitude is thick in my throat
As under your arm, I dream

like air (poem)

I need you like air
in the bottom of my lungs
in the depths of the sea
of people I do not know
nor do I care
when you are with me
hands and hearts cling
every place that we go

Wind Stepper (poem)

Laiha (Character) + Kalia (Character)

I dance through the wind
and step through the walls
with you at my back
we answer who calls

like a fire (poem)

my blood burns in my veins
like a fire
you're everything I want
sweet desire
this is what it feels like
love entire

Defer (poem)

Tell me in the morning light
What you think of me tonight
But for now just hold it in
I want to feel your touch again
Not wonder if I get it right

Burn Me Down (poem)

My bones may break beneath you
But I won't quake before you
Burn me to my ashen dust
And feel the phoenix wings that rush

9/21/17

twins (poem)

Kingdoms and Thorn: Air + Shadow

the pieces of you blossom beneath my skin
like parts of our soul were once born kin
but somewhere along the way I was severed from my twin
together we are not whole, but we are together again

Strength (poem)

I am not a hurricane
It's my own choice and my own gain
To give through every ounce of pain
To do what must be done again
There are kinds of quiet strengths
And those who go to any lengths

9/22/2017 - START OF AUTUMN

Brighter (poem)

Sometimes the world seems brighter
Every light in the sky turned up to eleven
And shining down because it sees you
You are the difference between dusk and dawn
The hopeless dirge of endings and bright beginnings
Take my hand, and I won't let go
I promise when the sun comes up
When the sunlight streams over you and shines
So much brighter, so much lighter
That I won't walk away but stay
Until long past the falling night

Feel the Fire (poem)

The sun is burning
A heat mirage in my bones
I don't need to see the light
To feel it, the heat wave, the tide
Rising from under my skin in my heart
Where fire lives and is born
Come feel me, come hold me
Cling 'til your skin turns to ash
I am burning with light

9/25/17

The Elements (poem)

The elements of us
Are deeper than the earth
We're made of heart and fire
We give the light new birth
The stars spin from our souls
Our wind is made of breath
The names beneath our skins
Are more powerful than death

their nova light (poem)

we talk about it sometimes, these feelings
blooming like wings inside our breasts
too small to contain the fluttering
of our new hearts, their nova light
Can you see the universal expansion,
the curve of galaxies spinning out
from within us as we cry,
the birth pangs of new life

Entwined (poem)

Drink of me and I of you
We were two and now we're one
Lives entwined like DNA
For always, like the moon and sun

We Tremble (poem)

The bones of the trees are breaking
The blood of the leaves is flaming
In fiercest blush and flaking
Away from the tender skin
I feel so fragile and shaking
Pressed against bark and naming
This inward tremulous quaking
Imagine that we are kin

9/26/17

when we wander (poem)

shall we be okay when we wander?
shall we always see with eyes of wonder,
never let the cares of world jade,
and never let our love together fade?

autumn's letters (poem)

wind is due
in summer skies
days grow chill
the reasons why
are autumn's letters
to the sun
missing when
the days were young

9/27/17

let the light (poem)

Hey, let the light come in
Throw open the shades
and the hanging curtains
When the sunlight fades
let the chandeliers gleam
and candles flicker bright
with the dancing moonbeams
passing through the room
and fill my sight

tide of wonder (poem)

Don't think about the pain
Look on beauty
Think of pretty things
The sweetest fall of rain
The flowers shaking droplets off
And mountains sweeping to the sky
The melody a songbird sings
The prairie grasses stretch away
The sunrise of a brand new day
Let them wash over your soul
A tide of wonder keeps you whole

Seeker (poem)

Come now, little seeker,
wanderer through the trove
of treasures I have gathered,
listen while you rove.
You are wise and brave!
But braver still you'll be
if of all the things you seek,
seek wisdom faithfully.

Fly (poem)

I'm not the girl you want me to be
My soul's too bright, my song's too free
I hope that you'll eventually
Come around and fly with me

Redemption Verses II. And Christ the Power (poem)

Worthy is the God of heaven
He who claimed most sinful man
Saved His pitiful, ignorant child
Out of her own hand
Were I helpless, besides broken
Maybe I could claim excuse
But the helpers God has given
Were put to wrongful use
Powerful imagination
A mind that serves my wayward thoughts
Must be reined by Christlike impulse
To go the way it ought
And Christ the power that was given
By Christ, grace for me bought

9/28/17

fade (poem)

remember me?
I never disappeared
though you had wanted it
and when the time draws near
you will remember it
all those sleepless nights
when you burned me
to give you light enough
by which to see
I used to fade away
before the morning
you would look for me
a silent warning
I did not disappear
to run away
you will wish I did
instead of stay

(haiku for waking)

morning's light wakes me
heartbeat rush and a sharp turn
meet the rainy dawn

(haiku for dreaming)

dreams come in snatches
like hummingbirds flit, their wings
hum but can't be seen

the crown (poem)

you think you see me falling underwater
you think it's possible for me to drown
in my ocean of imagination
not understanding that I wear the crown
I ride upon the waves that I have drawn out
and make tsunami tides my chariot
the world cresting 'round me I have driven
with the mental powers like a lariat
granted at my birth and in my voice
open up the skies and loose the thunder
every image poured into this ocean
comes reflected back at me in wonder

between the sparks (poem)

I have been waiting in silence between the sparks
Out of my soul comes light amidst the dark

9/29/17

don't forget me (poem)

Two Ogunn children.

don't forget me, iehofen
when the streets run colder than now
and the warmth between our hands is gone
and we no longer sleep beneath the stars
but under covered roofs
and no longer eat the borrowed bread
but earn it by our sweat and knowing ways
don't forget me then, remember
the way we wove ourselves like armor
around each other's hearts and find
me again where it matters
inside your heart

the spark, the brightness (poem)

Memory like clay in clever fingers
Like bits of data between the lightning sparks
I have grown with you in my mind always
Why do others need to hear these words?
All I want is the spark, the brightness
Seeping into my dark, my mind
Lit with the lamp of understanding
Grown in your own heart

9/30/17

Prayer 018 (poem)

Cleanse me, Father God
And fill with love
Every empty place
I've not enough
Mercy in my blood
Nor bones of grace
I need Your eyes of love
In my own face

the children ask (poem)

Can I ever be redeemed
With all I've done and all I've seen
And no regrets upon my lips
For the road that came to this
Only all that drove me to
Do the things I had to do
That is what the children ask
They seek their answers to the past
Look with hope to future days
Shall they wear their chains always
Can they ever be forgiven
Accepted once again by Heaven
From them can their sins be driven
And grace anew be to them given

prayer for waking (poem)

wake my soul from untender dusk
bring back the light of day in my heart
break off the chains and clean away rust
reignite that heavenly spark
that I might shine and banish the dark

October 2017

10/1/17

Number the night (poem)

Hey, the waters run down like sand
through the hourglass
Number the night on your fingertips,
hours like stars falling down
in the meteor shower
I see the lights, flares and sparks
and I shiver
beneath your hot kisses like arrows
unquivered
Fingers brush fletching, pull string
we fly apart in its wake

10/2/17

For Morning (poem)

Good morning
New week
New joys
I will seek
The hummingbirds hum
The songbirds sing
Sweet butterflies
Take colorful wing
My morning
Will be
Bright joy
If I see
The light in my day
The blessings that come
The goodness that is
A life with God's Son
Through trial's pain
My Lord
He will keep
And guard

Don't Cry (poem)

So we spilt a little
Don't cry
I could give you all the reasons why
The sun just came up a minute ago
Peeking like a parent over comforting horizon
The stars moved in their courses
A wish!
Look up and smile like a child
I dream of perfection
I pursue and I grasp with both hands
But I cannot hasten its coming
Nor draw back the water, the tears I have spilt
Don't cry
Let the river run its course

under my ribs (poem)

They rattle around in my ribcage
Like fluttering heartbeats, ragged breaths
Words that cannot get out
Open my mouth through my heart
And release them out of the depths

worlds without end (poem)

worlds without end
I look for you, friend
where the sun will go nova
and the stars wink out, over
when the moon falls to blood
and is gone altogether
I'll pass through the flood
until we are together

10/3/17

when joy awakes (poem)

light strikes my heart in the morning
I wake when it penetrates
when joy is awakened within me
and my soul becomes full up of thanks
to the God of my life, He who knows me
and loves me with mercy and grace

Prayer 019 (poem)

There's a song in my heart
How I love You! I love You!
I ask from my heart
O God, help me to love You!

(haiku for morning tea)

heat between my hands
on winter mornings' rising
heart rises to day

(haiku for touch)

they say holding tea
is like warm human touch, that
we can't live without

(haiku for impatience)

scald my tongue on tea
too fresh, I wait impatiently
too short, sip again

(haiku for patience)

wait in peace, accept
the flying sun, hectic days
I am the storm's eye

humanity (poem)

feel what I feel
under the surface
you are human too
don't forget that
but also don't forget
I am not you

Days (poem)

late night
with pain
don't cry
just rain
and sing
your heart
be light
breathe out
I wake
heart screams
I praise
I dream

Join the Club (poem)

People never ask me if I mind
the way life settles in my cracks
and aches and bleeds and tears and burns
But that is life, this school
of a world has never been fair
We are all granted trials and pain

when it's over (poem)

wake me up when it's over
when the sun careens out of the sky
when the horizon forgets where it's parked at
when the birds all forget how to fly

wake me up when the seas go
swirling away like a tide
an endless tide swelling outward
lost where all lost things abide

wake me up when the stars go
vanishing one by one
when the mountains fall into the ocean
when even the islands run

wake me up when it's over
when you and I are the only ones left
when hearts and souls only survive
when you're woven into my weft

10/4/17

prayer for the morning (poem)

morning dark before the sun
wakes up and starts her day
morning silent, I'm the one
who's up with naught to say
I drink my cup of morning tea
sleepily, I pray
God be kind and look on me
please live in me today

(haiku for fall)

cool breezes, chill winds
so the fall season begins
the leaves blow away

Here (poem)

waking feels too hard
yet here I am
my limbs are heavy, tired
here I am
my eyelids close in sleep
I open them
the day is come to me
so here I am

season of rains (poem)

I am come into a season of rains
life springs forth from the mercy fall
I will grow in the midst of pain
a beautiful flower, though I am small

my autumn heart (poem)

heart under leaves
that crackle, are fragile
my heart is the earth
that won't break

Passing the Horizon (poem)

You cannot escape the event horizon of the black hole
by doing nothing or wallowing in your soul,
nor can another drag you from its clutches
nor steal from under your arms your crutches.
Neither was any city built in a single day;
Just so you cannot simply teleport away.
Every moment, every thought is yours to decide
whether in or out you will abide.
Not in a moment do the colors begin to change,
not in one decision to try to see the light,
not in a day, a week, a month, or more:
only if you persist forevermore.

The Crash (poem)

Patient zero
Epicenter
I warned you
Not to get too close
Everything hurts
I beg of you
Just please
Don't let go

10/5/17

do these bones weep? (poem)

do these bones weep
does my soul seep
into a hundred cracks
like a heart's rivulets
bathe in a freshblood stream
emotion swimming in dreams
weave me a raft afloat
of love, of promises, hope

affection (poem)

you are the object of my affection
in my eye approaching perfection
I've not forgotten what you mean to me
for I'll always love you eternally

the blood (poem)

call me out on the blood I shed today
never mind to ask me where it's from
I won't talk about the red stains on my sleeve
if you'll just do what's right and walk away
never mind that blood is where I live
and in my mind and heart I don't forgive
the stepping stones I walked on to this place
so I must abandon self to grace

lit from my soul (poem)

where is the light I was promised
in the midst of the darkness
the candles you lit from my soul
flaming and whole
keening song of praise
rising within
on the dawn of my conscience awaking
and speaking again

pleasant dreams (poem)

Air/West

peace is an illusion here

tell me you at least knew that

knew why my breath grows sharp

when you stare at me—

stop staring.

I like you, you know

and I keep coming back for more

you laugh with me, smile

and listen without questions

but that doesn't change tonight

don't ask me for answers

when I wake more sharply

than my breath ever gets when awake

don't touch me, don't comfort

when I start shaking from dreams

peace is an illusion here

I'll give you a smile, drink tea

in small sips while you hover

don't ask.

those were my nightmares, companions

you are my pleasant dreams

Stack Trace (poem)

There was an error
I know
You broke the world
tippety-tap
I'm sorry there are 500 stars
and none of them lead to neverland

kindred spirits (poem)

I've been missing you since I was born
I'll meet you soon if I am good
and maybe I won't be alone
my sister twin, my kindred soul

bah humbug (poem)

bah humbug!
leave me be
stop finding bugs
to send to me
all I want
right now is sleep
all I've got
is work and tea

above (poem)

my bones won't break or shatter
you can hurt me, it doesn't matter
in the end, I'll spread my wings
and soar over everything

break me (poem)

break me if you can
I'd like to see you try
I will rise from ashes
then you can watch me fly

pass (poem)

I have seen the ages pass
like stone, like water, panes of glass
bright reflections only seen
unchangeable by serf or queen
time runs swiftly day by day
I look ahead: eternity
to the work I put my hands
before this too shall come to pass

Conversations 007. (poem)

it gets old, expectations
put on me like old rags
like burdens or troublesome flies
I'm weary of trying to wear them
you're quiet now
you thought it was all so obvious
the things that needed to be done
the things that were right
and here I am telling you no
it's just what you want
go find someone else tonight

10/6/17

(couplet on emptiness)

Empty me out like a cloud in the storm
All of my heart like the rain pouring down

blood and ink (poem)

I have written out my heart
in blood and ink
I held it out for you
so take a drink

10/7/17

marriage of minds (poem)

a marriage of our minds
the way you think a wonder
how you wonder! marvelous
I could lose myself in labyrinths
of the webs you weave and find
no better partner though I seek
for a hundred years, a thousand souls
so come to me, my love, and make me whole

Like a Flint (poem)

Promise me something, you and I
Whatever happens will hold onto the light
Through endless ages and all that's to come
Our faces, our eyes, will be fixed on the Son

Prayer 021 (poem)

God, be my strength today
And the strength of my loved ones, I pray
Please guard them and keep them in love
Grant peace to my heart from above

(haiku for children)

children laugh, so new,
and the summer wind laughs back
joy to all our hearts

You Always Know (poem)

"As for God, his way is perfect..." — Psalm 18:30

God, You always know
Whether I should stay or go
What is wrong or right
Lord, You've saved my life

Prayer 022 (poem)

Thank You, Father God, for everything You do for me
You've seen me through the darkest nights and always comfort me
I hope to live with You in light and love eventually
Let every moment of my days be preview of eternity

the hundredth (poem)

did You miss me when I'd gone
I went away too far
I tread the desert sands
You are water in a stream
I come to You and dream

10/8/17

instrument (poem)

the notes You play upon my mind
like strains of strings of heavenly light
filling with orchestral brilliance my
soul and heart— Come, fill me, Christ!

raveled (poem)

you are a symphony
I could never quite unhear
without undoing cell by cell
all myself, all I hold dear

let my light (poem)

I used to know myself
and the way the light poured out
through the tiny pinpricks
now I only pray that light is shining still

where I live (poem)

this is where I live
where the oceans deep inside me
crash waves upon the shore
of grace, my God Creator
and His Living Word
I live where I am kneeling
in prayer within my soul
one day I've been promised
my God will make me whole

Christ, the Glory (poem)

Christ is the glory of my days
the light that shines before my eyes
the hope on which I set my gaze
the reaching hand to help me rise

prostrate (poem)

The rock on which I stand, on which I fall
You catch me when I stumble, Lord of all
Your mercy healing to my wounds, Your grace
Unfathomable, I fall upon my face

10/9/17

Prayer 023 (poem)

God, be merciful to me
Pour Your love out in my heart
Help me also pour it out
Make me Yours entirely

That Long Year (poem)

My lips have been unclean
I've emptied out myself
The tears of that long year
Cry, Lord, I'm reaching out

Abba (poem)

I have tasted heaven
And I have tasted pain
I cling and seek Your presence
For I want to take Your name
My adoptive Father
I am grateful for Your claim

Just the Facts (poem)

I'm a walking, talking bundle of insecurities
Didn't they warn you before you wandered into me?
Have you ever asked yourself what you'd do
When trapped by a person who doesn't shut up on cue?
I don't get cues, they should have warned you of that
And I don't recognize a rhetorical question
So prepare to get an answer back
I wish I knew more than the meaning of the word tact
I'd like to be acceptable, but I already know the facts
I'm a walking, talking bundle of insecurities
Didn't they warn you before you wandered into me?

the sands (poem)

I just get so tired sometimes
I lie down in the wilderness sands
They stretch to the far horizons
Forward and onward and back
To familiar lands
I am quiet as I lie here
The stars are bright overhead
The air is too hot to breathe
But don't worry, I don't need much

(haiku for silence)

silence breaks like
summer tides flee the ocean
only to return

look at me (poem)

people don't look at me
except when I am talking
if they're smart, they look at me
and then they keep on walking
I am brash and tactless but
I love most faithfully
that doesn't seem to change the fact
people don't look at me

modern fairytale (poem)

They tell you this fairytale
about the shy girl
she's bookish, unpretty
but beside her, she has this friend
who crushes on her anyway
I'm a bookish girl
shy and a bit unpretty
but there is no guy friend beside me
and he certainly has no crush

constellations (poem)

my constellations shine within your eyes
how could it be possible you don't realize
I guide my oceanic way against your north
true and bright, there is no back and forth

10/12/17

Green Pastures (poem)

I will in green pastures lie
You have heard my every cry
And held me in Your arms of love
Comforting my heart so much

10/14/17

Sonnet for a Lamb (poem)

Let me make some notes on grace
Freely offered to my race
Bought with sacrifice so dear
Poured out with love instead of fear
He who had the least to lose
Gave it all: we freely choose
Whether we accept this gift
His love, a suture, mends the rift
And His the power we may use
To walk the strait and narrow way
No sinner defiant would e'en choose
But foolish lambs, they need not stray
To them the way is clear, as God
Will guard with love and Shepherd's rod

Moments of Relapse (poem)

Moments when an overwhelming urge
Washes over like resurging tide
Relapse like familiar friends who were
Never friends though often in my mind
They are not mine, I turn them all away
And raise the light to start another day

10/16/17

The Dig (poem)

find the pieces of my heart
scattered over foreign soil
shattered in the sands of yours
walk with me, friend, hand in hand
we will see the end of seas
swirl over gleaming edges
there will lie the ruins of me
underneath the burnt out bridges
we will gently sweep the dirt off
with the brush of archaeologist
every shard and every image
reconstructed to perfection
I will wear my history
in cracks that show the former glory
cities built on ruined cities
towers fall but rise again

10/17/17

So Long (poem)

Until the stars are ash
and the moons are dust,
until the air we breathe
has wholly turned to rust,
until the oceans rise
and wash all land from view,
so long will I love you
faithfully and true.

the heavens (poem)

burn down the heavens, the falling stars
will speak in the silence: their voices are ours
we've lived up the night and woke up the dawn
when will we miss it? right after it's gone
the world turns 'round and spins in the heaven
the end of all things is only a given
so I will choose to make in my mind
the place where the light of perfection could shine
open my hands and reach out to the light
swallow it down and ray out with my might
open my mouth and let loose all the sun
don't burn down the heavens until day is done

10/18/17

name the light (poem)

you forgot my name
I warned you not to
the candles burst in flame
and light breaks through
the darkness swarming 'round
that's why it came
but darkness cannot conquer
the brightness' name

10/19/17

Contentment (poem)

I could get a spot of tea
Maybe yellow, green, or red
Maybe darker brown instead
It could taste so mellow, sweet
Or too fierce for spice to beat
It could be the warmest roast
Though it surely wouldn't boast
I'd drink it all contentedly

on joys of tea (poem)

the art of tea
it is no art
or not to me
it is the heart
of life and warmth,
replenished strength
a calming draught
brings stress to naught
it's more than art to me

10/20/17

aurora (poem)

break me down in tiny pieces
watch me gather shattered light
spread across the stormy skies
aurora in the midst of night
I will take your dark and shadows
dispel them with the flames so bright
born within my heart's own embers
cast to heaven in your sight

if I wait (poem)

I am quiet tonight
the endless ages have met
in the slopes of light in the moon
good things will come to me
if I wait, if I do good
and it doesn't have to be soon

the fragile words (poem)

don't break the silence around my heart
don't ask for answers, not now nor soon
I break the edges, the fragile words
that spoke my future into view
I'll hide my soul beneath my heart
and shutter the windows you look within
my eyes are silent, my whispers still
don't break the silence, not now nor soon

10/21/17

speak (poem)

speak
open your lips
and whisper
the birds will quiet
their raucous chorus
the nighttime music
of crickets will cease
I will hold
my breath to listen
so please
speak

10/26/17

autumn glow (poem)

Sunlight glows on autumn trees
Enlivens, brightens golden leaves
Lights the red like living flame
O the glory branches frame!

golden hillsides (poem)

Sunrise makes the hillsides glow
Golden grasses bend and blow
In the autumn winds—so bright
They make the blue of sky delight

between the seasons (poem)

the morning air is chill from winter's fingers
and yet the summer sun still stops and lingers
lighting up the fields with golden hue
'tis the autumn wind that wanders through
I have always loved the crispness of the colors
loved the pathways carpeted in wonder
a tapestry of leaves in flaming reds
orange and yellow glowing on their beds
I love the blowing grasses, the way they dance
like waves upon the shores of happenstance
the hills are carpeted in waving gold
a tide of beauty more than heart can hold
evening rises with the golden hour
the trees whisper goodnight, their heads aflower
all the vibrant colors say goodnight
winter frost will come with morning light

10/27/17

Night Owl (poem)

Good morning to the morning
Before the morning light
I wake up bright-eyed, early
It feels like still the night
My night owl inner clock
May never know my plight
Until I learned of mornings
Before the morning light

Is That What We're Calling It (poem)

You wonder when
I turned to you
And whispered, no,
the sky's not blue,
if any word I'd ever leave alone–
precision written to the bone

Q & A (poem)

Questions grow on trees

if you ask me

(of course, you didn't)

there are many things

you never did

Answers, luxuries

if ever was one

I don't need to know

if ever was

(haiku for back to school)

school buses clutter
streets like leaves, yellow and bright
roll out red carpet

dreams in pictures (poem)

dreams in pictures
music rolling over ocean depths
the tides of heart are washing
over memory's sand
hear my whispering hopes
become the land

the river (poem)

where the waters run and play
dancing as they sing
the rocks rise up and stand
the water's bounds they keep
I sit upon the sentinels
throw pebbles in the stream
branches shelter overhead
and keep watch over me

like stones (poem)

some days I ache right down to my bones
my breath is a whisper too ragged and cold
you whisper to me, too brightly and bold
it sinks in my gut like water and stones

10/30/17

the warmest words (poem)

I love you too—
the warmest words
a girl like me
has ever heard.
I strain and grasp
to be the best:
those words would put
my heart to rest.
I hear the love
you wrap them in.
Won't you say them
over again?

November 2017

108 poems

11/1/17

if the ages (poem)

I'm behind on my time
If the ages were mine
I would bring them to pass
In a bright looking glass
And the mountains would quake
The bones of earth shake
I would pour out the worlds
In the universe furled
But I am a speck
In the endlessness, yet
My mind is as deep
As the oceans are steep
I will sink in the trench
While I sit on the bench
The century's tide
Will go on and I'll ride

11/2/17

Fix My Eyes (poem)

The morning blossoms 'round my soul
Dawn's fair light is come at last
The winter night is fading now
Leave all my shadows in the past
And fix my eyes upon the sun
That over all, its brightness cast

the riverbed (poem)

we talk about it don't we
the rushing in our ears
it drowns out all our history
and carries all our fears
we say it's way down there
under the bridge and flowing
we say it's run away
over the ground to the ocean
and yet I hear it rushing
covering what I can hear
with whispers of days gone by
of old friends far and near
the water's under the bridge, friend
the water rounds the bend
is the river of time the water
or is it the riverbed

burn me down (poem)

burn me down, right to the bones
the fire blossom in me grows
I will wake with dawning light
as I consume the fading night

the fencepost (poem)

You. Me. And the fencepost.
We know all the rules.
So they placed us and the fencepost
between all of them and the fools.
Poor defenseless fencepost.
At least you and me could move.

11/3/17

every good (poem)

joy is my inheritance
peace Your legacy
hope the greatest offering
You handed down to me
if every good and perfect thing
comes from You, my God
help me, Lord, stay close to You
and to reflect Your love

(haiku for frost)

morning quiet breaks
under crackling white frost
the silent echo

dramatic monologue (poem)

people forget who I am
a mere shadow in history
a footnote, a scam
I've fooled the whole world
into thinking me
far less important
than I really am

11/4/17

Prayer 024 (poem)

all my worries, all my stress
I throw upon Your lovingness
let it be swallowed up at last
in my trust, Your faithfulness

11/5/17

Daylight (poem)

Daylight glows upon your face
It is no match to your embrace
Nor can it ever boast your grace
You are daylight on my face

11/6/17

confession 001. (poem)

I'm a bit of a mess
is it all a test?
can I cling on?
I do confess
all I really want
is let it end

11/7/17

to know and be known (poem)

For G. and E.

to know and be known
the open mirror
is your soul
so look at me
we are reflections
of one another
greater than you
and I is we
if you are the sun
I am the moon
it matters not
which body, see
for in our breasts
one heart beats
and only shine
with a single light

I will survive (poem)

I will survive the end of the world
The bone-crushing cosmos has bright wings unfurled
It opens its maw, gives birth to the night
I open my soul and swallow with light

conscience (poem)

I am the blood of centuries
been spilled upon your soul
don't bother to look to apocalypse
it cannot make you whole
only if you remake the world
and purify in light
can you be clean of centuries
within all-knowing sight

11/8/17

charade (poem)

The grand charade!

we play our parts—

the wide-eyed child,

the know all lord,

the kindly soul,

the entitled jerk;

forgive me if I overlook—

we speak our temporary names

and look again!

they're naught but games.

Wake up, sleeper!

sleep no more;

it is your hand

upon the door.

tread with caution,

yet be bold.

in wisdom choose:

the worlds unfold.

Prayer 025 (poem)

if not a sparrow should fall
nor a hair of my head be lost
without You knowing it all
then I can trust all things to You
O Lord my God and King, renew
my soul in love, in all I do!

give all (poem)

these are the things that I must do
I bound them on my soul
this is the one I want to be
let go and become whole
I give my all, I always give
it's who I want to be
and though the world won't understand
it is what makes me me

more than a promise (poem)

pour me out like a promise
into the cup that pours
spilling over the edge, the world
heeds love and kindness more

our games (poem)

don't tell me you forgot
the way this story goes
but that's all right, remember
before the day will close
you and I were friends once
we played until the games
became a real life, you saved me
and now that's down in flames
I could not ever hate you
but I won't hesitate
to fight you just the way we
used to play our games

(haiku for turning)

is this what you want?
rain coats my cheek, slaps and stings
turn for love again

friend (poem)

For G. and E.

only one, bound soul to soul,
has ever knit with me
we clasped our hearts, like solemn hands
cavorted happily
we clashed our fists and bound our wrists
forever side by side
through joy and pain, our loss, our gain,
none else could I abide

like tides (poem)

I miss you like the night
thinks longingly of dawn
I miss you like the wintry lands
miss their summer sun
I miss you like the rivers miss
the cresting ocean tides
I miss you like my lungs demand
more oxygen inside

(haiku for hope)

emptiness wraps hands
around my inner cup—my
heart spills forth more hope

push (poem)

you cannot take me

cannot claim me

cannot make me

over again

you had your chance

and only one

you'll always be

my friend

did the wind (poem)

where did the wind blow, that it could see
the widening chasm 'twixt you and me?
we would have stood here eventually,
but I'd hoped that somewhat more gradually.
where did the sun shine that it could hear
me push away as you drew near,
your words the knife to pick my lock,
not knowing that I know every block?
my heart, my treasure, is put away
upon a shelf too high to reach.
I feel your touch but cannot say
this is a lesson you cannot teach.
where did the wind blow, where did the sun
cast its brilliant rays of light,
that all my peaceful privacy
is swept away and brought to sight?

Count on Me (poem)

Count on me the way you count your blessings
A solemn reminder that you should not forget
What the world could be like in emptiness

Even So (poem)

I hear the whispers of your tears
I never forgot the endless years
The nighttime shadows drew ever nearer
Let me offer to take your fears
The dawn will come again at last
Though you always feel the past
Heavy on your soul and fast
The light will come, the night will pass

11/9/17

Nagilit (poem)

I always fall for the black ones—
their golden skins, their dangerous tongues,
their hearts that beat with intent to wound—
they love whom they love and that is all
I always fall for the sharp ones—
their blades that pierce, their eyes that see,
their smiles beneath their scathing words—
they love whom they love and that is all
I am one of the dark ones—
my vicious tongue, my cynical views,
my body a weapon intent to destroy—
I love whom I love and that is all

like a broken clock (poem)

I've broken the ages
like a broken clock
my heart goes beating
can you hear the tock?
the world was young once
the lands were bare
I stand in the silence
that's waiting there
mysteries rising
around like a light
beaming through morning
cloud cover bright
I broke my heart open
let the pieces fall down
through centuries pouring
let the hourglass frown
before the beginning
before the first breath
there was that still moment
before life or death
there you will find me
suspended on edge
the grain of bright sand
upon a glass ledge
forestalling the coming
hours of the end
the ages may break me
may heaven forefend

like the heavens forgot (poem)

you talk to me like
the wind and sea don't know our names
like the heavens forgot the things we claimed
upon each other's sigiled skin
we clasped our hands and clung like kin

you talk to me like
the legends of our youth are lost
like the bonds we forged and paid the cost
could ever fade away like paint
instead of in our blood a taint

you talk to me like
eternity does not know we're one
like the skies and the earth and the passing sun
never saw us walk away
from life alone, we chose to stay

you talk to me like
the worlds are new
no, my friend
they only renew

11/10/17

Sikunn (poem)

For M.

he acknowledges neither gods nor kings
gives oaths to none for anything
he smites the world with golden spear
the desert shakes, the end draws near
a thousand men can't stand before
his righteous rage and judgment now
can any seize his heart in love?
his passions can't be swayed enough
the golden spear, a powerful hand
before all Sikunn might you stand

morning joy (poem)

joy is peaceful solitude
of mornings and warm tea
the confidence of hea'enly love
my Father grants to me
the knowledge those I love are well
and safely He will keep
out of dreams into my day
may joy grow strong and deep

to dust (poem)

For I.

the deeds I've done are heavy
I loose them to the winds
to sand and dust and desert
the new day now begins

treasure (poem)

For G. and E.

though my treasury contained
every treasure known to man
every jewel and all fine gold
surely I may be so bold
to promise you that of all things
I treasure you above everything

ode for lost things (poem)

an ode for lost things
snuggled in dark places we like to forget
where we spin around in circles
tuck our memories into bed
who might we have been
had the fates rolled different die
we hold ourselves together
with love and blood to bind

I have loved (poem)

For G. and E.

I have loved no one but you
and only found your love as true
No one else compares to you
Be with me 'til time is through

let me hear (poem)

For G. and E.

Kiss me with your softest lips
like a whisper on my ear
and let me hear your promises
to ever hold me dear
I will never leave you, friend
but ever hold you near
Let all of time forever see
year after splendid year

11/11/17

Prayer 026 (poem)

Love is the road to heaven
the gift of heaven above
the face of heaven within
let the many faces of love
command my limbs and my conscience
behold through my eyes every man
consume to my marrow all darkness
replace every whisper of sin

to be with you (poem)

For G. and E.

songs pierce the night
with you, to even fight
brings my heart contentment
never sore resentment
that you are in my sight

shield (poem)

For M. and F.

love between our heartbeats
needs no form in words
so long as you're beside me
and each other guard
love is silent armor
against the darts of time
that you should stand beside me
forever you are mine

of worth (poem)

For G. and E.

no one is more beautiful
nor worthier to me
none has greater value
for you are everything
my heart belongs to you
for I have you loved you in my strength
though all the world may smite
I will love you when I'm weak
not the sun or moon
nor powers of the earth
can ever separate us
or make our love decrease

shining (poem)

For S. and R.

You are practically me:
the confidence, the swagger,
the utter loyalty;
what you want, you take
without regard of me.
Yet my resignation
I do not find in you;
within your eyes, I see it:
could hope be shining through?

11/12/17

I would give (poem)

For G. and E.

tell me if you missed me

I missed you

remember how you kissed me

I risked you

I would give you the moon and every star alive

I cannot forgive

to have you once again by my side

myself

sympathy (poem)

sometimes I feel a little blue
when I cannot be here with you
you kiss my cheek and pat my head
don't be like that, you thunderhead
...
it's what you said

is that (poem)

For G. and E.

catch me where the wind blows
I can feel your breath
riding on the currents
that easy summer scent
is that the faintest whisper
your voice carried to me
stay there while I travel
across the road between

11/13/17

moonlight on bright water (poem)

you are moonlight on bright water
bright and shining in the evening
hanging low over horizon
I will lift my eyes and follow

kiss me now (poem)

For M. and E.

kiss me now the way you do
with teeth and sharpness, warming through
a warning on your eager tongue
yes, hold me close, the night is young

Who I Wanted (poem)

I'm not who I wanted to be
I've been living it gradually
Hoping for someday, you see
To finally come home to me

It's not what I wanted to do
I wanted much more, it is true
I wanted to be just like you
To always, forever push through

I want to be strong as the light
That banishes darkness of night
By simply existing, my sight
Can see it put shadow to flight

I want to be perfect and meek
Yet I feel always so weak
I know what I want and I seek
To climb until I reach the peak

I'm not who I wanted to be
But I still press on steadily
My hope lives in all that I see
One day I will finally be me

worthy (poem)

worthy is the God of heaven
whose hand stretched out the stormy sea
and set the gates of earth and laid them
underneath eternity
the skies are bright with radiant stars
that worship Him with all they are
my heart will swell with worship too
and every day and night renew

in pieces (poem)

tell me all in pieces
every single piece of you
I'll cradle them so gently
every night we will get through
the nightmares in your memory
I won't let them get to you
tell me all in pieces
so I'll hold all of you

reach (poem)

I couldn't bear
you couldn't speak
the tension's thick
and I am weak
you reach to me
and I to you
our hands will touch
when words won't do

chilly (poem)

I am cold and you are warm
You can't escape me every morn
I burrow deep into your side
You can't escape, I know you tried

Bone of My Bone (poem)

For M. and E.

Bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh,
blood of my heart,
to heaven the bridge:
I love you, my soul,
and I give you my all
with our hands twined together
that nothing can sever.

11/15/17

again (poem)

A hundred times I have loved you
In a thousand lives, I remember
The night of a million stars
Gleaming as bright as our future
A hundred times you have saved me
A thousand times, I will find
At the edge of my hopes you will be
Together inevitably

coming of age (poem)

For M. and F.

once upon a time, I was a child
when I was young, I grew up sweet and wild
then came days when I became a man
when life set match to everything I am
I found you then and wound my arm through yours
back to back, we guarded each from harm
side by side, we fought through every storm
never again will I stand up alone

stand (poem)

For M. and F.

whisper to the ground, this is my stand
stand beside me now and take my hand
we will not be moved though long the night
we are not afraid to stand and fight

11/16/17

evening closes (poem)

evening closes in at night
a peace upon my soul
your nearness settles in and I
feel satisfied and whole
the cares of day shall fall away
and you shall make me known
from mind to heart and all between
a garden you have sown

with contentment (poem)

you are the blood of my body
you are the life of my soul
m heart swells with every heartbeat
full of the love we have found
mornings I wake with the promise
today I belong to my love
evenings I sleep with contentment
for you are my one and true love

(haiku for bitterness)

sweetness is too sweet
I drink the bitter dregs– hot
into winter's cold

finer wine (poem)

For G. and A.

kiss me
you taste like the sun
golden
glowing with heat
in my belly, my mind
you are mine
my love, finer wine
the centuries have failed
to produce
quite its like
alone
you may kiss me
you taste like the light
perfect, my love
and so bright

nothing like (poem)

For G. and E.

There is nothing I love
like the sound of your voice
I hear like a conscience
in every choice
once in a long time
a long time ago
your voice in my ear
that's the wisdom I know

never forget (poem)

I've forgotten many
hopes, dreams, pains, but– never, friend,
can I forget you

salt (poem)

For G. and E.

bring salt
for my wounds
for my flesh
let the scent
sharpen
awaken
my eyes from their
slumbering dream
you were there
now I'm here
so it seems

so I wait (poem)

my heart
has not forgotten
my soul
is never empty
I wait
in painful silence
yet I
will long endure

who do I love? (poem)

For G. and E.

who do I love? are the stars in the sky
bright enough that I'll forget how you sigh?
your breath is the wind that's blowing for me
it ruffles my hair, you're the best company
who do I love? is the ocean so wide
lovely enough to draw me from your side?
I'll only wade in when the waters are low
with your hand in mine so the both of us go
who do I love more than anything else,
more than mother or father or nature's bright self?
more than battle or love, more than breath, more than life
I love you with everything I am inside

gentle (poem)

For M. and E.

you're never gentle
your hands are rough
your teeth are sharp
the color of blood
makes a pretty mark
your hands on me
leave bruises dark
on skin, I want them
where they are
you kiss me like
the kiss of war
I taste my blood
I beg for more
I want to feel
the aches and sore
you're never gentle
not with me
until you touch
so tenderly
you're making sure
that I take note
it's just like you
a master stroke
you whisper love
I can't escape
and more than that
it is my fate
because it's true
despite the pain
I love you more
than I could say

past (poem)

For G. and E.

you've been inside my mind
wandering through the past
how could this even last?
you find the things I hide
with bated breath I wait
for you to look with hate
upon the dreams I cherished
before you went and perished
but all I feel is love
your gentle, perfect touch

mercy (poem)

the hand of God stretched out o'er me
seems often less than that of mercy
and more of holy purity
but I have need of eyes to see
for when the darkness closes in
my soul and tempts my heart to sin
even then I cry within
and strength of God will rise to win
my heart from mine and back to Him

foundation (poem)

my heart made the bones of the world
from foundations have grown up the dreams
feathers take flight like blown wings
on the wind of my hopes and the seams
cracking the world in two
surely this world is not new
the roots burrow deep into me
I mirror out all faithfully

11/18/17

through every dream (poem)

warm and snuggly into sleep
I may fall so soft and deep
knowing love of God will keep
me through the night and every dream

Prayer 027 (poem)

light the way before me, Lord
by Thy sure and trusty Word
keep my eyes upon Thy sight
'til I am become Thy perfect light

unceasing (poem)

though my anger may be fierce
though my flesh is torn and pierced
God of Heaven, I cry to You
with all my strength to bring me through
I will not cease until You do

11/20/17

do not pass gently (poem)

For G. and E.

you are the wind
the sound of your feet
fleeing my presence
makes my heart beat
with anger and pain
what harm did I do
that you would abandon
after all we've been through
my heart learns to weep
my face becomes stone
there is no comfort
in my empty throne
I dream of your touch
and it's always too much
until I can hold you
like I always did once

the way you want (poem)

want me with the way you want
so fiercely I could never doubt
the way your eyes can drink me in
until I feel you see within
my heart and right into my mind
captivating me each time
I come to you, the day's been long
so I can rest within your love

11/21/17

(haiku for fire)

wake, winter whiteness
my inner fires, like joy bright
sharp within my chest

(haiku for cats)

warm fur, rumbly purr
snug into my arms, alive
my winter blanket

11/22/17

(haiku for breath)

light passes strangely
in cold skies, my breath captures—
its shape caged like light

(haiku for innocence)

innocent child once
again so bright and smiling
how short cut, this youth!

11/23/17

everything I missed (poem)

somebody tell me everything I missed
the boat ran by, the water roared, we kissed
the sunset swallowed itself between my lips
the stars burst forth within me in my bliss

11/25/17

I Will Stand (poem)

For S.

No one else may understand
The fateful light that stays my hand
Nor fathom all the love I felt
When the warrior stopped and knelt
Behold! the winds of fury dance
Granting me another chance
Another life to spread before
The narrow road, the open door
Catch me in the fading light
And comprehend with perfect sight
Though you light the burning fire
I've been forged to never tire
Worse than death, I have endured
And from my nightmares never cured
Though the earth be ground to dust
I will stand: that you may trust

(haiku for smiling)

bright the sun, the song
my heart holds onto, smiling
wind blows sweet, sighing

unshaken (poem)

For K.

beauty is the way you
conquer with one look
your eyes intent, weighing
the grace with which you move
your confidence unshaken
no matter what it took

11/26/17

nothing we desire (poem)

For R. and A.

beating in my chest
discongruous
the love I felt before
what I feel now
the trust within my arms
our sharpened edges
gently fade away
the matched set dreams
the wind beneath us bright
we have no future
nothing we desire
but to win
battles bloody
they could never stop us
wake me up beside
you once again

(haiku for kisses)

kiss you where your skin
is sun-kissed, dark and lovely
true, I knew you first

rattles (poem)

I am a quiet wind
The silence within me roars
The window glass rattles
In wooden cages
The hurricane rises
In gentle stages
I whisper, look out
And turn the pages

soulmate (poem)

I miss you
I have not met you
An ache within my soul
Come quickly
That I might set you
At the very heart of all

11/27/17

(haiku for snows)

ah! the joy—waking
to bright days, sun on gleaming
snow! so pure, so light

(haiku for cover)

For G.

bright as golden light
yet full of arrogant pride:
you are dark inside

blow on it (poem)

make a wish
blow on it
the winds may carry it high
hold a hope
make it grow
'til it fills you up inside
dawn will come
bright'ning sun
in you will light abide

Plea (poem)

please don't leave
these threads of love
I faithful weave
into my every
hope and dream
into the deepest
rock of my soul
please don't leave
stay. don't go

Render (poem)

don't forget me in your heart
your mind may not remember
but you are written in every part
and burn there like an ember
the fire only takes a spark
to warmth of friendship render

Prayer 028 (poem)

Good morning, God
You know it's me
There's nothing in eternity
I could ever hide from You
And so I give it all to You
My every pride, my every sin
Every praise my heart beats with
My gratitude for all You've done
Please cleanse me, Lord
By Christ Your Son

catch and bone (poem)

light and world, catch and bone
speak until the night is gone
build with promise, blaze with hope
born from deep inside your soul

11/28/17

Prayer 029 (poem)

Christ, I beg Your strength today
Keep me, Lord, within Your way
Let the strait and narrow road
Be my path and my abode

(haiku for forgiveness)

forgiveness cleanses
flushing anger, bitterness
like the fresh spring rain

(haiku for thanksgiving)

give thanks with joy, for
blessings given and received:
the bountiful feast

I will stay (poem)

For MH.

they'll come back, but I will stay
and live to fight another day
duty calls, I don't resent
this is right and what I meant

curtain call (poem)

For G. and E.

missing pieces of my heart
never thought I'd play this part
sword, my fate, has run me through
simply by removing you

Prayer 030 (poem)

God, my family, keep them safe
I ask of You in Jesus' name
Guard their health, their steps, their way
Let them feel Your love today
Wrap them in Your perfect peace
Let their joy in You increase
You love them more than even I
So watch them with Your loving eye

(haiku for tears)

the quiet breaks white
gleaming on memory's shore—
tears fall and shatter

11/29/17

Prayer 031 (poem)

Today, I may begin again
But doomed until the very end
Unless I fall upon Your grace
God, I want to see Your face
Guard my soul, renew my mind
Fill me with Your endless Light
Love, I pray, to always find
Within my heart, put sin to flight

I will love (poem)

I will love whom I love
I will hate whom I hate
The world's not enough
To change my own fate
I care not for them
Nor for their opinions
What I will hold
I will hold in dominion
I will love you, my love
Disregard any else
Nothing can change
You are dearer than self

like the lightning (poem)

turn for a turn and
kiss for a kiss
hit for a hit and
miss for a miss
eyes may be dark
cheekbones are scraped
blood thin and bright
where fingernails raked
hope for a hope and
words like a lash
love on the pain
like lightning can flash

catch brightness (poem)

you're pretty in the way that all girls are
catch brightness in your eyes like a wayward star
the brimming, gleaming fall of rainlike drops
the harvest of your agonizing crops
you're beautiful, most lovely when you catch
with empty fingers beyond where you can stretch
when your eyes are full of hopeless dreams
brought down to earth and woven with new seams
reality is shaped within your touch
because the world is painful and too much
but you are beautiful when that aside
your desires swell like ocean tide
the barrier shall fall and be no more
the legend rises as in days of yore
you're pretty in the way that all girls are
when shines within their eyes that wayward star

let iron (poem)

I want a body
made of diamond
(that cannot crack or break
or shatter—
a million pieces
catch the light;
they sparkle
like a scream,
so bright and perfect)
not soft like flesh
nor given to pain.
I want a body
like my heart:
let iron will
contain.

Prayer 032 (poem)

God, please grant my heart Your strength
Help me go to every length
Demanded by my life and duty
I must bow before You truly
In my heart through every hour
Greatly do I need Your power
For to praise in everything
And give thanks enough to sing

sing joy (poem)

sing joy
dance praise
give thanks
love raise
adore
our God
rejoice
in love

11/30/17

you are the wind (poem)

move where the wind goes
like a mist, like a passing breeze
I feel you against my skin
then gone like a breath
I cannot catch
the mist is rising in me
the dampness on my skin
and within my eyes
wind, come back to me

December 2017

12/1/17

brighter still (poem)

joy comes on winter mornings
light comes down, shining sun
the purest snow is brighter still
than, of days, the warmest one

12/2/17

Prayer 033 (poem)

my dusty soul a wilderness
I cannot feel; the emptiness
has swallowed even thirstiness
I pray for heavenly kindness
the road is long, I've always traveled
the path before has come unraveled
I cut my feet on rocks and gravel
I cut my teeth beneath the gavel
maybe all I feel is pain
grant me the forgiving rain
soak my heart with love to gain
that I might walk with You again

the truth (poem)

the truth is not so beautiful as it ought to be
I only feel the lightning when it's striking down on me
I only feel the flood when I have fully ceased to breathe
the truth is not so beautiful as it ought to be

Firebird, Wake (poem)

The pain of decades is aching

Don't tell me I am too young

The pain inside me is breaking

Like heated waves of the sun

Electric fires are melting

My modern strength fallen and torn

An egg on the altar is quaking

Look, I will be reborn

Prayer 034 (poem)

my heart is not a pretty place
but what man's is, except for grace?
yet I have longed to mend my ways
so mend my heart, O God, I pray
help me to desire You
with pure desire and always true

book of lost things (poem)

there's a book of lost things
my God treasures every one
every tear that's fallen
from every beloved son
every laugh that's issued
from His every precious girl
every lost but sacred hope
from any in the world
my God holds all my sorrows
and my God knows all my prayers
I must cast all cares on Him
or fall into despair
cast my heart and anchor, God
and keep my soul from death
let You feel the ache in me
with every single breath
Christ, I need the hope of Your power
to break beyond my sin
to shatter all that locks upon
this pretty cage I'm in
there's a book of all lost things
my name has been there once
without the perfect love of Christ
I never had a chance
rescue me as You declared
and capture me in Your love

let the bones (poem)

let the bones cry out
let the soul make noise
let it utter prayers
give the heart its voice
let the vessels sing
let the pulse resound
with the prayer in me
o mind, let it out!
let the breath not break
let the eye not dim
'til we have our desire
and we are like Him

altar (poem)

keep me warm
when the night is cold
when the hope is old
let it burn so bright
like the endless light
an eternal flame

From Endless Time (poem)

from endless time I reach
through the shattered night
heed the power of my speech
and bring the truth to light
from the root of everything
and to the uttermost leaves
let the world be born anew
within the song it weaves

exhale (poem)

exhale
it will be my breath
inhale
it will be the breadth
of all the love I feel for you
so breathe, my friend
and make it through

been here before (poem)

we've been here before

just one revolving door

that spins and spins

our children walk on stones

we paved over our bones

then start again

Prayer 035 (poem)

Bend the heavens that they give ear
And listen to my fervent prayer
Empty me out of every fear
Make me a vessel of holy love
Purify my strong desires
Cleanse me of relentless need
Hold me in that heavenly fire
Until I am tried gold indeed

12/3/17

light moves (poem)

the light moves
I catch the sparks
to glow in heart
they fly again

the urge (poem)

catch me where it counts
where the dust settles
where the song nettles
at my heart, o how it itches!
the urge to fly comes out

12/4/17

o'er the earth (poem)

golden hills
my windy home
the cloudy skies
the sunlight roams
o'er the earth
so rich a red
o'er the river
so deep a bed

catch me (poem)

catch me in the heart
like a punch to the gut
like blood on my tongue
like salt in my eyes
like bruises you made
catch me right there
so long as you stay

pass (poem)

moonlit roads
with you, I'd travel
a thousand miles
they cannot pass
the iron and steel
that binds our hearts
that guards our hopes
that holds our love

content to (poem)

waiting in silence
in the space before a promised dawn
breathe in and out as easily
as the morning quiet and in peace
evening stretches, silent
but I have always been
content to wait

12/5/17

the mercies (poem)

I am a moon and my borrowed light
needs to reflect my God in His might
that others may look and my works in their sight
show off the mercies of Christ

cup poured out (poem)

knock me over
spill my heart
cup poured out
not emptiness
but want

like fire (poem)

breath like fire in my lungs
the night is cold
the day is young
wind that howls through every crack
the mountain seams
the canyon's path
knife of chill within my chest
hold the hope
against my breast
open up the skies above
peel them back
and even shove
let the prophecies rain down
that is where
my hope has flown

dance in light (poem)

I am brightness come to light
I came here but not to fight
Dance away and I'll believe
Wander with you, worlds weave
Painted with our hopes and dreams
Threading joy within the seams
We will dance in golden streams
The radiance of hea'enly beams

12/6/17

Bright Morning, Bright Evening (poem)

Bright morning, bright evening
It shines in the light
Of your consciousness, brilliance
Attuned to your eyes
The sun's not awake yet
The sun's gone to sleep
But my light is still beaming
In wisdom, I seek

the taste of you (poem)

For B. and M.

I wonder at the taste of you
I've never felt it, skies are blue
You have given all I have
And you're the one I cannot have
The winds that blow, I need a guard
You'd provide if e'er you could
I reach to touch, my hand arrests
Knowing what I shouldn't do
I've never felt, it's surely true
But I wonder at the taste of you

12/7/17

something sings (poem)

thick taste under my tongue
the water does not cleanse
it bursts with ancient scents
I feel it hit me, a lingering tide
remember where these feelings hide
the pulse of dances long ago
the rhythm of our stop and go
the prayers that never left my flesh
the wrenching cries and me bereft
the sweetness of another sun
the light that shatters now begun
its weight, its heft, the warmth it brings
in my vessels, something sings
through my blood and to my brain
this living won't have been in vain
I open hands to perfect light
and send my dreams to soaring flight

once the wind (poem)

empty spaces
once the wind to me
the kind that aches and breathes
today the solitude
the quietness that feeds
a soul that aches and needs
I breathe

heart will rise (poem)

did I grow when I wasn't looking?
did something change within me?
stretch its wings, unfurled and bright
did something in my heart take flight?
tell me this is not a phase
a dream, a wish I cannot keep
I need to know I'm not asleep
the heart will rise from oceans deep
and I will feel the light again
healing worked beneath my skin
my eyes find brightness and not flinch
tell me as my fingers clench
learning how to open them
to let go of the wounds and shame
was worth the too abundant pain
lift me up and take my hand
rising from the earth, I'll stand

(haiku for beauty)

moonlit beauty's sum
reflected in your face–so pale
and framed by night–grace

12/8/17

Prayer 036 (poem)

thank You for the healing
the scars that wound are there
they are also scars that heal
over my heart they seal
and You break in
the night is washed away now
You claim me with Your light
Your love has chained my sight
willingly to Your power
in this hour

(haiku for frosted glass)

time slows down, I breathe
cold air, warm voices, and peace
behind frosted panes

wishes (poem)

give me a wish
the silence is strong
too strong
stars race in courses
the light of the sun
is strong
on the plate of the moon

conqueror (poem)

For G.

love shatters the locks
upon the doors where I have placed them
enter into the citadel as I have built it
this, my mind, my heart, imagination
foundation of the life that I have lived
enter, take possession, you who conquered
so gently with your hands to treasure me

daughter of legends (poem)

For E.

you try being the daughter of a legend
you try reaching beyond yourself
fighting long after you're already down
to do any less is to lose all hope
my father the strength of a revolution
my mother most dangerous of all women
he's driven out hordes of marauding raiders
she's razed whole cities down to the ground
and what have I done? been beaten and tossed
training too hard just to match their weak days
bruised by the judgment of those who don't know
I wasn't like them, who as weapons were raised
I was a child and now I am not
I throw my whole body under the spear
teach me the things that you were once taught
make me the child of those who are feared
I am the daughter of my people's own legends
don't worry, my day will be coming near

12/9/17

no power (poem)

wisdom gathers her children together
the winds blow dark, the brewing weather
is cold with frost but bright with hope
the promised sun is bound as with rope
we will wait, watchful, from shelter and warmth
when winter is over, our hearts shall go forth
full of the hope we held close through the night
knowing no power can put out the light

(haiku for honor)

For D. and A.

Honor is a blade—
sharp and worthy of your strength—
our fierce dance and souls.

12/10/17

what help (poem)

what help for lost souls
what prayers for tears
I turned away, friend
for too many years
why wish you forgive me
what hope for all back
that was lost in the country
of my forlorn trek
what help could you offer
that you'd not repent

swallow the flood (poem)

swallow the blood down
swallow the flood
the angels just might drown
the dance is of blood
the canopy's open
to dark skies above
the end of the world
stayed only by love

swallow the bile
put fear on a shelf
don't wait for a while
but sacrifice self
the heavens are open
the prayers cracked them wide
the end is upon us
there's nothing to hide

so open my soul up
with pain and with hope
pour out the full cup
and bind with a rope
eternity's open
the hours are few
before new beginnings
shall all things renew

(haiku for window light)

hope is a light in
a window— like in glass panes
what powerful gaze!

(haiku for questions)

what joy?— have joy! they
speak like an answer— how? ask
the moonlight eclipsed

waters burn (poem)

let the waters burn until they're gone
let the oceans cry 'til they blot the sun
let the dusk fall down across the sky
let lightning strike my questions why
let the earth resound with a greater cry

though none (poem)

shall I beg you to save me
demand you give ear
I'll not be a burden
nor carry this fear
though none may defend me
though my arms cannot hold
though my feet cannot stand
though the enemy's bold
my God shall sustain me
I will rest in His hand
and abandon all to Him
I will trust in His plan

No Hope But God (poem)

I have no hope but God
I have no life but grace
'Tis only by His promise
That I've been made a place
My home is in this heartbeat
My love is in His hand
Upon this firm foundation
Is my only way to stand

Prayer 037 (poem)

Cast me not away, O sovereign God!
Though I can't demand, not of Your love
It's only by Your grace I enter in
And bow my head before You; even then
I feel the weight of mercy on my soul
Echoing within me, Spirit groans
That I might be relieved of mortal flesh
Let light consume me wholly, add the rest

Prayer 038 (poem)

Christ, have I forgotten my childhood dreams
When once I walked with You so faithfully
My innocence lies tattered at the seams
And yet, You hold Your mercy out to me
Abandon all my empty foolishness
Retrun to You, my God; Your holiness
Could condemn my soul, and yet instead
It comforts me and lifts again my head
I have no hope but God
No light but love

Prayer 039 (poem)

Shall I whisper where the wind can't hear me?
Should I ever let the memories come near me?
Once upon a time, I knew my place
Today, I fall again upon Your grace
Will the silences rise and consume me?
Shall I face them yet when no one knew me?
What, these marks I've made upon my soul—
Will You answer me? Can I be whole?
I who knew the name of every promise
Bound them on my soul and in the premise
Of the life I lived, can I return?
Or is my heart the kind that You would spurn?
There is battle fierce, of that I'm told
Relentless weapons trying to take hold
Should this tiny light of my desire
Be flame enough that rescue could inspire,
Will You save me, Lord, out of my hand?
Will You lift me up that I could stand?

12/11/17

His Mercies (poem)

Merciful is my Father
King over all the earth
His fingers made the heavens
His Word has given it birth
His mercies lie upon me
His love my soul renews
All honor, praise, and glory
I give Him as His due

wake me up (poem)

wake me up
with the light
I will keep
You in sight

Prayer 040 (poem)

open up my heart and pour me out
fill my soul with grace, enough to drown
let the flowing tears just pour on down
this is not my battle nor my bout
for justification, that is Yours alone
and saving me reserved for Your own power
so I cast my trust on You this hour
and throw my pain and hopes before Your throne

far as the east (poem)

where the waters run
where the oceans roar
where the waves fall down
upon a far shore
where my heart is deeper
than the depths of the sea
and an ocean of tears
has been wept out of me
where the tides still swell
with the cries of my soul
where the stars in the sky
don't see and don't know
that I am the whole
of a cosmos inside
that in this great flood
no matter how wide
this is truly the place
where I cast all my prayers
to the throne of my God
place my feet on the stairs
towards the heavens above
as I throw off all my pain
to the hands of my God
I am not healed in vain

12/13/17

Prayer 041 (poem)

morning, Father
day has come
I long to feel
the light of Son
Christ the Lord
please reign in me
help me love
You perfectly

Rejoice in Sun (poem)

For Z. and S.

Joy is in your touch
The way you love so much
The skies over your head
And meadows for your bed
How you rejoice in sun
In rain or snow—all one
In place before your eyes
Each day a brand new prize
I joy in you, my friend
Though like the lovely wind
You may fly from me
Yet stay so faithfully
It is your joy I love
Your nearness is enough

Hail (poem)

Faithful to our Prince
And faithful to our King
Christ His holy name
King above all kings
The heart that beats within
By His grace won't fail
Christ our given power
And His name we hail

for His ways (poem)

praise Him always for His ways
that cannot be fathomed nor measured
deeper than my sea
plumb the depths of the heart of God
you can never reach the bottom
of His unconditional love
though hate found home in my breast
though hurt words lingered in memory, flesh
'til the bitter dregs must be expunged by the Surgeon
still He insists upon loving me
though I've fallen in mud
though I'm covered in pain
though the tears I have shed
outnumber the drops of rain
though I've whined and I've crumbled
though I've fallen and grumbled
still He has not let me go

praise the God of (poem)

praise the God of all heavenly things
praise the Creator of rising wings
who made the lion's throat to roar
and taught the eagle how to soar

12/16/17

in emptiness gathered (poem)

For A. and D.

the world is filled with violence
the night echoes with pain
the cries of the hungry masters
thirst for more in vain
here in the emptiness gathered
beside me you understand
a moment of peace in our breath
we will carry on hand in hand

a shadow (poem)

For B. and M.

you are a shadow
I know it; you feel it
each glimpse of you kept
in my secret heart
yet you are a light
shining, I feel it
my hope of salvation
in you I have kept

shield (poem)

For C. and E.

you are my arm and my strength
my shield and my guard when I'm weak
my word that I cannot speak
'til the heavens are burnt unto dust
'til the oceans have boiled away
'til our swords have corroded to rust
I swear on my honor, I pray
I am your arm and your strength
your shield and your guard when you're weak
your word that you cannot speak

12/21/17 START OF WINTER

12/23/17

no ash (poem)

For A. and M.

bright like stars and strong like castles
wake these dreams around us last
wishing stars that never crumble
through the sky to dust, to ash

set the lamps (poem)

winter days and warmest smiles
don't forget the way we love
don't forget too long awhile
return, my friend, as a homing dove
light the candles in the windows
set the lamps to burning bright
clasp our hands once more in joyful
welcome back, a lovely sight

(haiku for beauty)

beautiful, your eyes
your voice, a joy I feel
inside my mind– spark

12/26/17

Wake Up Call (poem)

Brain, wake up!
I've been putting in requests
while you efficiently
keep throwing them out again
What's with you lately?
Things to do,
to be— remember?
Get moving, keep up with me

through the breakers (poem)

quiet things, the world over
spinning like a maelstrom flows
through the vortex, through the breakers
water flows and waters drown
cast the sunlight through the ocean
like the brightness, gleaming tears
beacon shining through the darkness
lighthouse beaming over fears
sit inside a hurricane eye
quiet things, surrounding me
worlds destroyed before the storm
worlds inside my heart are born

12/27/17

pour out (poem)

The bones of the world break
You're everything I never wanted
Let the heavens shake with tremors
Roil with nimbus clouds of light
Let the lightning strike the oceans
Tsunamis quake beneath the seas
Open all the gates of heaven
Pour out all eternity

in between (poem)

in between
you and me
the worlds sing
the ages hush
hearts will blush
no need to look
no need to see
for in between
you and me
is everything

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 === [[photograph (poem)]] ===
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 wander through, like sunlight on my fingertips<br>
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 === [[rush (poem)]] ===
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 softly, we open our mouths and whisper<br>
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 under our bridge — Hush, dear; hush
-== July ==
+== February 2017 ==
-=== 7/9/17 ===
+=== 2/8/17 ===
-==== [[Adoption (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Image (poem)]] ====
-Heaven would be ours<br>
+[http://notebook.lianamir.com/2017/02/image-poem/ NB] [Tumblr]
-should we know our powers,<br>
-for heaven is within<br>
-and to the Lord we're kin<br>
-if we take His name,<br>
-let His adoption claim<br>
-change the name we hold<br>
-into His like and mold.
-==== [[Heartbeat (poem)]] ====
+Moments pass in crystal mirrors<br>
+shining in another's eyes<br>
+Catch the sun and make it shimmer<br>
+cast it back into the light<br>
+I will be your bright reflection<br>
+if you will be my inner sight
-There's a song in my heart<br>
+==== [[Who Do You Think I Am? (poem)]] ====
-O the mercies I chart<br>
-In the soul of my God<br>
-In the depths of His love
-When anxiety frays<br>
+[http://notebook.lianamir.com/2017/02/who-do-you-think-i-am-poem/ NB] [Tumblr]
-My peace and it sways<br>
-My soul from its course<br>
-I command, Light, come forth!
-For the power of Christ<br>
+Who do you think I am? the daughter of pain<br>
-Is the song of my life<br>
+Once upon a time I knew my name<br>
-It is pounding in me<br>
+You think I am the monster in the night<br>
-The true heartbeat of me
+And never asked who taught me how to fight
-==== [[Another word for (poem)]] ====
+Who do you think I am? I could be yours<br>
+The changeling child stol'n away in night hours<br>
+I was raised by military hands<br>
+On your behalf, I have razed foreign lands
-Technical difficulties<br>
+Who do you think I am? your conqueror<br>
-Is another word<br>
+Though I have deposed your emperor<br>
-For universe having a laugh
+Thrown down those I know have spilled your blood<br>
+But isn't it easier 'stead to blame us?
-==== [[there's water (poem)]] ====
+Who do you think I am? the daughter of pain<br>
+This blood I can't wash out has made a stain<br>
+Upon my soul and conscience, the price for life<br>
+That I should be the weapon out of sight
-there's water under the bridge<br>
+Who do you think I am? I could be yours<br>
-it's gone, long gone, by now<br>
+I wanted to be someone's, like before<br>
-but there's a channel in the earth<br>
+Before I was a weapon, I was a child<br>
-of our history and a bridge
+I was not a monster nor born wild
-==== [[dawn echo (poem)]] ====
+Who do you think I am, your conqueror?<br>
+I took my freedom, but did not defer<br>
+Yours or bring down powers innocent<br>
+Of the blood of children that they spent
-echoing into the darkness<br>
+Who do you think I am? the daughter of pain<br>
-shines the light<br>
+Once upon a time I knew my name<br>
-open my eyes to brightness<br>
+And one day, I vow, I'll find again<br>
-newness of sight<br>
+Who I always knew I might have been
-shake out my newborn wings<br>
-and rise in flight
-=== 7/24/17 ===
+==== [[like the lightning (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Burning Bridges (poem)]] ====
+Kiss me like the lightning<br>
+Make my insides spark so bright<br>
+Let your fingertips like thunder<br>
+Make a rumbling throughout<br>
+Stare at me like stormclouds<br>
+Fix me with your nimbus gaze<br>
+Make everything around me<br>
+But you to fall away
-Yesterday, a bridge<br>
+==== [[lumen (poem)]] ====
-Today, the ashy water<br>
-Pours out of my mouth<br>
-Like a mighty river
-==== [[Feathers (poem)]] ====
+the light plays music<br>
+across my fingers<br>
+golden notes<br>
+like dawn, my hope
-Two broken wings<br>
+==== [[Spilt (poem)]] ====
-Taped together<br>
-Maybe we can't fly<br>
-We keep each other warm
-[[Category:Poetry]]
+All I hoped for, all I wanted<br>
+Right in front of me<br>
+I knocked it over, poured it out<br>
+I spilled the cup of tea<br>
+I sniffed, I sopped, I mopped it up<br>
+I sighed most wistfully<br>
+But, alas, resigned myself<br>
+It wasn't meant to be
-=== 7/25/17 ===
+==== [[Mystique (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Transcend (poem)]] ====
+''For R''
-Look into my butterfly heart<br>
+blood is silent, yet it cries<br>
-Look beneath my tight furl'd wings<br>
+it whispers in your foreign eyes<br>
-In the cocoon, that dark, close part<br>
+the worlds are spinning on your tongue<br>
-There transcend terrestial things<br>
+are you ancient; are you young?
-I'll wake soon<br>
-And leave cocoon
-=== 7/28/17 ===
+==== [[We (poem)]] ====
-==== [[May (poem)]] ====
+love is a heart that bleeds<br>
+when yours is hurt<br>
+love is a soul that aches<br>
+when yours is burned
-I am grateful for the sun<br>
+love is a hold that warms<br>
-It may be hot, but I am warm
+when you are cold<br>
+love will stand behind you<br>
+when you're bold
-I am grateful for the wind<br>
+love is the shout of joy<br>
-It may be cold, but I can breathe
+in your success<br>
+love is happiness when<br>
+your dreams are met
-I am grateful for my friends<br>
+love is two hands twined<br>
-They may tease, but I am loved
+the eyes that meet<br>
+and speak without our words<br>
+all that we need
-I am grateful for the day<br>
+==== [[restless (poem)]] ====
-I may be tired, but I'm alive
-==== [[The Heart and the Spark (poem)]] ====
+quiet moves in quiet places<br>
+unstill, unwhispered, full of faces<br>
+they open up their silent mouths<br>
+a room unempty of quiet shouts
-Every once in a while<br>
+==== [[dreams remembered (poem)]] ====
-Someone falls in love<br>
-It couldn't be me, it <em>wouldn't</em> be me<br>
-But knowing it isn't enough<br>
-You can't just think it is true<br>
-Or feel it deep down in your bones<br>
-Your heart and the spark<br>
-Must ever apart<br>
-Remain or bam! you're in love
-=== Uncertain Date ===
+I've forgotten how to dream<br>
+once I knew, I'm sure I knew<br>
+you know the vivid way it seems<br>
+that life is seeping out and gleams<br>
+that is how I always dreamt<br>
+I never wondered what it meant<br>
+that I could wake from such a life<br>
+it shook me up, it made me cry<br>
+I used to try so hard to lose<br>
+the things I dreamt, I'd gladly choose<br>
+to walk away into my day<br>
+so hard, so fast, it fell away<br>
+I realized once not long ago<br>
+that all the dreams I used to know<br>
+that used to burn in me, aglow<br>
+seem like photographs so old<br>
+I've forgotten how to dream<br>
+I used to know, I'm sure it's so<br>
+do you remember how they gleamed<br>
+vivid, seeping from their seams
-==== [[Prayer 010. Remind Me (poem)]] ====
+=== 2/9/17 ===
+==== [[The Daily Shuffle (poem)]] ====
+The daily shuffle
+:: back and forth,
+:::: forward and back—
+Mind the track!
+I feel the pain
+:: within my throat,
+:::: within my chest—
+the daily grind,
+:: it never ends.
+=== 2/19/17 ===
-Today, remind me who to be<br>
+==== [[Know It Is (poem)]] ====
-A child of God in everything<br>
-To hold to You, O Lord, and cling<br>
-To the love of Christ in me
-== August ==
+Life is a shattered mirror<br>
+spiderweb memories fragile<br>
+like ice after a hoarfrost night<br>
+before it is thick enough to hold<br>
+our weight—just hold my hand<br>
+I won't let go<br>
+I know it's cold<br>
+I know you see your breath and<br>
+know it's going to be a long way down<br>
+but that is life
-=== 8/15/17 ===
+== March 2017 ==
-==== [[(for me)]] ====
+=== 3/1/17 ===
-broken eggshells<br>
+==== [[light goes spinning (poem)]] ====
-my heart<br>
-emptiness inside
-==== [[this too (poem)]] ====
+The light goes spinning around and 'round<br>
+I close my heart, but it makes no sound<br>
+I open it up to Your great light<br>
+That my heart may joy and faith 'come sight
-this too shall pass<br>
+=== 3/3/17 ===
-even this<br>
-tomorrow it<br>
-will not be missed
-==== [[where I've been (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for ice)]] ====
-tell me where I've been<br>
+the top of the world<br>
-I've been hiding out for a while<br>
+seems lonely, wind cutting ice<br>
-hiding in the bottom<br>
+tears from my lashes
-of my quiet, shivering heart<br>
-tell me what to say<br>
-what you will believe<br>
-I promise nothing but<br>
-an ever tighter weave
-==== [[running like a mind (poem)]] ====
+=== 3/5/17 ===
-there's water under the bridge<br>
+==== [[(haiku for sunlight)]] ====
-it's running like a mind<br>
-ahead of the briar thorns<br>
-of memory in my spine<br>
-there's water under the bridge<br>
-it's drowning like a lie<br>
-beneath relentless truth<br>
-when nothing left can hide
-=== 8/16/17 ===
+catch morning sunlight<br>
+waking my eyes—sharp, gentle.<br>
+forgive winter's bite
-==== [[burden (poem)]] ====
+=== 3/12/17 ===
-we are tired<br>
+==== [[The Way She Moves (sonnet)]] ====
-of the heavy places,<br>
-the deep tirades,<br>
-required graces,<br>
-every word<br>
-you ever spoke<br>
-from the day<br>
-my eyes awoke
-=== 8/17/17 ===
+''For S and M''
-==== [[dance our war (poem)]] ====
+The way she moves, all confidence and grace<br>
+The fire's dance compared is commonplace<br>
+Her violent touch to conquer foreign land<br>
+Is gentle when she touches me again<br>
+I touch her warmth and trace her many scars<br>
+Against the softest skin, cascade of stars<br>
+Her voice is low, a rasp within my ear<br>
+Like shivers in the thunder that I hear
-we conquered cities<br>
+They say my lover's ruthless and she's harsh<br>
-we stomped our feet<br>
+They say she knows no mercy nor no fear<br>
-danced our war<br>
+They say that they can see the scathing arch<br>
-to every beat<br>
+Her eyebrows make and all her coldness hear<br>
-of our twin hearts<br>
+They've never felt the way she clings to me<br>
-and no retreat<br>
+Nor understood what is necessity
-cry, my love<br>
-the taste is sweet
-=== 8/21/17 ===
+=== 3/29/17 ===
-==== [[sometimes, you lose (poem)]] ====
+==== [[fruit of joy (poem)]] ====
-Sometimes, you lose a poem<br>
+light<br>
-It falls from your mind like drops of sunlight<br>
+is the<br>
-Pouring molten into the next<br>
+song on my lips,<br>
-At least, you pray, it'll have a good rest
+the fruit of our joy<br>
+in each other,<br>
+is us
-==== [[This Time (poem)]] ====
+==== [[shining bright (poem)]] ====
-This isn't the first time you've done this<br>
+Joy,<br>
-Disappointed me in my grief<br>
+the light<br>
-This isn't the first time you've brought me<br>
+within your<br>
-To tears and to disbelief<br>
+beautiful eyes<br>
-But I will find from inside me<br>
+shining bright<br>
-The strength to give praise to my God<br>
+at me—<br>
-For even from this, He can save me<br>
+my.
-Even from this, can bring good
-==== [[Light (poem)]] ====
+== April 2017 ==
-Moonlight, starlight, sunlight<br>
+=== 4/26/17 ===
-Last light, first light, bright light<br>
-You are the light of day to me<br>
-You are the glow over tides I see<br>
-You are the brightness before the dawn<br>
-I stare at you through the eclipse — you're gone
-==== [[kiss me goodnight (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Together (poem)]] ====
-kiss me where the blood runs down<br>
+early this morning, I thought of you<br>
-where water flows and floods the town<br>
+you by my side when the sky was blue<br>
-where right is left and up is down<br>
+you at my back when the clouds are grey<br>
-where angels drench their wings and drown
+never without me walking away
-dance me in the brightest light<br>
+==== [[Tenderly (poem)]] ====
-where sun is flaming into night<br>
-burning as it falls from sight<br>
+Croon to me a love song<br>
-the end of all, eternal night
+Soon into my heart and<br>
+Save me very tenderly<br>
+Brave my heart tonight
+==== [[Under the bridge (poem)]] ====
+it’s water under the bridge<br>
+just water<br>
+you can tell me over and over again<br>
+it’s just water<br>
+and I’ll cry my tears<br>
+and I’ll drown your pride<br>
+and in the end, stand by your side<br>
+it’s just water
-=== 8/22/17 ===
+== May 2017 ==
-==== [[A Cat (poem)]] ====
+=== 5/1/17 ===
-Some days I think<br>
+==== [[Autumn (poem)]] ====
-To myself on the brink<br>
-Of another load<br>
-Of work, O to be<br>
-A cat!
-==== [[Sky (poem)]] ====
+months pass; leaves fall<br>
+little children grow so tall<br>
+footprints damp in rampant piles<br>
+colors bright for just a while
-flowers bright and warm<br>
+=== 5/3/17 ===
-their brilliant colors waving<br>
-in gentle summer breezes<br>
-beneath a cloud-full sky
-the way the sun rises<br>
+==== [[Seed (poem)]] ====
-against the golden tide<br>
-cresting a deep blue ocean<br>
-guided by evening star
-the way the sun sets<br>
+there’s beauty in the silences<br>
-over the nimbus hues<br>
+that swirl ’round my room<br>
-of vivid pink and scarlet<br>
+that enter into distances<br>
-my Colorado skies
+that flirt with the monsoon<br>
+there’s something deep inside of me<br>
+the eye, a growing storm<br>
+I keep it close, this light you see<br>
+to spark me bright and warm<br>
-==== [[Shadow (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Burning (poem)]] ====
-shadow on the wall<br>
+I feel the light,<br>
-you step so quietly<br>
+burning in the distance—<br>
-catch me lest I fall<br>
+It's the light of a thousand fires,<br>
-through the heart of everything
+the light of a hundred candles,<br>
+the light of a thousand souls<br>
+burning in a hundred hearts<br>
+(Can't you feel the light,<br>
+not only in the distance?)—<br>
+but also in my heart.
-==== [[Lock and Key (poem)]] ====
+== June 2017 ==
-you're the lock, I'm the key<br>
+=== 6/4/17 ===
-together we are everything
-==== [[wild flower (poem)]] ====
+==== [[True (poem)]] ====
-Robe the fields in scarlet<br>
+today is quite a lovely day<br>
-Array them in peony red<br>
+in the most significant way<br>
-Run through the nodding flowers<br>
+the way that means I spoke to you<br>
-And kiss them upon their heads
+and knew again our friendship true
-=== 8/23/17 ===
+=== 6/6/17 ===
-==== [[green (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Arm in Arm (poem)]] ====
-green pastures<br>
+Joy is when we say hello<br>
-soft meadows<br>
+We breathe the air another breathes<br>
-trees shelter<br>
+We wrap our arms, for as we go<br>
-wild flowers<br>
+We are one in everything
-sun shining<br>
-blue water<br>
+Happiness is the way we walk<br>
-new summer<br>
+The road together where’er it leads<br>
-leaves growing
+We laugh at night, by day we talk<br>
+And always care for the other’s needs
-==== [[in whispers (poem)]] ====
+Friendship is how we live our lives<br>
+We’ve known each other since we were small<br>
+Complementary as cream and chives<br>
+And love each other best of all
-somebody tell me in whispers<br>
+== June 20-21 START OF SUMMER ==
-the way that the world turns<br>
-won't fly out like a flare<br>
-from the sun and be lost in the earth<br>
-somebody hold me in silence<br>
-breathe comfort into my back<br>
-that the end of all things is not here yet<br>
-that there is still time to grow yet
-==== [[Sacrifice (poem)]] ====
+== July ==
-Burn the road behind my path. <br>
+=== 7/9/17 ===
-Unwind the yarn before me. <br>
-Let the bridges fall in charred<br>
-ashes upon the creek. <br>
-Only one of us shall step<br>
-into the dark, cold breach. <br>
-I know you want to sacrifice, <br>
-but I love you. It's going to be me.
+==== [[Adoption (poem)]] ====
-=== 8/24/17 ===
+Heaven would be ours<br>
+should we know our powers,<br>
+for heaven is within<br>
+and to the Lord we're kin<br>
+if we take His name,<br>
+let His adoption claim<br>
+change the name we hold<br>
+into His like and mold.
-==== [[Mine (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Heartbeat (poem)]] ====
-Tell me what is mine
+There's a song in my heart<br>
-:: your heart?
+O the mercies I chart<br>
-I've never counted time
+In the soul of my God<br>
-:: by mine
+In the depths of His love
-but I will count your breaths
-:: and breathe
-==== [[though I may roam (poem)]] ====
+When anxiety frays<br>
+My peace and it sways<br>
+My soul from its course<br>
+I command, Light, come forth!
-new house, new home<br>
+For the power of Christ<br>
-though I may roam<br>
+Is the song of my life<br>
-your heart will be<br>
+It is pounding in me<br>
-true north to me
+The true heartbeat of me
-==== [[day and night (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Another word for (poem)]] ====
-morning, wake<br>
+Technical difficulties<br>
-within your arms<br>
+Is another word<br>
-I lean on you<br>
+For universe having a laugh
-your shoulder's warm
-by day, we're working<br>
+==== [[there's water (poem)]] ====
-side by side<br>
-my many plans<br>
-in you confide
-evening rest<br>
+there's water under the bridge<br>
-finds me at last<br>
+it's gone, long gone, by now<br>
-asleep with you<br>
+but there's a channel in the earth<br>
-our troubles past
+of our history and a bridge
+==== [[dawn echo (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Contentment (poem)]] ====
+echoing into the darkness<br>
+shines the light<br>
+open my eyes to brightness<br>
+newness of sight<br>
+shake out my newborn wings<br>
+and rise in flight
-Warm fuzzies<br>
+=== 7/18/17 ===
-Loud purr<br>
-Cat paws<br>
-Soft fur
-==== [[claim (poem)]] ====
+==== [[If I Can Find a Way (poem)]] ====
-they tell me she won't love you<br>
+If I can find a way<br>
-no one ever taught her how<br>
+to shove it under the bridge,<br>
-they tell me she will kill you<br>
+I will.<br>
-should you ever let her down<br>
+If I can find a way<br>
-they haven't seen her spear me<br>
+to drown it under the bridge,<br>
-with her steady, certain gaze<br>
+I will.<br>
-nor felt her hand like iron<br>
+If I can find a way<br>
-as she claims me in all ways
+to throw it under the bridge,<br>
+I will—<br>
+every time<br>
+you did not understand,<br>
+every time<br>
+we did not get along,<br>
+every time<br>
+we could not cross the bridge—<br>
+because I know<br>
+our love remains strong.
-=== 8/25/17 ===
+=== 7/24/17 ===
-==== [[Prayer 011 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Burning Bridges (poem)]] ====
-Lord, the day before me
+Yesterday, a bridge<br>
-:: is beautiful and bright
+Today, the ashy water<br>
-Lord, the work before me
+Pours out of my mouth<br>
-:: is heavier than I'd like
+Like a mighty river
-But You, O Lord, are perfect
-:: and, Lord, You are my strength
-Carry me and guide me
-:: today in everything
-==== [[chambers of my heart (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Feathers (poem)]] ====
-plant a seed of love
+Two broken wings<br>
-:: and kindness blooms
+Taped together<br>
-fill with tenderness
+Maybe we can't fly<br>
-:: these empty rooms
+We keep each other warm
-the chambers of my heart
-:: where hope still looms
+[[Category:Poetry]]
-==== [[avenue (poem)]] ====
+=== 7/25/17 ===
-an avenue of autumn trees<br>
+==== [[Transcend (poem)]] ====
-the faintest chill upon the breeze<br>
-revel in the falling leaves<br>
-flaming bright before they freeze
-=== 8/27/17 ===
+Look into my butterfly heart<br>
+Look beneath my tight furl'd wings<br>
+In the cocoon, that dark, close part<br>
+There transcend terrestial things<br>
+I'll wake soon<br>
+And leave cocoon
-==== [[Moving (poem)]] ====
+=== 7/28/17 ===
-Today, we pack<br>
+==== [[May (poem)]] ====
-Tomorrow, we load<br>
-The day after that,<br>
-The movers come in<br>
-All because<br>
-The home that we chose<br>
-Is lovelier far<br>
-Than the one that we're in
-==== [[Blame (poem)]] ====
+I am grateful for the sun<br>
+It may be hot, but I am warm
-You throw around blame<br>
+I am grateful for the wind<br>
-Like it's all a big game<br>
+It may be cold, but I can breathe
-There's no equity in your name<br>
-Your reputation<br>
-Is built on lies<br>
-All your gold is but false prize
-== September 2017 ==
+I am grateful for my friends<br>
+They may tease, but I am loved
-=== 9/1/17 ===
+I am grateful for the day<br>
+I may be tired, but I'm alive
-==== [[A Grain of Faith (poem)]] ====
+==== [[The Heart and the Spark (poem)]] ====
-There is light at the end of this very long tunnel<br>
+Every once in a while<br>
-There is hope at the top of this very tall funnel<br>
+Someone falls in love<br>
-Though a grain of faith is what reaches me<br>
+It couldn't be me, it <em>wouldn't</em> be me<br>
-That's enough to bring eternity
+But knowing it isn't enough<br>
+You can't just think it is true<br>
+Or feel it deep down in your bones<br>
+Your heart and the spark<br>
+Must ever apart<br>
+Remain or bam! you're in love
-==== [[Enough To (poem)]] ====
+=== Uncertain Date ===
-Got enough sorrows to drown in<br>
+==== [[Prayer 010. Remind Me (poem)]] ====
-Got enough prayers I must pray<br>
-Got enough words in my heart now<br>
-That are too heavy to say<br>
-But I open my mouth to a song and<br>
-I lift up my hands as I sway<br>
-If I can just find room to dance now<br>
-I will feel better today
-==== [[and I (poem)]] ====
+Today, remind me who to be<br>
+A child of God in everything<br>
+To hold to You, O Lord, and cling<br>
+To the love of Christ in me
-somebody tell me why<br>
+== August ==
-you are the reason why<br>
-my heart beats in my chest<br>
-and I<br>
-can't seem to make it<br>
-beat without you
-==== [[scorn (poem)]] ====
+=== 8/1/17 ===
-[[The Database (Character)]]
+==== [[Culminate (poem)]] ====
-you ask me why I'm caustic<br>
+You taught me joy in darkest hours<br>
-you ask me why I'm harsh<br>
+Filled me, touched me, made me love<br>
-you ask me what's my problem<br>
+The way we are before our powers<br>
-but I'm barely getting warm
+End the world: it is enough
-have you seen my future<br>
+==== [[Moon Bright (poem)]] ====
-or have you seen my past<br>
-if you had looked at either<br>
-you would never have to ask
-==== [[alas, my friend (poem)]] ====
+Moon bright<br>
+Moon light<br>
+Shines into <br>
+My room tonight<br>
+Kisses me<br>
+Upon my head<br>
+Sending sleep <br>
+Into my bed
-there will be other moments<br>
+=== 8/2/17 ===
-and other conversations<br>
-there will be other heart-to-hearts<br>
-you are not two nations<br>
-your minds will meet again<br>
-you will again be friends<br>
-this isn't where it ends<br>
-you're just too strong to bend
-==== [[excuses (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for tea)]] ====
-don't bother me with excuses<br>
+morning tea steaming<br>
-don't trouble me with your lies<br>
+snowy white porcelain cup<br>
-I can read the truth myself<br>
+breaking tide of peace
-from right within your eyes
-=== 9/3/17 ===
+==== [[(haiku for tea)]] ====
-==== [[seeking wisdom (poem)]] ====
+evening tea heating<br>
+warm hands, warm soul; day's frost thaws<br>
+rest easy tonight
-wisdom guards the steps of those<br>
+==== [[With You (poem)]] ====
-who turn to you, who listen with their ear<br>
-to that quiet voice of stillness<br>
-inside us, for Your voice is very near
-though our breath is near us, though our tongues<br>
+Joy is the way you kiss me<br>
-speak the words we hold within our cheek<br>
+: You fill my heart with warmth<br>
-nearer yet is precious Holy Spirit<br>
+Love is the way you hold me<br>
-Yours the voice and words I truly seek
+: Through every violent storm<br>
+Peace is the way it feels to<br>
+: Hold your hand in mine<br>
+As we rest together<br>
+: Our hearts in perfect time
-==== [[A Day (poem)]] ====
+=== 8/11/17 ===
-This has been a ''day''
+==== [[Daybreak (poem)]] ====
-:: You had one too
-(not that You are finite)
-:: I know You
-had patience as I learned
-:: to ever praise
-through the very worst
-:: of my bad days
-==== [[Prayer 012 (poem)]] ====
+Morning breaks the night<br>
+Dawn shatters in light<br>
+Hours passed like dreams<br>
+Nothing what it seems
-You take charge and<br>
+=== 8/15/17 ===
-You make plans<br>
-Let me follow<br>
-Your commands<br>
-I give all<br>
-My steps to You<br>
-Guard them, Lord,<br>
-And keep me true
-==== [[count (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(for me)]] ====
-count me in;
+broken eggshells<br>
-:: count me out
+my heart<br>
-every moment adding up<br>
+emptiness inside
-I'm in twice;
-:: I'm out twice
-bring me in and fill my cup<br>
-you are home;
-:: I am yours
-surely, that should count for two<br>
-I will wait;
-:: I'm with you
-nothing else will ever do
-==== [[silver (poem)]] ====
+==== [[this too (poem)]] ====
-Canon: [[:Category:Mirror|The Mirror]]
+this too shall pass<br>
+even this<br>
+tomorrow it<br>
+will not be missed
-silver beckons<br>
+==== [[where I've been (poem)]] ====
-over hands<br>
-silver slips<br>
-in gleaming strands<br>
-I whisper silver<br>
-do my will<br>
-it shifts, obeys<br>
-and then lies still
-==== [[A Treat (poem)]] ====
+tell me where I've been<br>
+I've been hiding out for a while<br>
+hiding in the bottom<br>
+of my quiet, shivering heart<br>
+tell me what to say<br>
+what you will believe<br>
+I promise nothing but<br>
+an ever tighter weave
-blow me kisses<br>
+==== [[running like a mind (poem)]] ====
-make them sweet<br>
-seeing you<br>
-has been my treat
-=== 9/5/17 ===
+there's water under the bridge<br>
+it's running like a mind<br>
+ahead of the briar thorns<br>
+of memory in my spine<br>
+there's water under the bridge<br>
+it's drowning like a lie<br>
+beneath relentless truth<br>
+when nothing left can hide
-==== [[winter fire (poem)]] ====
+=== 8/16/17 ===
-Tell me what you think<br>
+==== [[burden (poem)]] ====
-of me<br>
-on winter nights, when skies are cold<br>
-and blue;<br>
-you touch me like I'm made of fire<br>
-holding hands<br>
-to keep you warm.
-==== [[Everything (poem)]] ====
+we are tired<br>
+of the heavy places,<br>
+the deep tirades,<br>
+required graces,<br>
+every word<br>
+you ever spoke<br>
+from the day<br>
+my eyes awoke
+=== 8/17/17 ===
-Everything I ever wanted<br>
+==== [[dance our war (poem)]] ====
-Everything you meant to me<br>
-Castles in the sky you promised<br>
-But you the ground beneath my feet<br>
-All I dreamed of, all I hoped for<br>
-Was your arms to comfort me
-==== [[this my land (poem)]] ====
+we conquered cities<br>
+we stomped our feet<br>
+danced our war<br>
+to every beat<br>
+of our twin hearts<br>
+and no retreat<br>
+cry, my love<br>
+the taste is sweet
-beauty<br>
+=== 8/21/17 ===
-the eye of the beholder<br>
-wonder<br>
-the ear of the one who hears<br>
-behold<br>
-my skies, the mountains rising<br>
-here<br>
-from the earth I call my home
-==== [[glitch (poem)]] ====
+==== [[sometimes, you lose (poem)]] ====
-The cat, she naps;<br>
+Sometimes, you lose a poem<br>
-Her baleful eye<br>
+It falls from your mind like drops of sunlight<br>
-is on me if I twitch<br>
+Pouring molten into the next<br>
-She shifts, her claws<br>
+At least, you pray, it'll have a good rest
-are on me! I<br>
-cry protest at the switch.<br>
-Barely disturbed,<br>
-she purrs to sleep,<br>
-as though 'twas but a glitch.
-==== [[Shadowed (poem)]] ====
+==== [[This Time (poem)]] ====
-Inkblot shadow<br>
+This isn't the first time you've done this<br>
-You curl around my edges<br>
+Disappointed me in my grief<br>
-I nudge the window<br>
+This isn't the first time you've brought me<br>
-Open. Breathe<br>
+To tears and to disbelief<br>
-You touch my mouth instead
+But I will find from inside me<br>
+The strength to give praise to my God<br>
+For even from this, He can save me<br>
+Even from this, can bring good
-==== [[Troth (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Light (poem)]] ====
-I will burn like wind<br>
+Moonlight, starlight, sunlight<br>
-Blown from the sun<br>
+Last light, first light, bright light<br>
-Bear my light and heat<br>
+You are the light of day to me<br>
-Or you must run<br>
+You are the glow over tides I see<br>
-Thus then I may know<br>
+You are the brightness before the dawn<br>
-If you're the one
+I stare at you through the eclipse — you're gone
-=== 9/6/17 ===
+==== [[kiss me goodnight (poem)]] ====
-==== [[little songbird (poem)]] ====
+kiss me where the blood runs down<br>
+where water flows and floods the town<br>
+where right is left and up is down<br>
+where angels drench their wings and drown
-little songbird,<br>
+dance me in the brightest light<br>
-wander far<br>
+where sun is flaming into night<br>
-but remember who you are<br>
+burning as it falls from sight<br>
-precious child,<br>
+the end of all, eternal night
-spread your wings<br>
-fly and then come home to me
-=== 9/7/17 ===
-==== [[How Fly the Hours (poem)]] ====
+=== 8/22/17 ===
-How do the hours fly by so quickly?<br>
+==== [[A Cat (poem)]] ====
-Like wind in my hair, not slow sands dripping<br>
-Through time's turning glass, through the hours slipping<br>
-My hands in its mane, sweaty and gripping<br>
-Time seems to fly if our mouths are laughing<br>
-And doesn't slow down when we fall to weeping<br>
-Ride, bright stallion, into the bright sun<br>
-I'll see you when the day is done
-==== [[too bad (poem)]] ====
+Some days I think<br>
+To myself on the brink<br>
+Of another load<br>
+Of work, O to be<br>
+A cat!
-shut up<br>
+==== [[Sky (poem)]] ====
-you tell me who I am<br>
-you tell me who to be<br>
-you tell me who I was raised to be<br>
-but this does not define me<br>
-I am who I am<br>
-and who I choose to be<br>
-and if you think the world don't like that<br>
-too bad, I'll still be me
-==== [[rust (poem)]] ====
+flowers bright and warm<br>
+their brilliant colors waving<br>
+in gentle summer breezes<br>
+beneath a cloud-full sky
+the way the sun rises<br>
+against the golden tide<br>
+cresting a deep blue ocean<br>
+guided by evening star
-I will survive<br>
+the way the sun sets<br>
-though I drown in the dust<br>
+over the nimbus hues<br>
-though you beat me and fail me<br>
+of vivid pink and scarlet<br>
-though the air turns to rust<br>
+my Colorado skies
-Yes, I will survive<br>
-though the night chills to cold<br>
-my wounds will heal over<br>
-the blood will grow old
-==== [[I am sharp edges (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Shadow (poem)]] ====
-My bones dance
+shadow on the wall<br>
-:: I am sharp edges
+you step so quietly<br>
-You are the whetstone
+catch me lest I fall<br>
-:: of my face
+through the heart of everything
-The sun flames
-:: like a bright spotlight
-Watch me dance
-:: in this harsh place
-=== 9/8/17 ===
+==== [[Lock and Key (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Tell Me Now (poem)]] ====
+you're the lock, I'm the key<br>
+together we are everything
-Tell me who I ought to be<br>
+==== [[wild flower (poem)]] ====
-I'll tell you who you are to me<br>
-Tell you all the things I knew<br>
-When you and I were only true<br>
-In friendship and platonic love<br>
-When you and I were still enough<br>
-I'll tell you all the roads we went<br>
-And all the dreams we ever spent<br>
-Do you know the paths we walked<br>
-The memories we never talked<br>
-About and all the hopes so sweet<br>
-Until they faltered underneath<br>
-The bruising years that lay ahead<br>
-And now behind us that lay dead<br>
-Tell me who I ought to be<br>
-Now that you're again with me
-==== [[I'm Not the One (poem)]] ====
+Robe the fields in scarlet<br>
+Array them in peony red<br>
+Run through the nodding flowers<br>
+And kiss them upon their heads
-I'm not the one you wanted me to be<br>
+=== 8/23/17 ===
-I haven't crossed the bridges that you marked<br>
-I didn't walk down roads you'd paved for me<br>
-I learned my own tongue with which to speak<br>
-You never could quite get your hold on me<br>
-I would mutely wait for you to leave<br>
-I poured a waterfall to sail away<br>
-You said the words, but I never did believe
-==== [[Us (poem)]] ====
+==== [[green (poem)]] ====
-Why is the sun on your hair like heaven<br>
+green pastures<br>
-The kiss of the wind like the breath of love<br>
+soft meadows<br>
-The feel of your hand under mine pure wonder<br>
+trees shelter<br>
-How did I ever become one of ''us''
+wild flowers<br>
+sun shining<br>
-==== [[Regret (poem)]] ====
+blue water<br>
+new summer<br>
+leaves growing
-Blood drips down your unforgiven fingers<br>
+==== [[in whispers (poem)]] ====
-This is the guilt that plagues you and it lingers<br>
-If you could undo your deeds and try again<br>
-Nothing would really change, not even then
-==== [[moon (poem)]] ====
+somebody tell me in whispers<br>
+the way that the world turns<br>
+won't fly out like a flare<br>
+from the sun and be lost in the earth<br>
+somebody hold me in silence<br>
+breathe comfort into my back<br>
+that the end of all things is not here yet<br>
+that there is still time to grow yet
-The moon is young<br>
+==== [[Sacrifice (poem)]] ====
-It shines new light<br>
-The night gives way<br>
-Without a fight
-=== 9/10/17 ===
+Burn the road behind my path. <br>
+Unwind the yarn before me. <br>
+Let the bridges fall in charred<br>
+ashes upon the creek. <br>
+Only one of us shall step<br>
+into the dark, cold breach. <br>
+I know you want to sacrifice, <br>
+but I love you. It's going to be me.
-==== [[Prize (poem)]] ====
-someone give the girl a prize<br>
+=== 8/24/17 ===
-and open up your eyes
-:: while you're at it<br>
-and maybe realize<br>
-when you're looking for her prize
-:: that you ain't it
-=== 9/11/17 ===
+==== [[Mine (poem)]] ====
-==== [[moonlight (poem)]] ====
+Tell me what is mine
+:: your heart?
+I've never counted time
+:: by mine
+but I will count your breaths
+:: and breathe
-moonlight on piano keys<br>
+==== [[though I may roam (poem)]] ====
-you play my heart<br>
-forget to breathe
-==== [[dawn (poem)]] ====
+new house, new home<br>
+though I may roam<br>
+your heart will be<br>
+true north to me
-sun is dancing on my heart<br>
+==== [[day and night (poem)]] ====
-new mornings singing deep in me<br>
-joy reborn from old wounds healed<br>
-through my night has stolen dawn
-==== [[Phoenix (poem)]] ====
+morning, wake<br>
+within your arms<br>
+I lean on you<br>
+your shoulder's warm
-I was a quiet little girl once<br>
+by day, we're working<br>
-That girl died<br>
+side by side<br>
-You might have killed her<br>
+my many plans<br>
-I stand upon her grave<br>
+in you confide
-And I sing my war cry<br>
-You might have given me life
-==== [[some days (poem)]] ====
+evening rest<br>
+finds me at last<br>
+asleep with you<br>
+our troubles past
-some days<br>
+==== [[Contentment (poem)]] ====
-I feel so tired<br>
-so heavy<br>
-under the clouds<br>
-I feel like<br>
-they think I want the moon<br>
-I want<br>
-the night
-==== [[Question and Answer (poem)]] ====
+Warm fuzzies<br>
+Loud purr<br>
+Cat paws<br>
+Soft fur
-I am a question mark today<br>
+==== [[claim (poem)]] ====
-I meet each brand new face and say<br>
-Are the answer thrown my way?
-==== [[Quiet Tonight (poem)]] ====
+they tell me she won't love you<br>
+no one ever taught her how<br>
+they tell me she will kill you<br>
+should you ever let her down<br>
+they haven't seen her spear me<br>
+with her steady, certain gaze<br>
+nor felt her hand like iron<br>
+as she claims me in all ways
-The wind is quiet tonight<br>
+=== 8/25/17 ===
-inside my head<br>
-Where the rush and the pellmell howling<br>
-was instead<br>
-But tonight you sit beside me<br>
-in quiet hope<br>
-And tonight our hands our bound<br>
-with comfort's rope
-==== [[the dancer (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 011 (poem)]] ====
-I am the quiet blade<br>
+Lord, the day before me
-the dancer in the whirlwind<br>
+:: is beautiful and bright
-the silent whisper before<br>
+Lord, the work before me
-the cutting flames<br>
+:: is heavier than I'd like
-whisper my name<br>
+But You, O Lord, are perfect
-and I will come to you<br>
+:: and, Lord, You are my strength
-sharp as the arrow flies
+Carry me and guide me
+:: today in everything
-==== [[the spark (poem)]] ====
+==== [[chambers of my heart (poem)]] ====
-I have been wandering through the wilderness<br>
+plant a seed of love
-Keeping my eyes open in case I see you<br>
+:: and kindness blooms
-You are elusive, I'm not even sure what you are<br>
+fill with tenderness
-But the wilderness grows wilder and more expansive
+:: these empty rooms
+the chambers of my heart
+:: where hope still looms
-I plunge the deep green grasses over my head<br>
+==== [[avenue (poem)]] ====
-I plow through the icy waters of rivers run through<br>
-I wait by the stillness of eddies with fire and bread<br>
-Yet you still beckon from where I have never been
-There in the night are the speckled stars<br>
+an avenue of autumn trees<br>
-Dancing like silk-robed heiresses of the night<br>
+the faintest chill upon the breeze<br>
-Like a candle, you fly to my side, like a spark of fire<br>
+revel in the falling leaves<br>
-Without permission you fly down into my heart
+flaming bright before they freeze
-And there in the widerness lands I learn how to smile<br>
+=== 8/27/17 ===
-For you are the joy I once lost while out in the dark
-==== [[camping (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Moving (poem)]] ====
-This wasn't exactly my idea of a good time.<br>
+Today, we pack<br>
-Why did you bring me out here?<br>
+Tomorrow, we load<br>
-I'm an indoor girl—
+The day after that,<br>
-: I want my books,
+The movers come in<br>
-: my fireplace,
+All because<br>
-: my ''cup of tea''.
+The home that we chose<br>
-Enjoy the thrill of becoming one with nature.<br>
+Is lovelier far<br>
-I'm sure it will hug you back.<br>
+Than the one that we're in
-I'm off to my night,
-: my warm lamplight,
-: and mostly my cup of tea!
-==== [[Cup of Comfort (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Blame (poem)]] ====
-There is peace in my cup of tea with my Father God<br>
+You throw around blame<br>
-Comfort in my poetry and grateful laud<br>
+Like it's all a big game<br>
-For assurance You will bring out of this good
+There's no equity in your name<br>
+Your reputation<br>
+Is built on lies<br>
+All your gold is but false prize
-==== [[Journeyman (poem)]] ====
+== September 2017 ==
-I'm starting to get the hang of being me<br>
+=== 9/1/17 ===
-I fear<br>
-You used to wonder when I'd grow into my skin<br>
-I'm playing it by ear<br>
-And the melody breaks, I'm dancing on the floor<br>
-This is the truth you didn't know<br>
-And more
-==== [[Clean Break (poem)]] ====
+==== [[A Grain of Faith (poem)]] ====
-Finally we are something new<br>
+There is light at the end of this very long tunnel<br>
-I asked my heart for things to do<br>
+There is hope at the top of this very tall funnel<br>
-That were not lost so deep in you<br>
+Though a grain of faith is what reaches me<br>
-For I am me and you are you
+That's enough to bring eternity
-==== [[Cup (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Enough To (poem)]] ====
-I am an empty cup<br>
+Got enough sorrows to drown in<br>
-You try to fill me up<br>
+Got enough prayers I must pray<br>
-But I am also sealed<br>
+Got enough words in my heart now<br>
-And only by me filled
+That are too heavy to say<br>
+But I open my mouth to a song and<br>
+I lift up my hands as I sway<br>
+If I can just find room to dance now<br>
+I will feel better today
-==== [[bones (poem)]] ====
+==== [[and I (poem)]] ====
-bones break<br>
+somebody tell me why<br>
-burn<br>
+you are the reason why<br>
-ache<br>
+my heart beats in my chest<br>
-grind them down<br>
+and I<br>
-to dust<br>
+can't seem to make it<br>
-make<br>
+beat without you
-a promise when<br>
-you build<br>
-again<br>
-don't forget<br>
-to put<br>
-love in
-==== [[Pinpricks (poem)]] ====
+==== [[scorn (poem)]] ====
-Someone let the light in<br>
+[[The Database (Character)]]
-to my soul.<br>
-Poke a few bright pinpricks<br>
-through my hull.<br>
-I promise not to sink<br>
-but rise in flight<br>
-over the winds of hope<br>
-and wings of light.
-=== 9/12/17 ===
+you ask me why I'm caustic<br>
+you ask me why I'm harsh<br>
+you ask me what's my problem<br>
+but I'm barely getting warm
-==== [[Prayer 013 (poem)]] ====
+have you seen my future<br>
+or have you seen my past<br>
+if you had looked at either<br>
+you would never have to ask
-Good morning, God, it's me again<br>
+==== [[alas, my friend (poem)]] ====
-Your small, sincere, bad weather friend<br>
-Always new trials for You to mend<br>
-But also gratitude I send
-But not enough, it's also true<br>
+there will be other moments<br>
-I want to always think of You<br>
+and other conversations<br>
-To act in love, to always do<br>
+there will be other heart-to-hearts<br>
-What is right and see it through
+you are not two nations<br>
+your minds will meet again<br>
+you will again be friends<br>
+this isn't where it ends<br>
+you're just too strong to bend
-You are God of all to me<br>
+==== [[excuses (poem)]] ====
-The fullness of eternity<br>
-Look on me with sympathy<br>
-And remake me utterly
-==== [[Prayer 014 (poem)]] ====
+don't bother me with excuses<br>
+don't trouble me with your lies<br>
+I can read the truth myself<br>
+from right within your eyes
+=== 9/3/17 ===
-Joy is of the saints and radiant praise<br>
+==== [[seeking wisdom (poem)]] ====
-is become their garments and their days<br>
-are full of giving thanks, of ceaseless praise.<br>
-Make me one of these in all my ways!
-==== [[haiku (for songbirds)]] ====
+wisdom guards the steps of those<br>
+who turn to you, who listen with their ear<br>
+to that quiet voice of stillness<br>
+inside us, for Your voice is very near
-songbirds flutter sweet<br>
+though our breath is near us, though our tongues<br>
-like harps, new leaves in the wind,<br>
+speak the words we hold within our cheek<br>
-music to my heart
+nearer yet is precious Holy Spirit<br>
+Yours the voice and words I truly seek
-==== [[anticipation (poem)]] ====
+==== [[A Day (poem)]] ====
-have you ever noticed<br>
+This has been a ''day''
-the silence before the bomb goes off,<br>
+:: You had one too
-the fall before a moment shatters<br>
+(not that You are finite)
-like glass—<br>
+:: I know You
-that is the moment I remember to breathe<br>
+had patience as I learned
-and forget how much it will hurt
+:: to ever praise
+through the very worst
+:: of my bad days
-==== [[Throne (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 012 (poem)]] ====
-My heart is like a rock but not a stone<br>
+You take charge and<br>
-It won't be moved from love I've founded on it<br>
+You make plans<br>
-It's neither cold nor hard, the sun beats on it<br>
+Let me follow<br>
-This is where my God will be enthroned
+Your commands<br>
+I give all<br>
+My steps to You<br>
+Guard them, Lord,<br>
+And keep me true
-==== [[Mixed (poem)]] ====
+==== [[count (poem)]] ====
-My skin is not a symbol<br>
+count me in;
-nor a mantle of my authority.<br>
+:: count me out
-I am the color I am<br>
+every moment adding up<br>
-because I'm me.
+I'm in twice;
+:: I'm out twice
+bring me in and fill my cup<br>
+you are home;
+:: I am yours
+surely, that should count for two<br>
+I will wait;
+:: I'm with you
+nothing else will ever do
-==== [[Can you? (poem)]] ====
+==== [[silver (poem)]] ====
-Teach me something today<br>
+Canon: [[:Category:Mirror|The Mirror]]
-I want to cry tonight<br>
-Can you mop up my tears<br>
-in time for morning light?
-==== [[Move Me (poem)]] ====
+silver beckons<br>
+over hands<br>
-Move me to tears<br>
+silver slips<br>
-I'll cry<br>
+in gleaming strands<br>
-for you<br>
+I whisper silver<br>
-on cue<br>
+do my will<br>
-when the silence speaks<br>
+it shifts, obeys<br>
-with the eloquence<br>
+and then lies still
-of your heart.
-==== [[moments in hope (poem)]] ====
+==== [[A Treat (poem)]] ====
-There are moments in hope<br>
+blow me kisses<br>
-That make you remember the moments<br>
+make them sweet<br>
-When night closed in<br>
+seeing you<br>
-Around your throat<br>
+has been my treat
-Curtains fall before the moment<br>
-Where triumph comes out of the dark.<br>
-Those are the moments you remember<br>
-That the dark days pass<br>
-The sun breaks through<br>
-And the storm rolls back in the sky.
-=== 9/13/17 ===
+=== 9/5/17 ===
-==== [[Prayer 015 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[winter fire (poem)]] ====
-Good morning, Lord, the day is new<br>
+Tell me what you think<br>
-Help me live it all for you<br>
+of me<br>
-Guide my steps in every way<br>
+on winter nights, when skies are cold<br>
-Guard me in Your love today
+and blue;<br>
+you touch me like I'm made of fire<br>
+holding hands<br>
+to keep you warm.
-==== [[introduction (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Everything (poem)]] ====
-I assume you haven't forgotten<br>
+Everything I ever wanted<br>
-me<br>
+Everything you meant to me<br>
-I know you know that I<br>
+Castles in the sky you promised<br>
-remember you<br>
+But you the ground beneath my feet<br>
-the way you slam banged your way into<br>
+All I dreamed of, all I hoped for<br>
-my life<br>
+Was your arms to comfort me
-with purpose, vivid stare<br>
-on mine<br>
-slammed your tray in front of mine<br>
-your books<br>
-on top of mine and smiled<br>
-we're going to be best friends
-==== [[Safe (poem)]] ====
+==== [[this my land (poem)]] ====
-My heart is fragile<br>
+beauty<br>
-Prone to break<br>
+the eye of the beholder<br>
-But in your hands<br>
+wonder<br>
-I'm sure it's safe
+the ear of the one who hears<br>
+behold<br>
+my skies, the mountains rising<br>
+here<br>
+from the earth I call my home
-==== [[Entire (poem)]] ====
+==== [[glitch (poem)]] ====
-I miss the girl I used to be<br>
+The cat, she naps;<br>
-Did you know her? Gradually<br>
+Her baleful eye<br>
-We all forget to really see<br>
+is on me if I twitch<br>
-Beyond our parts to entirety
+She shifts, her claws<br>
+are on me! I<br>
+cry protest at the switch.<br>
+Barely disturbed,<br>
+she purrs to sleep,<br>
+as though 'twas but a glitch.
-==== [[depths (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Shadowed (poem)]] ====
-I am many things<br>
+Inkblot shadow<br>
-''I'' don't even know<br>
+You curl around my edges<br>
-the ends of me
+I nudge the window<br>
+Open. Breathe<br>
+You touch my mouth instead
-=== 9/14/17 ===
+==== [[Troth (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Prayer 015 (poem)]] ====
+I will burn like wind<br>
+Blown from the sun<br>
+Bear my light and heat<br>
+Or you must run<br>
+Thus then I may know<br>
+If you're the one
-God of every perfect thing<br>
+=== 9/6/17 ===
-Take my morning under wing<br>
-Help me work and honor You<br>
-Keep my thoughts and motives true
-==== [[hold on (poem)]] ====
+==== [[little songbird (poem)]] ====
-Some days we're so weary<br>
+little songbird,<br>
-and we don't know how to feel,<br>
+wander far<br>
-to bring our hearts in line,<br>
+but remember who you are<br>
-and to bring our minds to heel.<br>
+precious child,<br>
-I wish that in those moments,<br>
+spread your wings<br>
-on those days, I could be fine.<br>
+fly and then come home to me
-Instead, I will hold on,<br>
-so please hold on, O love of mine.
-==== [[not nice (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/7/17 ===
-[[Air (Character)]] from [[:Category:Kingdoms and Thorn|Kingdoms and Thorn]]
+==== [[How Fly the Hours (poem)]] ====
-"I want you to find a nice girl,"<br>
+How do the hours fly by so quickly?<br>
-is what they said.<br>
+Like wind in my hair, not slow sands dripping<br>
-I have two ears. I hear them.<br>
+Through time's turning glass, through the hours slipping<br>
-You're being a nice boy but stop.<br>
+My hands in its mane, sweaty and gripping<br>
-I'm not a nice girl,<br>
+Time seems to fly if our mouths are laughing<br>
-I do not say.<br>
+And doesn't slow down when we fall to weeping<br>
-I haven't talked to people<br>
+Ride, bright stallion, into the bright sun<br>
-for the sake of it, for years.<br>
+I'll see you when the day is done
-No matter what they tell you<br>
-about what it's like out there,<br>
-when someone makes the call<br>
-and you take blood on your soul to do it,<br>
-nice gets left behind<br>
-somewhere along the way.<br>
-Some people miss it.<br>
-I don't remember it to miss.
-==== [[the shape of me (poem)]] ====
+==== [[too bad (poem)]] ====
-I used to know the shape of me<br>
+shut up<br>
-The way my soul fit into flesh<br>
+you tell me who I am<br>
-The burning night set me aflame<br>
+you tell me who to be<br>
-I've yet to catalog the ash<br>
+you tell me who I was raised to be<br>
-The heart of me still skips a beat<br>
+but this does not define me<br>
-At words, at books, at cups of tea<br>
+I am who I am<br>
-The child in me still falls to her knees<br>
+and who I choose to be<br>
-Before the King of Eternity<br>
+and if you think the world don't like that<br>
-But every day within me cries<br>
+too bad, I'll still be me
-Something pained and nearly mute<br>
-I cannot name the thing I need<br>
-To understand myself anew<br>
-I close my eyes and hear it keen<br>
-Waiting for true peace to be
-==== [[Maybe (poem)]] ====
+==== [[rust (poem)]] ====
-I don't make sense in the table of contents<br>
+I will survive<br>
-You can't read the cover and know the book<br>
+though I drown in the dust<br>
-Open me up, with patience, with love<br>
+though you beat me and fail me<br>
-Maybe you'll read it, maybe you'll learn
+though the air turns to rust<br>
+Yes, I will survive<br>
+though the night chills to cold<br>
+my wounds will heal over<br>
+the blood will grow old
-==== [[scriven (poem)]] ====
+==== [[I am sharp edges (poem)]] ====
-You and I have been here before<br>
+My bones dance
-I like to think we're recursive<br>
+:: I am sharp edges
-You open your insides, write me in<br>
+You are the whetstone
-Over and over and over again<br>
+:: of my face
-I write you into my bone and my flesh<br>
+The sun flames
-We don't even feel the impending crash<br>
+:: like a bright spotlight
-You into me and me into you<br>
+Watch me dance
-Whatever occurs, I'll carry you through
+:: in this harsh place
-=== 9/15/17 ===
+=== 9/8/17 ===
-==== [[Prayer 016 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Tell Me Now (poem)]] ====
-Good morning to my Father God,<br>
+Tell me who I ought to be<br>
-Wrap me in Your perfect love.<br>
+I'll tell you who you are to me<br>
-Help me love the way You do.<br>
+Tell you all the things I knew<br>
-I need Your help to make it through:<br>
+When you and I were only true<br>
-The day began unpleasantly.<br>
+In friendship and platonic love<br>
-I need to praise in everything,<br>
+When you and I were still enough<br>
-But only by Your strength in me<br>
+I'll tell you all the roads we went<br>
-Can my heart give thanks and sing.
+And all the dreams we ever spent<br>
+Do you know the paths we walked<br>
+The memories we never talked<br>
+About and all the hopes so sweet<br>
+Until they faltered underneath<br>
+The bruising years that lay ahead<br>
+And now behind us that lay dead<br>
+Tell me who I ought to be<br>
+Now that you're again with me
-==== [[in pieces (poem)]] ====
+==== [[I'm Not the One (poem)]] ====
-I am in pieces<br>
+I'm not the one you wanted me to be<br>
-Try not to shatter me<br>
+I haven't crossed the bridges that you marked<br>
-Maybe I'll return the favor
+I didn't walk down roads you'd paved for me<br>
+I learned my own tongue with which to speak<br>
+You never could quite get your hold on me<br>
+I would mutely wait for you to leave<br>
+I poured a waterfall to sail away<br>
+You said the words, but I never did believe
-==== [[break a leg (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Us (poem)]] ====
+Why is the sun on your hair like heaven<br>
+The kiss of the wind like the breath of love<br>
+The feel of your hand under mine pure wonder<br>
+How did I ever become one of ''us''
+==== [[Regret (poem)]] ====
-I am a child compared to you<br>
+Blood drips down your unforgiven fingers<br>
-don't underestimate me now<br>
+This is the guilt that plagues you and it lingers<br>
-or you will regret it when we're through<br>
+If you could undo your deeds and try again<br>
-break a leg and take a bow
+Nothing would really change, not even then
-==== [[arms (poem)]] ====
+==== [[moon (poem)]] ====
-The moon is full<br>
+The moon is young<br>
-The sky is bright<br>
+It shines new light<br>
-The stars white pinpricks<br>
+The night gives way<br>
-To my sight<br>
+Without a fight
-The wind is cold<br>
-The night is warm<br>
-Because you hold me<br>
-In your arms
-=== 9/16/17 ===
+=== 9/10/17 ===
-==== [[Prayer 017 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prize (poem)]] ====
-God, please keep my heart on You<br>
+someone give the girl a prize<br>
-Fill my thoughts with love that's true<br>
+and open up your eyes
-Grant me peace against my goals<br>
+:: while you're at it<br>
-Heal my wounds and make me whole<br>
+and maybe realize<br>
-I want to live a child of God<br>
+when you're looking for her prize
-I long to know the path I trod<br>
+:: that you ain't it
-Was one that would be right to You<br>
-Please grace me with this hope in You
+=== 9/11/17 ===
-=== 9/17/17 ===
+==== [[moonlight (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Tell Me (poem)]] ====
+moonlight on piano keys<br>
+you play my heart<br>
+forget to breathe
-C'mon<br>
+==== [[dawn (poem)]] ====
-Tell me something<br>
-Make it a good one<br>
-Make it like flowers after the rain<br>
-Still dripping from the storm<br>
-Like sunshine playing<br>
-Hide and seek through forest trees<br>
-Cover your secrets with history<br>
-Let them drip with the rain of our memories<br>
-Whisper your truths between secrets<br>
-That I will never know<br>
-C'mon, tell me<br>
-Something
-=== 9/18/17 ===
+sun is dancing on my heart<br>
+new mornings singing deep in me<br>
+joy reborn from old wounds healed<br>
+through my night has stolen dawn
-==== [[Many Things (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Phoenix (poem)]] ====
-I am many things<br>
+I was a quiet little girl once<br>
-None of them yours<br>
+That girl died<br>
-So many parts of me<br>
+You might have killed her<br>
-Mine, not ours<br>
+I stand upon her grave<br>
-Count down every second<br>
+And I sing my war cry<br>
-Count the hours<br>
+You might have given me life
-This is the end of the line<br>
-My soul devours
-==== [[Spectrum (poem)]] ====
+==== [[some days (poem)]] ====
-There's this thing called tact, it eluded<br>
+some days<br>
-My grasping fingers when I was born<br>
+I feel so tired<br>
-I walked on my toes like a dancer<br>
+so heavy<br>
-Long past three years old<br>
+under the clouds<br>
-There's always one, our littlest<br>
+I feel like<br>
-The odd one out, emphasis ''odd''<br>
+they think I want the moon<br>
-No one knew what to do with me<br>
+I want<br>
-But they never thought to ask<br>
+the night
-It's not just me that doesn't<br>
-Ask the important questions before<br>
-There's no help for the answer<br>
-No escape and no way out<br>
-I sit in the midst of a spectrum<br>
-High-functioning, an uneasy truce<br>
-With the world that spins around me<br>
-Sorry, I say, didn't mean to offend
-==== [[call them tears (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Question and Answer (poem)]] ====
-when did I wander into this rain-soaked world<br>
+I am a question mark today<br>
-you call it good, I call it wet with the tears<br>
+I meet each brand new face and say<br>
-I never could quite hold them back— baby<br>
+Are the answer thrown my way?
-that's what they called me, maybe not wrong<br>
-but don't think that means I am a child today<br>
-I know the way to live through the tears<br>
-and I am strong
-==== [[bloom (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Quiet Tonight (poem)]] ====
-bloom<br>
+The wind is quiet tonight<br>
-with the promise<br>
+inside my head<br>
-the sun made to the flowers<br>
+Where the rush and the pellmell howling<br>
-you will grow<br>
+was instead<br>
-and I<br>
+But tonight you sit beside me<br>
-will smile on you<br>
+in quiet hope<br>
-if no one else<br>
+And tonight our hands our bound<br>
-can see
+with comfort's rope
-==== [[pieces (poem)]] ====
+==== [[the dancer (poem)]] ====
-I am but the pieces of myself<br>
+I am the quiet blade<br>
-today<br>
+the dancer in the whirlwind<br>
-do you think that I am broken<br>
+the silent whisper before<br>
-I can't say<br>
+the cutting flames<br>
-I wish that I could see myself within<br>
+whisper my name<br>
-instead I cried<br>
+and I will come to you<br>
-at least I hope you know<br>
+sharp as the arrow flies
-I really tried
-==== [[rest a while (poem)]] ====
+==== [[the spark (poem)]] ====
-maybe I'm just a little weary<br>
+I have been wandering through the wilderness<br>
-I'll rest a while in the images<br>
+Keeping my eyes open in case I see you<br>
-of your beautiful nature<br>
+You are elusive, I'm not even sure what you are<br>
-wake up again tomorrow, refreshed<br>
+But the wilderness grows wilder and more expansive
-ready to weary myself with work again
-=== 9/19/17 ===
+I plunge the deep green grasses over my head<br>
+I plow through the icy waters of rivers run through<br>
+I wait by the stillness of eddies with fire and bread<br>
+Yet you still beckon from where I have never been
-==== [[Prayer 018 (poem)]] ====
+There in the night are the speckled stars<br>
+Dancing like silk-robed heiresses of the night<br>
+Like a candle, you fly to my side, like a spark of fire<br>
+Without permission you fly down into my heart
-Today, dear God, is another day<br>
+And there in the widerness lands I learn how to smile<br>
-I want to stop and really pray<br>
+For you are the joy I once lost while out in the dark
-Please help live as You would want<br>
-Please help me not to give affront<br>
-You know I was not born with tact<br>
-And get hung up on irrelevant facts<br>
-You know I have a lot to do<br>
-Please help me keep my eyes on You<br>
-And focus on the things I should<br>
-In short, please help me to be good
-==== [[backstory (poem)]] ====
+==== [[camping (poem)]] ====
-I used to know you<br>
+This wasn't exactly my idea of a good time.<br>
-You drifted in my life, my bed<br>
+Why did you bring me out here?<br>
-I never wanted emptiness instead<br>
+I'm an indoor girl—
-My heart still knows you<br>
+: I want my books,
-Standing there right now adrift<br>
+: my fireplace,
-Before me again, I lift<br>
+: my ''cup of tea''.
-The promises from my heart<br>
+Enjoy the thrill of becoming one with nature.<br>
-And set them on a mental shelf<br>
+I'm sure it will hug you back.<br>
-Because I'd also promised myself<br>
+I'm off to my night,
-"You need to find someone else<br>
+: my warm lamplight,
-To help you." "There is no one else."<br>
+: and mostly my cup of tea!
-"You hate me, remember?"<br>
-"I never did. I lied."<br>
-You lie down beside me. I let you.<br>
-The morning breaks too soon.
-==== [[In Love (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Cup of Comfort (poem)]] ====
-I have inked your name on my heart<br>
+There is peace in my cup of tea with my Father God<br>
-Written it in my life blood<br>
+Comfort in my poetry and grateful laud<br>
-From here until the end of time<br>
+For assurance You will bring out of this good
-Remember me in your love
-=== 9/20/17 ===
+==== [[Journeyman (poem)]] ====
-==== [[In the Night (poem)]] ====
+I'm starting to get the hang of being me<br>
+I fear<br>
+You used to wonder when I'd grow into my skin<br>
+I'm playing it by ear<br>
+And the melody breaks, I'm dancing on the floor<br>
+This is the truth you didn't know<br>
+And more
-[[Laiha (Character)]] + [[Kalia (Character)]]
+==== [[Clean Break (poem)]] ====
-----
+Finally we are something new<br>
+I asked my heart for things to do<br>
+That were not lost so deep in you<br>
+For I am me and you are you
-The night is dark and quiet<br>
+==== [[Cup (poem)]] ====
-I remember lying between<br>
-My parents—''your'' parents<br>
-Hush, now, you say, they're ours<br>
-It's supposed to be my first night alone<br>
-But you are here with me now<br>
-The gratitude is thick in my throat<br>
-As under your arm, I dream
-==== [[like air (poem)]] ====
+I am an empty cup<br>
+You try to fill me up<br>
+But I am also sealed<br>
+And only by me filled
-I need you like air<br>
+==== [[bones (poem)]] ====
-in the bottom of my lungs<br>
-in the depths of the sea<br>
-of people I do not know<br>
-nor do I care<br>
-when you are with me<br>
-hands and hearts cling<br>
-every place that we go
-==== [[Wind Stepper (poem)]] ====
+bones break<br>
+burn<br>
+ache<br>
+grind them down<br>
+to dust<br>
+make<br>
+a promise when<br>
+you build<br>
+again<br>
+don't forget<br>
+to put<br>
+love in
-[[Laiha (Character)]] + [[Kalia (Character)]]
+==== [[Pinpricks (poem)]] ====
-I dance through the wind<br>
+Someone let the light in<br>
-and step through the walls<br>
+to my soul.<br>
-with you at my back<br>
+Poke a few bright pinpricks<br>
-we answer who calls
+through my hull.<br>
+I promise not to sink<br>
+but rise in flight<br>
+over the winds of hope<br>
+and wings of light.
-==== [[like a fire (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/12/17 ===
-my blood burns in my veins<br>
+==== [[Prayer 013 (poem)]] ====
-like a fire<br>
-you're everything I want<br>
-sweet desire<br>
-this is what it feels like<br>
-love entire
-==== [[Defer (poem)]] ====
+Good morning, God, it's me again<br>
+Your small, sincere, bad weather friend<br>
+Always new trials for You to mend<br>
+But also gratitude I send
-Tell me in the morning light<br>
+But not enough, it's also true<br>
-What you think of me tonight<br>
+I want to always think of You<br>
-But for now just hold it in<br>
+To act in love, to always do<br>
-I want to feel your touch again<br>
+What is right and see it through
-Not wonder if I get it right
-==== [[Burn Me Down (poem)]] ====
+You are God of all to me<br>
+The fullness of eternity<br>
+Look on me with sympathy<br>
+And remake me utterly
-My bones may break beneath you<br>
+==== [[Prayer 014 (poem)]] ====
-But I won't quake before you<br>
-Burn me to my ashen dust<br>
-And feel the phoenix wings that rush
-=== 9/21/17 ===
+Joy is of the saints and radiant praise<br>
+is become their garments and their days<br>
+are full of giving thanks, of ceaseless praise.<br>
+Make me one of these in all my ways!
-==== [[twins (poem)]] ====
+==== [[haiku (for songbirds)]] ====
-[[:Category:Kingdoms and Thorn|Kingdoms and Thorn]]: [[Air (Character)|Air]] + [[Shadow (Team 14)|Shadow]]
+songbirds flutter sweet<br>
+like harps, new leaves in the wind,<br>
+music to my heart
-----
+==== [[anticipation (poem)]] ====
-the pieces of you blossom beneath my skin<br>
+have you ever noticed<br>
-like parts of our soul were once born kin<br>
+the silence before the bomb goes off,<br>
-but somewhere along the way I was severed from my twin<br>
+the fall before a moment shatters<br>
-together we are not whole, but we are together again
+like glass—<br>
+that is the moment I remember to breathe<br>
+and forget how much it will hurt
-==== [[Strength (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Throne (poem)]] ====
-I am not a hurricane<br>
+My heart is like a rock but not a stone<br>
-It's my own choice and my own gain<br>
+It won't be moved from love I've founded on it<br>
-To give through every ounce of pain<br>
+It's neither cold nor hard, the sun beats on it<br>
-To do what must be done again<br>
+This is where my God will be enthroned
-There are kinds of quiet strengths<br>
-And those who go to any lengths
-=== 9/22/2017 ===
+==== [[Mixed (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Brighter (poem)]] ====
+My skin is not a symbol<br>
+nor a mantle of my authority.<br>
+I am the color I am<br>
+because I'm me.
-Sometimes the world seems brighter<br>
+==== [[Can you? (poem)]] ====
-Every light in the sky turned up to eleven<br>
-And shining down because it sees you<br>
-You are the difference between dusk and dawn<br>
-The hopeless dirge of endings and bright beginnings<br>
-Take my hand, and I won't let go<br>
-I promise when the sun comes up<br>
-When the sunlight streams over you and shines<br>
-So much brighter, so much lighter<br>
-That I won't walk away but stay<br>
-Until long past the falling night
-==== [[Feel the Fire (poem)]] ====
+Teach me something today<br>
+I want to cry tonight<br>
+Can you mop up my tears<br>
+in time for morning light?
-The sun is burning<br>
+==== [[Move Me (poem)]] ====
-A heat mirage in my bones<br>
-I don't need to see the light<br>
-To feel it, the heat wave, the tide<br>
-Rising from under my skin in my heart<br>
-Where fire lives and is born<br>
-Come feel me, come hold me<br>
-Cling 'til your skin turns to ash<br>
-I am burning with light
+Move me to tears<br>
+I'll cry<br>
+for you<br>
+on cue<br>
+when the silence speaks<br>
+with the eloquence<br>
+of your heart.
+==== [[moments in hope (poem)]] ====
-=== 9/25/17 ===
+There are moments in hope<br>
+That make you remember the moments<br>
-==== [[The Elements (poem)]] ====
+When night closed in<br>
+Around your throat<br>
+Curtains fall before the moment<br>
+Where triumph comes out of the dark.<br>
+Those are the moments you remember<br>
+That the dark days pass<br>
+The sun breaks through<br>
+And the storm rolls back in the sky.
-The elements of us<br>
+=== 9/13/17 ===
-Are deeper than the earth<br>
-We're made of heart and fire<br>
-We give the light new birth<br>
-The stars spin from our souls<br>
-Our wind is made of breath<br>
-The names beneath our skins<br>
-Are more powerful than death
-==== [[their nova light (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 015 (poem)]] ====
-we talk about it sometimes, these feelings<br>
+Good morning, Lord, the day is new<br>
-blooming like wings inside our breasts<br>
+Help me live it all for you<br>
-too small to contain the fluttering<br>
+Guide my steps in every way<br>
-of our new hearts, their nova light<br>
+Guard me in Your love today
-Can you see the universal expansion,<br>
-the curve of galaxies spinning out<br>
-from within us as we cry,<br>
-the birth pangs of new life
-==== [[Entwined (poem)]] ====
+==== [[introduction (poem)]] ====
-Drink of me and I of you<br>
+I assume you haven't forgotten<br>
-We were two and now we're one<br>
+me<br>
-Lives entwined like DNA<br>
+I know you know that I<br>
-For always, like the moon and sun
+remember you<br>
+the way you slam banged your way into<br>
+my life<br>
+with purpose, vivid stare<br>
+on mine<br>
+slammed your tray in front of mine<br>
+your books<br>
+on top of mine and smiled<br>
+we're going to be best friends
-==== [[We Tremble (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Safe (poem)]] ====
+My heart is fragile<br>
+Prone to break<br>
+But in your hands<br>
+I'm sure it's safe
-The bones of the trees are breaking<br>
+==== [[Entire (poem)]] ====
-The blood of the leaves is flaming<br>
-In fiercest blush and flaking<br>
-Away from the tender skin<br>
-I feel so fragile and shaking<br>
-Pressed against bark and naming<br>
-This inward tremulous quaking<br>
-Imagine that we are kin
-=== 9/26/17 ===
+I miss the girl I used to be<br>
+Did you know her? Gradually<br>
+We all forget to really see<br>
+Beyond our parts to entirety
-==== [[when we wander (poem)]] ====
+==== [[depths (poem)]] ====
-shall we be okay when we wander?<br>
+I am many things<br>
-shall we always see with eyes of wonder,<br>
+''I'' don't even know<br>
-never let the cares of world jade,<br>
+the ends of me
-and never let our love together fade?<br>
-==== [[autumn's letters (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/14/17 ===
-wind is due<br>
+==== [[Prayer 015 (poem)]] ====
-in summer skies<br>
-days grow chill<br>
+God of every perfect thing<br>
-the reasons why<br>
+Take my morning under wing<br>
-are autumn's letters<br>
+Help me work and honor You<br>
-to the sun<br>
+Keep my thoughts and motives true
-missing when<br>
-the days were young
-=== 9/27/17 ===
+==== [[hold on (poem)]] ====
-==== [[let the light (poem)]] ====
+Some days we're so weary<br>
+and we don't know how to feel,<br>
+to bring our hearts in line,<br>
+and to bring our minds to heel.<br>
+I wish that in those moments,<br>
+on those days, I could be fine.<br>
+Instead, I will hold on,<br>
+so please hold on, O love of mine.
-Hey, let the light come in<br>
+==== [[not nice (poem)]] ====
-Throw open the shades<br>
-and the hanging curtains<br>
-When the sunlight fades<br>
-let the chandeliers gleam<br>
-and candles flicker bright<br>
-with the dancing moonbeams<br>
-passing through the room<br>
-and fill my sight
-==== [[tide of wonder (poem)]] ====
+[[Air (Character)]] from [[:Category:Kingdoms and Thorn|Kingdoms and Thorn]]
-Don't think about the pain<br>
+"I want you to find a nice girl,"<br>
-Look on beauty<br>
+is what they said.<br>
-Think of pretty things<br>
+I have two ears. I hear them.<br>
-The sweetest fall of rain<br>
+You're being a nice boy but stop.<br>
-The flowers shaking droplets off<br>
+I'm not a nice girl,<br>
-And mountains sweeping to the sky<br>
+I do not say.<br>
-The melody a songbird sings<br>
+I haven't talked to people<br>
-The prairie grasses stretch away<br>
+for the sake of it, for years.<br>
-The sunrise of a brand new day<br>
+No matter what they tell you<br>
-Let them wash over your soul<br>
+about what it's like out there,<br>
-A tide of wonder keeps you whole
+when someone makes the call<br>
+and you take blood on your soul to do it,<br>
+nice gets left behind<br>
+somewhere along the way.<br>
+Some people miss it.<br>
+I don't remember it to miss.
-==== [[Seeker (poem)]] ====
+==== [[the shape of me (poem)]] ====
-Come now, little seeker,<br>
+I used to know the shape of me<br>
-wanderer through the trove<br>
+The way my soul fit into flesh<br>
-of treasures I have gathered,<br>
+The burning night set me aflame<br>
-listen while you rove.<br>
+I've yet to catalog the ash<br>
-You are wise and brave!<br>
+The heart of me still skips a beat<br>
-But braver still you'll be<br>
+At words, at books, at cups of tea<br>
-if of all the things you seek,<br>
+The child in me still falls to her knees<br>
-seek wisdom faithfully.
+Before the King of Eternity<br>
+But every day within me cries<br>
-==== [[Fly (poem)]] ====
+Something pained and nearly mute<br>
+I cannot name the thing I need<br>
+To understand myself anew<br>
+I close my eyes and hear it keen<br>
+Waiting for true peace to be
+==== [[Maybe (poem)]] ====
-I'm not the girl you want me to be<br>
+I don't make sense in the table of contents<br>
-My soul's too bright, my song's too free<br>
+You can't read the cover and know the book<br>
-I hope that you'll eventually<br>
+Open me up, with patience, with love<br>
-Come around and fly with me
+Maybe you'll read it, maybe you'll learn
-==== [[Redemption Verses II. And Christ the Power (poem)]] ====
+==== [[scriven (poem)]] ====
-Worthy is the God of heaven<br>
+You and I have been here before<br>
-He who claimed most sinful man<br>
+I like to think we're recursive<br>
-Saved His pitiful, ignorant child<br>
+You open your insides, write me in<br>
-Out of her own hand<br>
+Over and over and over again<br>
-Were I helpless, besides broken<br>
+I write you into my bone and my flesh<br>
-Maybe I could claim excuse<br>
+We don't even feel the impending crash<br>
-But the helpers God has given<br>
+You into me and me into you<br>
-Were put to wrongful use<br>
+Whatever occurs, I'll carry you through
-Powerful imagination<br>
-A mind that serves my wayward thoughts<br>
-Must be reined by Christlike impulse<br>
-To go the way it ought<br>
-And Christ the power that was given<br>
-By Christ, grace for me bought
-=== 9/28/17 ===
+=== 9/15/17 ===
-==== [[fade (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 016 (poem)]] ====
-remember me?<br>
+Good morning to my Father God,<br>
-I never disappeared<br>
+Wrap me in Your perfect love.<br>
-though you had wanted it<br>
+Help me love the way You do.<br>
-and when the time draws near<br>
+I need Your help to make it through:<br>
-you will remember it<br>
+The day began unpleasantly.<br>
-all those sleepless nights<br>
+I need to praise in everything,<br>
-when you burned me<br>
+But only by Your strength in me<br>
-to give you light enough<br>
+Can my heart give thanks and sing.
-by which to see<br>
-I used to fade away<br>
-before the morning<br>
-you would look for me<br>
-a silent warning<br>
-I did not disappear <br>
-to run away<br>
-you will wish I did<br>
-instead of stay
-==== [[(haiku for waking)]] ====
+==== [[in pieces (poem)]] ====
-morning's light wakes me<br>
+I am in pieces<br>
-heartbeat rush and a sharp turn<br>
+Try not to shatter me<br>
-meet the rainy dawn
+Maybe I'll return the favor
-==== [[(haiku for dreaming)]] ====
+==== [[break a leg (poem)]] ====
-dreams come in snatches<br>
+I am a child compared to you<br>
-like hummingbirds flit, their wings<br>
+don't underestimate me now<br>
-hum but can't be seen
+or you will regret it when we're through<br>
+break a leg and take a bow
-==== [[the crown (poem)]] ====
+==== [[arms (poem)]] ====
-you think you see me falling underwater<br>
+The moon is full<br>
-you think it's possible for me to drown<br>
+The sky is bright<br>
-in my ocean of imagination<br>
+The stars white pinpricks<br>
-not understanding that I wear the crown<br>
+To my sight<br>
-I ride upon the waves that I have drawn out<br>
+The wind is cold<br>
-and make tsunami tides my chariot<br>
+The night is warm<br>
-the world cresting 'round me I have driven<br>
+Because you hold me<br>
-with the mental powers like a lariat<br>
+In your arms
-granted at my birth and in my voice<br>
-open up the skies and loose the thunder<br>
-every image poured into this ocean<br>
-comes reflected back at me in wonder
-==== [[between the sparks (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/16/17 ===
-I have been waiting in silence between the sparks<br>
+==== [[Prayer 017 (poem)]] ====
-Out of my soul comes light amidst the dark
-=== 9/29/17 ===
+God, please keep my heart on You<br>
+Fill my thoughts with love that's true<br>
+Grant me peace against my goals<br>
+Heal my wounds and make me whole<br>
+I want to live a child of God<br>
+I long to know the path I trod<br>
+Was one that would be right to You<br>
+Please grace me with this hope in You
-==== [[don't forget me (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/17/17 ===
-Two Ogunn children.
+==== [[Tell Me (poem)]] ====
-----
+C'mon<br>
+Tell me something<br>
+Make it a good one<br>
+Make it like flowers after the rain<br>
+Still dripping from the storm<br>
+Like sunshine playing<br>
+Hide and seek through forest trees<br>
+Cover your secrets with history<br>
+Let them drip with the rain of our memories<br>
+Whisper your truths between secrets<br>
+That I will never know<br>
+C'mon, tell me<br>
+Something
-don't forget me, iehofen<br>
+=== 9/18/17 ===
-when the streets run colder than now<br>
-and the warmth between our hands is gone<br>
-and we no longer sleep beneath the stars<br>
-but under covered roofs<br>
-and no longer eat the borrowed bread<br>
-but earn it by our sweat and knowing ways<br>
-don't forget me then, remember<br>
-the way we wove ourselves like armor<br>
-around each other's hearts and find<br>
-me again where it matters<br>
-inside your heart
-==== [[the spark, the brightness (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Many Things (poem)]] ====
-Memory like clay in clever fingers<br>
+I am many things<br>
-Like bits of data between the lightning sparks<br>
+None of them yours<br>
-I have grown with you in my mind always<br>
+So many parts of me<br>
-Why do others need to hear these words?<br>
+Mine, not ours<br>
-All I want is the spark, the brightness<br>
+Count down every second<br>
-Seeping into my dark, my mind<br>
+Count the hours<br>
-Lit with the lamp of understanding<br>
+This is the end of the line<br>
-Grown in your own heart
+My soul devours
-=== 9/30/17 ===
+==== [[Spectrum (poem)]] ====
+There's this thing called tact, it eluded<br>
+My grasping fingers when I was born<br>
+I walked on my toes like a dancer<br>
+Long past three years old<br>
+There's always one, our littlest<br>
+The odd one out, emphasis ''odd''<br>
+No one knew what to do with me<br>
+But they never thought to ask<br>
+It's not just me that doesn't<br>
+Ask the important questions before<br>
+There's no help for the answer<br>
+No escape and no way out<br>
+I sit in the midst of a spectrum<br>
+High-functioning, an uneasy truce<br>
+With the world that spins around me<br>
+Sorry, I say, didn't mean to offend
-==== [[Prayer 018 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[call them tears (poem)]] ====
-Cleanse me, Father God<br>
+when did I wander into this rain-soaked world<br>
-And fill with love<br>
+you call it good, I call it wet with the tears<br>
-Every empty place<br>
+I never could quite hold them back— baby<br>
-I've not enough<br>
+that's what they called me, maybe not wrong<br>
-Mercy in my blood<br>
+but don't think that means I am a child today<br>
-Nor bones of grace<br>
+I know the way to live through the tears<br>
-I need Your eyes of love<br>
+and I am strong
-In my own face
-==== [[the children ask (poem)]] ====
+==== [[bloom (poem)]] ====
-Can I ever be redeemed<br>
+bloom<br>
-With all I've done and all I've seen<br>
+with the promise<br>
-And no regrets upon my lips<br>
+the sun made to the flowers<br>
-For the road that came to this<br>
+you will grow<br>
-Only all that drove me to<br>
+and I<br>
-Do the things I had to do<br>
+will smile on you<br>
-That is what the children ask<br>
+if no one else<br>
-They seek their answers to the past<br>
+can see
-Look with hope to future days<br>
-Shall they wear their chains always<br>
-Can they ever be forgiven<br>
-Accepted once again by Heaven<br>
-From them can their sins be driven<br>
-And grace anew be to them given
-==== [[prayer for waking (poem)]] ====
+==== [[pieces (poem)]] ====
-wake my soul from untender dusk<br>
+I am but the pieces of myself<br>
-bring back the light of day in my heart<br>
+today<br>
-break off the chains and clean away rust<br>
+do you think that I am broken<br>
-reignite that heavenly spark<br>
+I can't say<br>
-that I might shine and banish the dark
+I wish that I could see myself within<br>
+instead I cried<br>
+at least I hope you know<br>
+I really tried
-== October 2017 ==
+==== [[rest a while (poem)]] ====
-=== 10/1/17 ===
+maybe I'm just a little weary<br>
+I'll rest a while in the images<br>
+of your beautiful nature<br>
+wake up again tomorrow, refreshed<br>
+ready to weary myself with work again
-==== [[Number the night (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/19/17 ===
-Hey, the waters run down like sand<br>
+==== [[Prayer 018 (poem)]] ====
-through the hourglass<br>
-Number the night on your fingertips, <br>
-hours like stars falling down<br>
-in the meteor shower<br>
-I see the lights, flares and sparks<br>
-and I shiver<br>
-beneath your hot kisses like arrows<br>
-unquivered<br>
-Fingers brush fletching, pull string<br>
-we fly apart in its wake
-=== 10/2/17 ===
+Today, dear God, is another day<br>
+I want to stop and really pray<br>
+Please help live as You would want<br>
+Please help me not to give affront<br>
+You know I was not born with tact<br>
+And get hung up on irrelevant facts<br>
+You know I have a lot to do<br>
+Please help me keep my eyes on You<br>
+And focus on the things I should<br>
+In short, please help me to be good
-==== [[For Morning (poem)]] ====
+==== [[backstory (poem)]] ====
-Good morning<br>
+I used to know you<br>
-New week<br>
+You drifted in my life, my bed<br>
-New joys<br>
+I never wanted emptiness instead<br>
-I will seek<br>
+My heart still knows you<br>
-The hummingbirds hum<br>
+Standing there right now adrift<br>
-The songbirds sing<br>
+Before me again, I lift<br>
-Sweet butterflies<br>
+The promises from my heart<br>
-Take colorful wing<br>
+And set them on a mental shelf<br>
-My morning<br>
+Because I'd also promised myself<br>
-Will be<br>
+"You need to find someone else<br>
-Bright joy<br>
+To help you." "There is no one else."<br>
-If I see<br>
+"You hate me, remember?"<br>
-The light in my day<br>
+"I never did. I lied."<br>
-The blessings that come<br>
+You lie down beside me. I let you.<br>
-The goodness that is<br>
+The morning breaks too soon.
-A life with God's Son<br>
-Through trial's pain<br>
-My Lord<br>
-He will keep<br>
-And guard
-==== [[Don't Cry (poem)]] ====
+==== [[In Love (poem)]] ====
-So we spilt a little<br>
+I have inked your name on my heart<br>
-Don't cry<br>
+Written it in my life blood<br>
-I could give you all the reasons why<br>
+From here until the end of time<br>
-The sun just came up a minute ago<br>
+Remember me in your love
-Peeking like a parent over comforting horizon<br>
-The stars moved in their courses<br>
-A wish!<br>
-Look up and smile like a child<br>
-I dream of perfection<br>
-I pursue and I grasp with both hands<br>
-But I cannot hasten its coming<br>
-Nor draw back the water, the tears I have spilt<br>
-Don't cry<br>
-Let the river run its course
-==== [[under my ribs (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/20/17 ===
-They rattle around in my ribcage<br>
+==== [[In the Night (poem)]] ====
-Like fluttering heartbeats, ragged breaths<br>
-Words that cannot get out<br>
-Open my mouth through my heart<br>
-And release them out of the depths
-==== [[worlds without end (poem)]] ====
+[[Laiha (Character)]] + [[Kalia (Character)]]
-worlds without end<br>
+----
-I look for you, friend<br>
-where the sun will go nova<br>
-and the stars wink out, over<br>
-when the moon falls to blood<br>
-and is gone altogether<br>
-I'll pass through the flood<br>
-until we are together
-=== 10/3/17 ===
+The night is dark and quiet<br>
+I remember lying between<br>
+My parents—''your'' parents<br>
+Hush, now, you say, they're ours<br>
+It's supposed to be my first night alone<br>
+But you are here with me now<br>
+The gratitude is thick in my throat<br>
+As under your arm, I dream
-==== [[when joy awakes (poem)]] ====
+==== [[like air (poem)]] ====
-light strikes my heart in the morning<br>
+I need you like air<br>
-I wake when it penetrates<br>
+in the bottom of my lungs<br>
-when joy is awakened within me<br>
+in the depths of the sea<br>
-and my soul becomes full up of thanks<br>
+of people I do not know<br>
-to the God of my life, He who knows me<br>
+nor do I care<br>
-and loves me with mercy and grace
+when you are with me<br>
+hands and hearts cling<br>
+every place that we go
-==== [[Prayer 019 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Wind Stepper (poem)]] ====
-There's a song in my heart<br>
+[[Laiha (Character)]] + [[Kalia (Character)]]
-How I love You! I love You!<br>
-I ask from my heart<br>
-O God, help me to love You!
-==== [[(haiku for morning tea)]] ====
+I dance through the wind<br>
+and step through the walls<br>
+with you at my back<br>
+we answer who calls
-heat between my hands<br>
+==== [[like a fire (poem)]] ====
-on winter mornings' rising<br>
-heart rises to day
-==== [[(haiku for touch)]] ====
+my blood burns in my veins<br>
+like a fire<br>
+you're everything I want<br>
+sweet desire<br>
+this is what it feels like<br>
+love entire
-they say holding tea<br>
+==== [[Defer (poem)]] ====
-is like warm human touch, that<br>
-we can't live without
-==== [[(haiku for impatience)]] ====
+Tell me in the morning light<br>
+What you think of me tonight<br>
+But for now just hold it in<br>
+I want to feel your touch again<br>
+Not wonder if I get it right
-scald my tongue on tea<br>
+==== [[Burn Me Down (poem)]] ====
-too fresh, I wait impatiently<br>
-too short, sip again
-==== [[(haiku for patience)]] ====
+My bones may break beneath you<br>
+But I won't quake before you<br>
+Burn me to my ashen dust<br>
+And feel the phoenix wings that rush
-wait in peace, accept<br>
+=== 9/21/17 ===
-the flying sun, hectic days<br>
-I am the storm's eye
-==== [[humanity (poem)]] ====
+==== [[twins (poem)]] ====
-feel what I feel<br>
+[[:Category:Kingdoms and Thorn|Kingdoms and Thorn]]: [[Air (Character)|Air]] + [[Shadow (Team 14)|Shadow]]
-under the surface<br>
-you are human too<br>
-don't forget that<br>
-but also don't forget<br>
-I am not you
-==== [[Days (poem)]] ====
+----
-late night<br>
+the pieces of you blossom beneath my skin<br>
-with pain<br>
+like parts of our soul were once born kin<br>
-don't cry<br>
+but somewhere along the way I was severed from my twin<br>
-just rain<br>
+together we are not whole, but we are together again
-and sing<br>
-your heart<br>
-be light<br>
-breathe out<br>
-I wake<br>
-heart screams<br>
-I praise<br>
-I dream
-==== [[Join the Club (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Strength (poem)]] ====
-People never ask me if I mind<br>
+I am not a hurricane<br>
-the way life settles in my cracks<br>
+It's my own choice and my own gain<br>
-and aches and bleeds and tears and burns<br>
+To give through every ounce of pain<br>
-But that is life, this school<br>
+To do what must be done again<br>
-of a world has never been fair<br>
+There are kinds of quiet strengths<br>
-We are all granted trials and pain
+And those who go to any lengths
-==== [[when it's over (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/22/2017 - START OF AUTUMN ===
-wake me up when it's over<br>
+==== [[Brighter (poem)]] ====
-when the sun careens out of the sky<br>
-when the horizon forgets where it's parked at<br>
-when the birds all forget how to fly
-wake me up when the seas go<br>
+Sometimes the world seems brighter<br>
-swirling away like a tide<br>
+Every light in the sky turned up to eleven<br>
-an endless tide swelling outward<br>
+And shining down because it sees you<br>
-lost where all lost things abide
+You are the difference between dusk and dawn<br>
+The hopeless dirge of endings and bright beginnings<br>
+Take my hand, and I won't let go<br>
+I promise when the sun comes up<br>
+When the sunlight streams over you and shines<br>
+So much brighter, so much lighter<br>
+That I won't walk away but stay<br>
+Until long past the falling night
-wake me up when the stars go<br>
+==== [[Feel the Fire (poem)]] ====
-vanishing one by one<br>
-when the mountains fall into the ocean<br>
-when even the islands run
-wake me up when it's over<br>
+The sun is burning<br>
-when you and I are the only ones left<br>
+A heat mirage in my bones<br>
-when hearts and souls only survive<br>
+I don't need to see the light<br>
-when you're woven into my weft
+To feel it, the heat wave, the tide<br>
+Rising from under my skin in my heart<br>
+Where fire lives and is born<br>
+Come feel me, come hold me<br>
+Cling 'til your skin turns to ash<br>
+I am burning with light
-=== 10/4/17 ===
+=== 9/25/17 ===
-==== [[prayer for the morning (poem)]] ====
+==== [[The Elements (poem)]] ====
-morning dark before the sun<br>
+The elements of us<br>
-wakes up and starts her day<br>
+Are deeper than the earth<br>
-morning silent, I'm the one<br>
+We're made of heart and fire<br>
-who's up with naught to say<br>
+We give the light new birth<br>
-I drink my cup of morning tea<br>
+The stars spin from our souls<br>
-sleepily, I pray<br>
+Our wind is made of breath<br>
-God be kind and look on me<br>
+The names beneath our skins<br>
-please live in me today
+Are more powerful than death
-==== [[(haiku for fall)]] ====
+==== [[their nova light (poem)]] ====
-cool breezes, chill winds<br>
+we talk about it sometimes, these feelings<br>
-so the fall season begins<br>
+blooming like wings inside our breasts<br>
-the leaves blow away
+too small to contain the fluttering<br>
+of our new hearts, their nova light<br>
+Can you see the universal expansion,<br>
+the curve of galaxies spinning out<br>
+from within us as we cry,<br>
+the birth pangs of new life
-==== [[Here (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Entwined (poem)]] ====
-waking feels too hard<br>
+Drink of me and I of you<br>
-yet here I am<br>
+We were two and now we're one<br>
-my limbs are heavy, tired<br>
+Lives entwined like DNA<br>
-here I am<br>
+For always, like the moon and sun
-my eyelids close in sleep<br>
-I open them<br>
+==== [[We Tremble (poem)]] ====
-the day is come to me<br>
-so here I am
-==== [[season of rains (poem)]] ====
+The bones of the trees are breaking<br>
+The blood of the leaves is flaming<br>
+In fiercest blush and flaking<br>
+Away from the tender skin<br>
+I feel so fragile and shaking<br>
+Pressed against bark and naming<br>
+This inward tremulous quaking<br>
+Imagine that we are kin
-I am come into a season of rains<br>
+=== 9/26/17 ===
-life springs forth from the mercy fall<br>
-I will grow in the midst of pain<br>
-a beautiful flower, though I am small
-==== [[my autumn heart (poem)]] ====
+==== [[when we wander (poem)]] ====
-heart under leaves<br>
+shall we be okay when we wander?<br>
-that crackle, are fragile<br>
+shall we always see with eyes of wonder,<br>
-my heart is the earth<br>
+never let the cares of world jade,<br>
-that won't break
+and never let our love together fade?<br>
-==== [[Passing the Horizon (poem)]] ====
+==== [[autumn's letters (poem)]] ====
-You cannot escape the event horizon of the black hole<br>
+wind is due<br>
-by doing nothing or wallowing in your soul,<br>
+in summer skies<br>
-nor can another drag you from its clutches<br>
+days grow chill<br>
-nor steal from under your arms your crutches.<br>
+the reasons why<br>
-Neither was any city built in a single day;<br>
+are autumn's letters<br>
-Just so you cannot simply teleport away.<br>
+to the sun<br>
-Every moment, every thought is yours to decide<br>
+missing when<br>
-whether in or out you will abide.<br>
+the days were young
-Not in a moment do the colors begin to change,<br>
-not in one decision to try to see the light,<br>
-not in a day, a week, a month, or more:<br>
-only if you persist forevermore.
-==== [[The Crash (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/27/17 ===
-Patient zero<br>
+==== [[let the light (poem)]] ====
-Epicenter<br>
-I warned you<br>
-Not to get too close<br>
-Everything hurts<br>
-I beg of you<br>
-Just please<br>
-Don't let go
-=== 10/5/17 ===
+Hey, let the light come in<br>
+Throw open the shades<br>
+and the hanging curtains<br>
+When the sunlight fades<br>
+let the chandeliers gleam<br>
+and candles flicker bright<br>
+with the dancing moonbeams<br>
+passing through the room<br>
+and fill my sight
-==== [[do these bones weep? (poem)]] ====
+==== [[tide of wonder (poem)]] ====
-do these bones weep<br>
+Don't think about the pain<br>
-does my soul seep<br>
+Look on beauty<br>
-into a hundred cracks<br>
+Think of pretty things<br>
-like a heart's rivulets<br>
+The sweetest fall of rain<br>
-bathe in a freshblood stream<br>
+The flowers shaking droplets off<br>
-emotion swimming in dreams<br>
+And mountains sweeping to the sky<br>
-weave me a raft afloat<br>
+The melody a songbird sings<br>
-of love, of promises, hope
+The prairie grasses stretch away<br>
+The sunrise of a brand new day<br>
+Let them wash over your soul<br>
+A tide of wonder keeps you whole
-==== [[affection (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Seeker (poem)]] ====
-you are the object of my affection<br>
+Come now, little seeker,<br>
-in my eye approaching perfection<br>
+wanderer through the trove<br>
-I've not forgotten what you mean to me<br>
+of treasures I have gathered,<br>
-for I'll always love you eternally
+listen while you rove.<br>
+You are wise and brave!<br>
+But braver still you'll be<br>
+if of all the things you seek,<br>
+seek wisdom faithfully.
-==== [[the blood (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Fly (poem)]] ====
-call me out on the blood I shed today<br>
+I'm not the girl you want me to be<br>
-never mind to ask me where it's from<br>
+My soul's too bright, my song's too free<br>
-I won't talk about the red stains on my sleeve<br>
+I hope that you'll eventually<br>
-if you'll just do what's right and walk away<br>
+Come around and fly with me
-never mind that blood is where I live<br>
-and in my mind and heart I don't forgive<br>
-the stepping stones I walked on to this place<br>
-so I must abandon self to grace
-==== [[lit from my soul (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Redemption Verses II. And Christ the Power (poem)]] ====
-where is the light I was promised<br>
+Worthy is the God of heaven<br>
-in the midst of the darkness<br>
+He who claimed most sinful man<br>
-the candles you lit from my soul<br>
+Saved His pitiful, ignorant child<br>
-flaming and whole<br>
+Out of her own hand<br>
-keening song of praise<br>
+Were I helpless, besides broken<br>
-rising within<br>
+Maybe I could claim excuse<br>
-on the dawn of my conscience awaking<br>
+But the helpers God has given<br>
-and speaking again
+Were put to wrongful use<br>
+Powerful imagination<br>
+A mind that serves my wayward thoughts<br>
+Must be reined by Christlike impulse<br>
+To go the way it ought<br>
+And Christ the power that was given<br>
+By Christ, grace for me bought
-==== [[pleasant dreams (poem)]] ====
+=== 9/28/17 ===
-[[Air (Character)|Air]]/[[West (Character)|West]]
+==== [[fade (poem)]] ====
-peace is an illusion here
+remember me?<br>
+I never disappeared<br>
+though you had wanted it<br>
+and when the time draws near<br>
+you will remember it<br>
+all those sleepless nights<br>
+when you burned me<br>
+to give you light enough<br>
+by which to see<br>
+I used to fade away<br>
+before the morning<br>
+you would look for me<br>
+a silent warning<br>
+I did not disappear <br>
+to run away<br>
+you will wish I did<br>
+instead of stay
-tell me you at least knew that
+==== [[(haiku for waking)]] ====
-knew why my breath grows sharp
+morning's light wakes me<br>
+heartbeat rush and a sharp turn<br>
+meet the rainy dawn
-when you stare at me—
+==== [[(haiku for dreaming)]] ====
-:: stop staring.
+dreams come in snatches<br>
+like hummingbirds flit, their wings<br>
+hum but can't be seen
-I like you, you know
+==== [[the crown (poem)]] ====
-and I keep coming back for more
+you think you see me falling underwater<br>
+you think it's possible for me to drown<br>
+in my ocean of imagination<br>
+not understanding that I wear the crown<br>
+I ride upon the waves that I have drawn out<br>
+and make tsunami tides my chariot<br>
+the world cresting 'round me I have driven<br>
+with the mental powers like a lariat<br>
+granted at my birth and in my voice<br>
+open up the skies and loose the thunder<br>
+every image poured into this ocean<br>
+comes reflected back at me in wonder
-you laugh with me, smile
+==== [[between the sparks (poem)]] ====
-and listen without questions
+I have been waiting in silence between the sparks<br>
+Out of my soul comes light amidst the dark
-but that doesn't change tonight
+=== 9/29/17 ===
-don't ask me for answers
+==== [[don't forget me (poem)]] ====
-when I wake more sharply
+Two Ogunn children.
-than my breath ever gets when awake
+----
-don't touch me, don't comfort
+don't forget me, iehofen<br>
+when the streets run colder than now<br>
+and the warmth between our hands is gone<br>
+and we no longer sleep beneath the stars<br>
+but under covered roofs<br>
+and no longer eat the borrowed bread<br>
+but earn it by our sweat and knowing ways<br>
+don't forget me then, remember<br>
+the way we wove ourselves like armor<br>
+around each other's hearts and find<br>
+me again where it matters<br>
+inside your heart
-when I start shaking from dreams
+==== [[the spark, the brightness (poem)]] ====
-peace is an illusion here
+Memory like clay in clever fingers<br>
+Like bits of data between the lightning sparks<br>
+I have grown with you in my mind always<br>
+Why do others need to hear these words?<br>
+All I want is the spark, the brightness<br>
+Seeping into my dark, my mind<br>
+Lit with the lamp of understanding<br>
+Grown in your own heart
-I'll give you a smile, drink tea
+=== 9/30/17 ===
-in small sips while you hover
+==== [[Prayer 018 (poem)]] ====
-:: don't ask.
+Cleanse me, Father God<br>
+And fill with love<br>
+Every empty place<br>
+I've not enough<br>
+Mercy in my blood<br>
+Nor bones of grace<br>
+I need Your eyes of love<br>
+In my own face
-those were my nightmares, companions
+==== [[the children ask (poem)]] ====
-you are my pleasant dreams
+Can I ever be redeemed<br>
+With all I've done and all I've seen<br>
-==== [[Stack Trace (poem)]] ====
+And no regrets upon my lips<br>
+For the road that came to this<br>
+Only all that drove me to<br>
+Do the things I had to do<br>
+That is what the children ask<br>
+They seek their answers to the past<br>
+Look with hope to future days<br>
+Shall they wear their chains always<br>
+Can they ever be forgiven<br>
+Accepted once again by Heaven<br>
+From them can their sins be driven<br>
+And grace anew be to them given
-There was an error<br>
+==== [[prayer for waking (poem)]] ====
-I know<br>
-You broke the world<br>
-tippety-tap<br>
-I'm sorry there are 500 stars<br>
-and none of them lead to neverland
-==== [[kindred spirits (poem)]] ====
+wake my soul from untender dusk<br>
+bring back the light of day in my heart<br>
+break off the chains and clean away rust<br>
+reignite that heavenly spark<br>
+that I might shine and banish the dark
-I've been missing you since I was born<br>
+== October 2017 ==
-I'll meet you soon if I am good<br>
-and maybe I won't be alone<br>
-my sister twin, my kindred soul
-==== [[bah humbug (poem)]] ====
+=== 10/1/17 ===
-bah humbug!<br>
+==== [[Number the night (poem)]] ====
-leave me be<br>
-stop finding bugs<br>
-to send to me<br>
-all I want<br>
-right now is sleep<br>
-all I've got<br>
-is work and tea
-==== [[above (poem)]] ====
+Hey, the waters run down like sand<br>
+through the hourglass<br>
+Number the night on your fingertips, <br>
+hours like stars falling down<br>
+in the meteor shower<br>
+I see the lights, flares and sparks<br>
+and I shiver<br>
+beneath your hot kisses like arrows<br>
+unquivered<br>
+Fingers brush fletching, pull string<br>
+we fly apart in its wake
-my bones won't break or shatter<br>
+=== 10/2/17 ===
-you can hurt me, it doesn't matter<br>
-in the end, I'll spread my wings<br>
-and soar over everything
-==== [[break me (poem)]] ====
+==== [[For Morning (poem)]] ====
-break me if you can<br>
+Good morning<br>
-I'd like to see you try<br>
+New week<br>
-I will rise from ashes<br>
+New joys<br>
-then you can watch me fly
+I will seek<br>
+The hummingbirds hum<br>
+The songbirds sing<br>
+Sweet butterflies<br>
+Take colorful wing<br>
+My morning<br>
+Will be<br>
+Bright joy<br>
+If I see<br>
+The light in my day<br>
+The blessings that come<br>
+The goodness that is<br>
+A life with God's Son<br>
+Through trial's pain<br>
+My Lord<br>
+He will keep<br>
+And guard
-==== [[pass (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Don't Cry (poem)]] ====
-I have seen the ages pass<br>
+So we spilt a little<br>
-like stone, like water, panes of glass<br>
+Don't cry<br>
-bright reflections only seen<br>
+I could give you all the reasons why<br>
-unchangeable by serf or queen<br>
+The sun just came up a minute ago<br>
-time runs swiftly day by day<br>
+Peeking like a parent over comforting horizon<br>
-I look ahead: eternity<br>
+The stars moved in their courses<br>
-to the work I put my hands<br>
+A wish!<br>
-before this too shall come to pass
+Look up and smile like a child<br>
+I dream of perfection<br>
+I pursue and I grasp with both hands<br>
+But I cannot hasten its coming<br>
+Nor draw back the water, the tears I have spilt<br>
+Don't cry<br>
+Let the river run its course
-==== [[Conversations 007. (poem)]] ====
+==== [[under my ribs (poem)]] ====
-it gets old, expectations<br>
+They rattle around in my ribcage<br>
-put on me like old rags<br>
+Like fluttering heartbeats, ragged breaths<br>
-like burdens or troublesome flies<br>
+Words that cannot get out<br>
-I'm weary of trying to wear them<br>
+Open my mouth through my heart<br>
-you're quiet now<br>
+And release them out of the depths
-you thought it was all so obvious<br>
-the things that needed to be done<br>
-the things that were right<br>
-and here I am telling you no<br>
-it's just what you want<br>
-go find someone else tonight
-=== 10/6/17 ===
+==== [[worlds without end (poem)]] ====
-==== [[(couplet on emptiness)]] ====
+worlds without end<br>
+I look for you, friend<br>
+where the sun will go nova<br>
+and the stars wink out, over<br>
+when the moon falls to blood<br>
+and is gone altogether<br>
+I'll pass through the flood<br>
+until we are together
-Empty me out like a cloud in the storm<br>
+=== 10/3/17 ===
-All of my heart like the rain pouring down
-==== [[blood and ink (poem)]] ====
+==== [[when joy awakes (poem)]] ====
-I have written out my heart<br>
+light strikes my heart in the morning<br>
-in blood and ink<br>
+I wake when it penetrates<br>
-I held it out for you<br>
+when joy is awakened within me<br>
-so take a drink
+and my soul becomes full up of thanks<br>
+to the God of my life, He who knows me<br>
+and loves me with mercy and grace
-=== 10/7/17 ===
+==== [[Prayer 019 (poem)]] ====
-==== [[marriage of minds (poem)]] ====
+There's a song in my heart<br>
+How I love You! I love You!<br>
+I ask from my heart<br>
+O God, help me to love You!
-a marriage of our minds<br>
+==== [[(haiku for morning tea)]] ====
-the way you think a wonder<br>
-how you wonder! marvelous<br>
-I could lose myself in labyrinths<br>
-of the webs you weave and find<br>
-no better partner though I seek<br>
-for a hundred years, a thousand souls<br>
-so come to me, my love, and make me whole
-==== [[Like a Flint (poem)]] ====
+heat between my hands<br>
+on winter mornings' rising<br>
+heart rises to day
-Promise me something, you and I<br>
+==== [[(haiku for touch)]] ====
-Whatever happens will hold onto the light<br>
-Through endless ages and all that's to come<br>
-Our faces, our eyes, will be fixed on the Son
-==== [[Prayer 021 (poem)]] ====
+they say holding tea<br>
+is like warm human touch, that<br>
+we can't live without
-God, be my strength today<br>
+==== [[(haiku for impatience)]] ====
-And the strength of my loved ones, I pray<br>
-Please guard them and keep them in love<br>
-Grant peace to my heart from above
-==== [[(haiku for children)]] ====
+scald my tongue on tea<br>
+too fresh, I wait impatiently<br>
+too short, sip again
-children laugh, so new,<br>
+==== [[(haiku for patience)]] ====
-and the summer wind laughs back<br>
-joy to all our hearts
-==== [[You Always Know (poem)]] ====
+wait in peace, accept<br>
+the flying sun, hectic days<br>
+I am the storm's eye
-''"As for God, his way is perfect..." — Psalm 18:30''
+==== [[humanity (poem)]] ====
-God, You always know<br>
+feel what I feel<br>
-Whether I should stay or go<br>
+under the surface<br>
-What is wrong or right<br>
+you are human too<br>
-Lord, You've saved my life
+don't forget that<br>
+but also don't forget<br>
+I am not you
-==== [[Prayer 022 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Days (poem)]] ====
-Thank You, Father God, for everything You do for me<br>
+late night<br>
-You've seen me through the darkest nights and always comfort me<br>
+with pain<br>
-I hope to live with You in light and love eventually<br>
+don't cry<br>
-Let every moment of my days be preview of eternity
+just rain<br>
+and sing<br>
+your heart<br>
+be light<br>
+breathe out<br>
+I wake<br>
+heart screams<br>
+I praise<br>
+I dream
-==== [[the hundredth (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Join the Club (poem)]] ====
-did You miss me when I'd gone<br>
+People never ask me if I mind<br>
-I went away too far<br>
+the way life settles in my cracks<br>
-I tread the desert sands<br>
+and aches and bleeds and tears and burns<br>
-You are water in a stream<br>
+But that is life, this school<br>
-I come to You and dream
+of a world has never been fair<br>
+We are all granted trials and pain
-=== 10/8/17 ===
+==== [[when it's over (poem)]] ====
-==== [[instrument (poem)]] ====
+wake me up when it's over<br>
+when the sun careens out of the sky<br>
+when the horizon forgets where it's parked at<br>
+when the birds all forget how to fly
-the notes You play upon my mind<br>
+wake me up when the seas go<br>
-like strains of strings of heavenly light<br>
+swirling away like a tide<br>
-filling with orchestral brilliance my<br>
+an endless tide swelling outward<br>
-soul and heart— Come, fill me, Christ!
+lost where all lost things abide
+wake me up when the stars go<br>
+vanishing one by one<br>
+when the mountains fall into the ocean<br>
+when even the islands run
-==== [[raveled (poem)]] ====
+wake me up when it's over<br>
+when you and I are the only ones left<br>
+when hearts and souls only survive<br>
+when you're woven into my weft
-you are a symphony<br>
+=== 10/4/17 ===
-I could never quite unhear<br>
-without undoing cell by cell<br>
-all myself, all I hold dear
-==== [[let my light (poem)]] ====
+==== [[prayer for the morning (poem)]] ====
-I used to know myself<br>
+morning dark before the sun<br>
-and the way the light poured out<br>
+wakes up and starts her day<br>
-through the tiny pinpricks<br>
+morning silent, I'm the one<br>
-now I only pray that light is shining still
+who's up with naught to say<br>
+I drink my cup of morning tea<br>
+sleepily, I pray<br>
+God be kind and look on me<br>
+please live in me today
-==== [[where I live (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for fall)]] ====
-this is where I live<br>
+cool breezes, chill winds<br>
-where the oceans deep inside me<br>
+so the fall season begins<br>
-crash waves upon the shore<br>
+the leaves blow away
-of grace, my God Creator<br>
-and His Living Word<br>
-I live where I am kneeling<br>
-in prayer within my soul<br>
-one day I've been promised<br>
-my God will make me whole
-==== [[Christ, the Glory (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Here (poem)]] ====
-Christ is the glory of my days<br>
+waking feels too hard<br>
-the light that shines before my eyes<br>
+yet here I am<br>
-the hope on which I set my gaze<br>
+my limbs are heavy, tired<br>
-the reaching hand to help me rise
+here I am<br>
+my eyelids close in sleep<br>
+I open them<br>
+the day is come to me<br>
+so here I am
-==== [[prostrate (poem)]] ====
+==== [[season of rains (poem)]] ====
-The rock on which I stand, on which I fall<br>
+I am come into a season of rains<br>
-You catch me when I stumble, Lord of all<br>
+life springs forth from the mercy fall<br>
-Your mercy healing to my wounds, Your grace<br>
+I will grow in the midst of pain<br>
-Unfathomable, I fall upon my face
+a beautiful flower, though I am small
-=== 10/9/17 ===
+==== [[my autumn heart (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Prayer 023 (poem)]] ====
+heart under leaves<br>
+that crackle, are fragile<br>
+my heart is the earth<br>
+that won't break
-God, be merciful to me<br>
+==== [[Passing the Horizon (poem)]] ====
-Pour Your love out in my heart<br>
-Help me also pour it out<br>
-Make me Yours entirely
-==== [[That Long Year (poem)]] ====
+You cannot escape the event horizon of the black hole<br>
+by doing nothing or wallowing in your soul,<br>
+nor can another drag you from its clutches<br>
+nor steal from under your arms your crutches.<br>
+Neither was any city built in a single day;<br>
+Just so you cannot simply teleport away.<br>
+Every moment, every thought is yours to decide<br>
+whether in or out you will abide.<br>
+Not in a moment do the colors begin to change,<br>
+not in one decision to try to see the light,<br>
+not in a day, a week, a month, or more:<br>
+only if you persist forevermore.
-My lips have been unclean<br>
+==== [[The Crash (poem)]] ====
-I've emptied out myself<br>
-The tears of that long year<br>
-Cry, Lord, I'm reaching out
-==== [[Abba (poem)]] ====
+Patient zero<br>
+Epicenter<br>
+I warned you<br>
+Not to get too close<br>
+Everything hurts<br>
+I beg of you<br>
+Just please<br>
+Don't let go
-I have tasted heaven<br>
+=== 10/5/17 ===
-And I have tasted pain<br>
-I cling and seek Your presence<br>
-For I want to take Your name<br>
-My adoptive Father<br>
-I am grateful for Your claim
-==== [[Just the Facts (poem)]] ====
+==== [[do these bones weep? (poem)]] ====
-I'm a walking, talking bundle of insecurities<br>
+do these bones weep<br>
-Didn't they warn you before you wandered into me?<br>
+does my soul seep<br>
-Have you ever asked yourself what you'd do<br>
+into a hundred cracks<br>
-When trapped by a person who doesn't shut up on cue?<br>
+like a heart's rivulets<br>
-I don't get cues, they should have warned you of that<br>
+bathe in a freshblood stream<br>
-And I don't recognize a rhetorical question<br>
+emotion swimming in dreams<br>
-So prepare to get an answer back<br>
+weave me a raft afloat<br>
-I wish I knew more than the meaning of the word tact<br>
+of love, of promises, hope
-I'd like to be acceptable, but I already know the facts<br>
-I'm a walking, talking bundle of insecurities<br>
-Didn't they warn you before you wandered into me?
-==== [[the sands (poem)]] ====
+==== [[affection (poem)]] ====
-I just get so tired sometimes<br>
+you are the object of my affection<br>
-I lie down in the wilderness sands<br>
+in my eye approaching perfection<br>
-They stretch to the far horizons<br>
+I've not forgotten what you mean to me<br>
-Forward and onward and back<br>
+for I'll always love you eternally
-To familiar lands<br>
-I am quiet as I lie here<br>
-The stars are bright overhead<br>
-The air is too hot to breathe<br>
-But don't worry, I don't need much
-==== [[(haiku for silence)]] ====
+==== [[the blood (poem)]] ====
-silence breaks like<br>
+call me out on the blood I shed today<br>
-summer tides flee the ocean<br>
+never mind to ask me where it's from<br>
-only to return
+I won't talk about the red stains on my sleeve<br>
+if you'll just do what's right and walk away<br>
+never mind that blood is where I live<br>
+and in my mind and heart I don't forgive<br>
+the stepping stones I walked on to this place<br>
+so I must abandon self to grace
-==== [[look at me (poem)]] ====
+==== [[lit from my soul (poem)]] ====
-people don't look at me<br>
+where is the light I was promised<br>
-except when I am talking<br>
+in the midst of the darkness<br>
-if they're smart, they look at me<br>
+the candles you lit from my soul<br>
-and then they keep on walking<br>
+flaming and whole<br>
-I am brash and tactless but<br>
+keening song of praise<br>
-I love most faithfully<br>
+rising within<br>
-that doesn't seem to change the fact<br>
+on the dawn of my conscience awaking<br>
-people don't look at me
+and speaking again
+==== [[pleasant dreams (poem)]] ====
-==== [[modern fairytale (poem)]] ====
+[[Air (Character)|Air]]/[[West (Character)|West]]
-They tell you this fairytale<br>
+peace is an illusion here
-about the shy girl<br>
-she's bookish, unpretty<br>
-but beside her, she has this friend<br>
-who crushes on her anyway<br>
-I'm a bookish girl<br>
-shy and a bit unpretty<br>
-but there is no guy friend beside me<br>
-and he certainly has no crush
-==== [[constellations (poem)]] ====
+tell me you at least knew that
-my constellations shine within your eyes<br>
+knew why my breath grows sharp
-how could it be possible you don't realize<br>
-I guide my oceanic way against your north<br>
-true and bright, there is no back and forth
-=== 10/12/17 ===
+when you stare at me—
-==== [[Green Pastures (poem)]] ====
+:: stop staring.
-I will in green pastures lie<br>
+I like you, you know
-You have heard my every cry<br>
-And held me in Your arms of love<br>
+and I keep coming back for more
-Comforting my heart so much
-=== 10/14/17 ===
+you laugh with me, smile
-==== [[Sonnet for a Lamb (poem)]] ====
+and listen without questions
-Let me make some notes on grace<br>
+but that doesn't change tonight
-Freely offered to my race<br>
-Bought with sacrifice so dear<br>
-Poured out with love instead of fear<br>
-He who had the least to lose<br>
-Gave it all: we freely choose<br>
-Whether we accept this gift<br>
-His love, a suture, mends the rift<br>
-And His the power we may use<br>
-To walk the strait and narrow way<br>
-No sinner defiant would e'en choose<br>
-But foolish lambs, they need not stray<br>
-To them the way is clear, as God<br>
-Will guard with love and Shepherd's rod
-==== [[Moments of Relapse (poem)]] ====
+don't ask me for answers
-Moments when an overwhelming urge<br>
+when I wake more sharply
-Washes over like resurging tide<br>
-Relapse like familiar friends who were<br>
-Never friends though often in my mind<br>
-They are not mine, I turn them all away<br>
-And raise the light to start another day
-=== 10/16/17 ===
+than my breath ever gets when awake
-==== [[The Dig (poem)]] ====
+don't touch me, don't comfort
-find the pieces of my heart<br>
+when I start shaking from dreams
-scattered over foreign soil<br>
-shattered in the sands of yours<br>
-walk with me, friend, hand in hand<br>
-we will see the end of seas<br>
-swirl over gleaming edges<br>
-there will lie the ruins of me<br>
-underneath the burnt out bridges<br>
-we will gently sweep the dirt off<br>
-with the brush of archaeologist<br>
-every shard and every image<br>
-reconstructed to perfection<br>
-I will wear my history<br>
-in cracks that show the former glory<br>
-cities built on ruined cities<br>
-towers fall but rise again
-=== 10/17/17 ===
+peace is an illusion here
-==== [[So Long (poem)]] ====
+I'll give you a smile, drink tea
-Until the stars are ash<br>
+in small sips while you hover
-and the moons are dust,<br>
-until the air we breathe<br>
-has wholly turned to rust,<br>
-until the oceans rise<br>
-and wash all land from view,<br>
-so long will I love you<br>
-faithfully and true.
-==== [[the heavens (poem)]] ====
+:: don't ask.
-burn down the heavens, the falling stars<br>
+those were my nightmares, companions
-will speak in the silence: their voices are ours<br>
-we've lived up the night and woke up the dawn<br>
-when will we miss it? right after it's gone<br>
-the world turns 'round and spins in the heaven<br>
-the end of all things is only a given<br>
-so I will choose to make in my mind<br>
-the place where the light of perfection could shine<br>
-open my hands and reach out to the light<br>
-swallow it down and ray out with my might<br>
-open my mouth and let loose all the sun<br>
-don't burn down the heavens until day is done
-=== 10/18/17 ===
+you are my pleasant dreams
-==== [[name the light (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Stack Trace (poem)]] ====
-you forgot my name<br>
+There was an error<br>
-I warned you not to<br>
+I know<br>
-the candles burst in flame<br>
+You broke the world<br>
-and light breaks through<br>
+tippety-tap<br>
-the darkness swarming 'round<br>
+I'm sorry there are 500 stars<br>
-that's why it came<br>
+and none of them lead to neverland
-but darkness cannot conquer<br>
-the brightness' name
-=== 10/19/17 ===
+==== [[kindred spirits (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Contentment (poem)]] ====
+I've been missing you since I was born<br>
+I'll meet you soon if I am good<br>
+and maybe I won't be alone<br>
+my sister twin, my kindred soul
-I could get a spot of tea<br>
+==== [[bah humbug (poem)]] ====
-Maybe yellow, green, or red<br>
-Maybe darker brown instead<br>
-It could taste so mellow, sweet<br>
-Or too fierce for spice to beat<br>
-It could be the warmest roast<br>
-Though it surely wouldn't boast<br>
-I'd drink it all contentedly
-==== [[on joys of tea (poem)]] ====
+bah humbug!<br>
+leave me be<br>
+stop finding bugs<br>
+to send to me<br>
+all I want<br>
+right now is sleep<br>
+all I've got<br>
+is work and tea
-the art of tea<br>
+==== [[above (poem)]] ====
-it is no art<br>
-or not to me<br>
-it is the heart<br>
-of life and warmth,<br>
-replenished strength<br>
-a calming draught<br>
-brings stress to naught<br>
-it's more than art to me
-=== 10/20/17 ===
+my bones won't break or shatter<br>
+you can hurt me, it doesn't matter<br>
+in the end, I'll spread my wings<br>
+and soar over everything
-==== [[aurora (poem)]] ====
+==== [[break me (poem)]] ====
-break me down in tiny pieces<br>
+break me if you can<br>
-watch me gather shattered light<br>
+I'd like to see you try<br>
-spread across the stormy skies<br>
+I will rise from ashes<br>
-aurora in the midst of night<br>
+then you can watch me fly
-I will take your dark and shadows<br>
-dispel them with the flames so bright<br>
-born within my heart's own embers<br>
-cast to heaven in your sight
-==== [[if I wait (poem)]] ====
+==== [[pass (poem)]] ====
-I am quiet tonight<br>
+I have seen the ages pass<br>
-the endless ages have met<br>
+like stone, like water, panes of glass<br>
-in the slopes of light in the moon<br>
+bright reflections only seen<br>
-good things will come to me<br>
+unchangeable by serf or queen<br>
-if I wait, if I do good<br>
+time runs swiftly day by day<br>
-and it doesn't have to be soon
+I look ahead: eternity<br>
+to the work I put my hands<br>
+before this too shall come to pass
-==== [[the fragile words (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Conversations 007. (poem)]] ====
-don't break the silence around my heart<br>
+it gets old, expectations<br>
-don't ask for answers, not now nor soon<br>
+put on me like old rags<br>
-I break the edges, the fragile words<br>
+like burdens or troublesome flies<br>
-that spoke my future into view<br>
+I'm weary of trying to wear them<br>
-I'll hide my soul beneath my heart<br>
+you're quiet now<br>
-and shutter the windows you look within<br>
+you thought it was all so obvious<br>
-my eyes are silent, my whispers still<br>
+the things that needed to be done<br>
-don't break the silence, not now nor soon
+the things that were right<br>
+and here I am telling you no<br>
+it's just what you want<br>
+go find someone else tonight
-=== 10/21/17 ===
+=== 10/6/17 ===
-==== [[speak (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(couplet on emptiness)]] ====
-speak<br>
+Empty me out like a cloud in the storm<br>
-open your lips<br>
+All of my heart like the rain pouring down
-and whisper<br>
-the birds will quiet<br>
-their raucous chorus<br>
-the nighttime music<br>
-of crickets will cease<br>
-I will hold<br>
-my breath to listen<br>
-so please<br>
-speak
-=== 10/26/17 ===
+==== [[blood and ink (poem)]] ====
+I have written out my heart<br>
+in blood and ink<br>
+I held it out for you<br>
+so take a drink
+=== 10/7/17 ===
-==== [[autumn glow (poem)]] ====
+==== [[marriage of minds (poem)]] ====
-Sunlight glows on autumn trees<br>
+a marriage of our minds<br>
-Enlivens, brightens golden leaves<br>
+the way you think a wonder<br>
-Lights the red like living flame<br>
+how you wonder! marvelous<br>
-O the glory branches frame!
+I could lose myself in labyrinths<br>
+of the webs you weave and find<br>
+no better partner though I seek<br>
+for a hundred years, a thousand souls<br>
+so come to me, my love, and make me whole
-==== [[golden hillsides (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Like a Flint (poem)]] ====
-Sunrise makes the hillsides glow<br>
+Promise me something, you and I<br>
-Golden grasses bend and blow<br>
+Whatever happens will hold onto the light<br>
-In the autumn winds—so bright<br>
+Through endless ages and all that's to come<br>
-They make the blue of sky delight
+Our faces, our eyes, will be fixed on the Son
-==== [[between the seasons (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 021 (poem)]] ====
-the morning air is chill from winter's fingers<br>
+God, be my strength today<br>
-and yet the summer sun still stops and lingers<br>
+And the strength of my loved ones, I pray<br>
-lighting up the fields with golden hue<br>
+Please guard them and keep them in love<br>
-'tis the autumn wind that wanders through<br>
+Grant peace to my heart from above
-I have always loved the crispness of the colors<br>
-loved the pathways carpeted in wonder<br>
-a tapestry of leaves in flaming reds<br>
-orange and yellow glowing on their beds<br>
-I love the blowing grasses, the way they dance<br>
-like waves upon the shores of happenstance<br>
-the hills are carpeted in waving gold<br>
-a tide of beauty more than heart can hold<br>
-evening rises with the golden hour<br>
-the trees whisper goodnight, their heads aflower<br>
-all the vibrant colors say goodnight<br>
-winter frost will come with morning light
-=== 10/27/17 ===
+==== [[(haiku for children)]] ====
-==== [[Night Owl (poem)]] ====
+children laugh, so new,<br>
+and the summer wind laughs back<br>
+joy to all our hearts
-Good morning to the morning<br>
+==== [[You Always Know (poem)]] ====
-Before the morning light<br>
-I wake up bright-eyed, early<br>
-It feels like still the night<br>
-My night owl inner clock<br>
-May never know my plight<br>
-Until I learned of mornings<br>
-Before the morning light
-==== [[Is That What We're Calling It (poem)]] ====
+''"As for God, his way is perfect..." — Psalm 18:30''
-You wonder when<br>
+God, You always know<br>
-I turned to you<br>
+Whether I should stay or go<br>
-And whispered, no,<br>
+What is wrong or right<br>
-the sky's not blue,<br>
+Lord, You've saved my life
-if any word I'd ever leave alone–<br>
-precision written to the bone
-==== [[Q & A (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 022 (poem)]] ====
-Questions grow on trees
+Thank You, Father God, for everything You do for me<br>
-:: if you ask me
+You've seen me through the darkest nights and always comfort me<br>
-:: (of course, you didn't)
+I hope to live with You in light and love eventually<br>
-:: there are many things
+Let every moment of my days be preview of eternity
-:: you never did
-Answers, luxuries
+==== [[the hundredth (poem)]] ====
-:: if ever was one
-:: I don't need to know
-:: if ever was
-==== [[(haiku for back to school)]] ====
+did You miss me when I'd gone<br>
+I went away too far<br>
+I tread the desert sands<br>
+You are water in a stream<br>
+I come to You and dream
-school buses clutter<br>
+=== 10/8/17 ===
-streets like leaves, yellow and bright<br>
-roll out red carpet
-==== [[dreams in pictures (poem)]] ====
+==== [[instrument (poem)]] ====
-dreams in pictures<br>
+the notes You play upon my mind<br>
-music rolling over ocean depths<br>
+like strains of strings of heavenly light<br>
-the tides of heart are washing<br>
+filling with orchestral brilliance my<br>
-over memory's sand<br>
+soul and heart— Come, fill me, Christ!
-hear my whispering hopes<br>
-become the land
-==== [[the river (poem)]] ====
+==== [[raveled (poem)]] ====
-where the waters run and play<br>
+you are a symphony<br>
-dancing as they sing<br>
+I could never quite unhear<br>
-the rocks rise up and stand<br>
+without undoing cell by cell<br>
-the water's bounds they keep<br>
+all myself, all I hold dear
-I sit upon the sentinels<br>
-throw pebbles in the stream<br>
+==== [[let my light (poem)]] ====
-branches shelter overhead<br>
-and keep watch over me
-==== [[like stones (poem)]] ====
+I used to know myself<br>
+and the way the light poured out<br>
+through the tiny pinpricks<br>
+now I only pray that light is shining still
-some days I ache right down to my bones<br>
+==== [[where I live (poem)]] ====
-my breath is a whisper too ragged and cold<br>
-you whisper to me, too brightly and bold<br>
-it sinks in my gut like water and stones
-=== 10/30/17 ===
+this is where I live<br>
+where the oceans deep inside me<br>
+crash waves upon the shore<br>
+of grace, my God Creator<br>
+and His Living Word<br>
+I live where I am kneeling<br>
+in prayer within my soul<br>
+one day I've been promised<br>
+my God will make me whole
-==== [[the warmest words (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Christ, the Glory (poem)]] ====
-I love you too—<br>
+Christ is the glory of my days<br>
-the warmest words<br>
+the light that shines before my eyes<br>
-a girl like me<br>
+the hope on which I set my gaze<br>
-has ever heard.<br>
+the reaching hand to help me rise
-I strain and grasp<br>
-to be the best:<br>
-those words would put<br>
-my heart to rest.<br>
-I hear the love<br>
-you wrap them in.<br>
-Won't you say them<br>
-over again?
-== November 2017 ==
+==== [[prostrate (poem)]] ====
-=== 11/1/17 ===
+The rock on which I stand, on which I fall<br>
+You catch me when I stumble, Lord of all<br>
+Your mercy healing to my wounds, Your grace<br>
+Unfathomable, I fall upon my face
-==== [[if the ages (poem)]] ====
+=== 10/9/17 ===
-I'm behind on my time<br>
+==== [[Prayer 023 (poem)]] ====
-If the ages were mine<br>
-I would bring them to pass<br>
-In a bright looking glass<br>
-And the mountains would quake<br>
-The bones of earth shake<br>
-I would pour out the worlds<br>
-In the universe furled<br>
-But I am a speck<br>
-In the endlessness, yet<br>
-My mind is as deep<br>
-As the oceans are steep<br>
-I will sink in the trench<br>
-While I sit on the bench<br>
-The century's tide<br>
-Will go on and I'll ride
-=== 11/2/17 ===
+God, be merciful to me<br>
+Pour Your love out in my heart<br>
+Help me also pour it out<br>
+Make me Yours entirely
-==== [[Fix My Eyes (poem)]] ====
+==== [[That Long Year (poem)]] ====
-The morning blossoms 'round my soul<br>
+My lips have been unclean<br>
-Dawn's fair light is come at last<br>
+I've emptied out myself<br>
-The winter night is fading now<br>
+The tears of that long year<br>
-Leave all my shadows in the past<br>
+Cry, Lord, I'm reaching out
-And fix my eyes upon the sun<br>
-That over all, its brightness cast
-==== [[the riverbed (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Abba (poem)]] ====
-we talk about it don't we<br>
+I have tasted heaven<br>
-the rushing in our ears<br>
+And I have tasted pain<br>
-it drowns out all our history<br>
+I cling and seek Your presence<br>
-and carries all our fears<br>
+For I want to take Your name<br>
-we say it's way down there<br>
+My adoptive Father<br>
-under the bridge and flowing<br>
+I am grateful for Your claim
-we say it's run away<br>
-over the ground to the ocean<br>
-and yet I hear it rushing<br>
-covering what I can hear<br>
-with whispers of days gone by<br>
-of old friends far and near<br>
-the water's under the bridge, friend<br>
-the water rounds the bend<br>
-is the river of time the water<br>
-or is it the riverbed
-==== [[burn me down (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Just the Facts (poem)]] ====
-burn me down, right to the bones<br>
+I'm a walking, talking bundle of insecurities<br>
-the fire blossom in me grows<br>
+Didn't they warn you before you wandered into me?<br>
-I will wake with dawning light<br>
+Have you ever asked yourself what you'd do<br>
-as I consume the fading night
+When trapped by a person who doesn't shut up on cue?<br>
+I don't get cues, they should have warned you of that<br>
+And I don't recognize a rhetorical question<br>
+So prepare to get an answer back<br>
+I wish I knew more than the meaning of the word tact<br>
+I'd like to be acceptable, but I already know the facts<br>
+I'm a walking, talking bundle of insecurities<br>
+Didn't they warn you before you wandered into me?
-==== [[the fencepost (poem)]] ====
+==== [[the sands (poem)]] ====
-You. Me. And the fencepost.<br>
+I just get so tired sometimes<br>
-We know all the rules.<br>
+I lie down in the wilderness sands<br>
-So they placed us and the fencepost<br>
+They stretch to the far horizons<br>
-between all of them and the fools.<br>
+Forward and onward and back<br>
-Poor defenseless fencepost.<br>
+To familiar lands<br>
-At least you and me could move.
+I am quiet as I lie here<br>
+The stars are bright overhead<br>
+The air is too hot to breathe<br>
+But don't worry, I don't need much
-=== 11/3/17 ===
+==== [[(haiku for silence)]] ====
-==== [[every good (poem)]] ====
+silence breaks like<br>
+summer tides flee the ocean<br>
+only to return
-joy is my inheritance<br>
+==== [[look at me (poem)]] ====
-peace Your legacy<br>
-hope the greatest offering<br>
-You handed down to me<br>
-if every good and perfect thing<br>
-comes from You, my God<br>
-help me, Lord, stay close to You<br>
-and to reflect Your love
-==== [[(haiku for frost)]] ====
+people don't look at me<br>
+except when I am talking<br>
-morning quiet breaks<br>
+if they're smart, they look at me<br>
-under crackling white frost<br>
+and then they keep on walking<br>
-the silent echo
+I am brash and tactless but<br>
+I love most faithfully<br>
+that doesn't seem to change the fact<br>
+people don't look at me
-==== [[dramatic monologue (poem)]] ====
+==== [[modern fairytale (poem)]] ====
-people forget who I am<br>
+They tell you this fairytale<br>
-a mere shadow in history<br>
+about the shy girl<br>
-a footnote, a scam<br>
+she's bookish, unpretty<br>
-I've fooled the whole world<br>
+but beside her, she has this friend<br>
-into thinking me<br>
+who crushes on her anyway<br>
-far less important<br>
+I'm a bookish girl<br>
-than I really am
+shy and a bit unpretty<br>
+but there is no guy friend beside me<br>
+and he certainly has no crush
-=== 11/4/17 ===
+==== [[constellations (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Prayer 024 (poem)]] ====
+my constellations shine within your eyes<br>
+how could it be possible you don't realize<br>
+I guide my oceanic way against your north<br>
+true and bright, there is no back and forth
-all my worries, all my stress<br>
+=== 10/12/17 ===
-I throw upon Your lovingness<br>
-let it be swallowed up at last<br>
-in my trust, Your faithfulness
-=== 11/5/17 ===
+==== [[Green Pastures (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Daylight (poem)]] ====
+I will in green pastures lie<br>
+You have heard my every cry<br>
+And held me in Your arms of love<br>
+Comforting my heart so much
-Daylight glows upon your face<br>
+=== 10/14/17 ===
-It is no match to your embrace<br>
-Nor can it ever boast your grace<br>
-You are daylight on my face
-=== 11/6/17 ===
+==== [[Sonnet for a Lamb (poem)]] ====
-==== [[confession 001. (poem)]] ====
+Let me make some notes on grace<br>
+Freely offered to my race<br>
+Bought with sacrifice so dear<br>
+Poured out with love instead of fear<br>
+He who had the least to lose<br>
+Gave it all: we freely choose<br>
+Whether we accept this gift<br>
+His love, a suture, mends the rift<br>
+And His the power we may use<br>
+To walk the strait and narrow way<br>
+No sinner defiant would e'en choose<br>
+But foolish lambs, they need not stray<br>
+To them the way is clear, as God<br>
+Will guard with love and Shepherd's rod
-I'm a bit of a mess<br>
+==== [[Moments of Relapse (poem)]] ====
-is it all a test?<br>
-can I cling on?<br>
-I do confess<br>
-all I really want<br>
-is let it end
-=== 11/7/17 ===
+Moments when an overwhelming urge<br>
+Washes over like resurging tide<br>
+Relapse like familiar friends who were<br>
+Never friends though often in my mind<br>
+They are not mine, I turn them all away<br>
+And raise the light to start another day
-==== [[to know and be known (poem)]] ====
+=== 10/16/17 ===
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[The Dig (poem)]] ====
-to know and be known<br>
+find the pieces of my heart<br>
-the open mirror<br>
+scattered over foreign soil<br>
-is your soul<br>
+shattered in the sands of yours<br>
-so look at me<br>
+walk with me, friend, hand in hand<br>
-we are reflections<br>
+we will see the end of seas<br>
-of one another<br>
+swirl over gleaming edges<br>
-greater than you<br>
+there will lie the ruins of me<br>
-and I is we<br>
+underneath the burnt out bridges<br>
-if you are the sun<br>
+we will gently sweep the dirt off<br>
-I am the moon<br>
+with the brush of archaeologist<br>
-it matters not<br>
+every shard and every image<br>
-which body, see<br>
+reconstructed to perfection<br>
-for in our breasts<br>
+I will wear my history<br>
-one heart beats<br>
+in cracks that show the former glory<br>
-and only shine<br>
+cities built on ruined cities<br>
-with a single light
+towers fall but rise again
-==== [[I will survive (poem)]] ====
+=== 10/17/17 ===
-I will survive the end of the world<br>
+==== [[So Long (poem)]] ====
-The bone-crushing cosmos has bright wings unfurled<br>
-It opens its maw, gives birth to the night<br>
-I open my soul and swallow with light
-==== [[conscience (poem)]] ====
+Until the stars are ash<br>
+and the moons are dust,<br>
+until the air we breathe<br>
+has wholly turned to rust,<br>
+until the oceans rise<br>
+and wash all land from view,<br>
+so long will I love you<br>
+faithfully and true.
+==== [[the heavens (poem)]] ====
-I am the blood of centuries<br>
+burn down the heavens, the falling stars<br>
-been spilled upon your soul<br>
+will speak in the silence: their voices are ours<br>
-don't bother to look to apocalypse<br>
+we've lived up the night and woke up the dawn<br>
-it cannot make you whole<br>
+when will we miss it? right after it's gone<br>
-only if you remake the world<br>
+the world turns 'round and spins in the heaven<br>
-and purify in light<br>
+the end of all things is only a given<br>
-can you be clean of centuries<br>
+so I will choose to make in my mind<br>
-within all-knowing sight
+the place where the light of perfection could shine<br>
+open my hands and reach out to the light<br>
+swallow it down and ray out with my might<br>
+open my mouth and let loose all the sun<br>
+don't burn down the heavens until day is done
-=== 11/8/17 ===
+=== 10/18/17 ===
-==== [[charade (poem)]] ====
+==== [[name the light (poem)]] ====
-The grand charade!
+you forgot my name<br>
-:: we play our parts—
+I warned you not to<br>
-:: the wide-eyed child,
+the candles burst in flame<br>
-:: the know all lord,
+and light breaks through<br>
-:: the kindly soul,
+the darkness swarming 'round<br>
-:: the entitled jerk;
+that's why it came<br>
-:: forgive me if I overlook—
+but darkness cannot conquer<br>
-:: we speak our temporary names
+the brightness' name
-:: and look again!
-:: they're naught but games.
+=== 10/19/17 ===
-Wake up, sleeper!
-:: sleep no more;
-:: it is your hand
-:: upon the door.
-:: tread with caution,
-:: yet be bold.
-:: in wisdom choose:
-:: the worlds unfold.
-==== [[Prayer 025 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Contentment (poem)]] ====
-if not a sparrow should fall<br>
+I could get a spot of tea<br>
-nor a hair of my head be lost<br>
+Maybe yellow, green, or red<br>
-without You knowing it all<br>
+Maybe darker brown instead<br>
-then I can trust all things to You<br>
+It could taste so mellow, sweet<br>
-O Lord my God and King, renew<br>
+Or too fierce for spice to beat<br>
-my soul in love, in all I do!
+It could be the warmest roast<br>
+Though it surely wouldn't boast<br>
+I'd drink it all contentedly
-==== [[give all (poem)]] ====
+==== [[on joys of tea (poem)]] ====
-these are the things that I must do<br>
+the art of tea<br>
-I bound them on my soul<br>
+it is no art<br>
-this is the one I want to be<br>
+or not to me<br>
-let go and become whole<br>
+it is the heart<br>
-I give my all, I always give<br>
+of life and warmth,<br>
-it's who I want to be<br>
+replenished strength<br>
-and though the world won't understand<br>
+a calming draught<br>
-it is what makes me me
+brings stress to naught<br>
+it's more than art to me
-==== [[more than a promise (poem)]] ====
+=== 10/20/17 ===
-pour me out like a promise<br>
+==== [[aurora (poem)]] ====
-into the cup that pours<br>
-spilling over the edge, the world<br>
-heeds love and kindness more
-==== [[our games (poem)]] ====
+break me down in tiny pieces<br>
+watch me gather shattered light<br>
+spread across the stormy skies<br>
+aurora in the midst of night<br>
+I will take your dark and shadows<br>
+dispel them with the flames so bright<br>
+born within my heart's own embers<br>
+cast to heaven in your sight
-don't tell me you forgot<br>
+==== [[if I wait (poem)]] ====
-the way this story goes<br>
-but that's all right, remember<br>
-before the day will close<br>
-you and I were friends once<br>
-we played until the games<br>
-became a real life, you saved me<br>
-and now that's down in flames<br>
-I could not ever hate you<br>
-but I won't hesitate<br>
-to fight you just the way we<br>
-used to play our games
-==== [[(haiku for turning)]] ====
+I am quiet tonight<br>
+the endless ages have met<br>
+in the slopes of light in the moon<br>
+good things will come to me<br>
+if I wait, if I do good<br>
+and it doesn't have to be soon
-is this what you want?<br>
+==== [[the fragile words (poem)]] ====
-rain coats my cheek, slaps and stings<br>
-turn for love again
-==== [[friend (poem)]] ====
+don't break the silence around my heart<br>
+don't ask for answers, not now nor soon<br>
+I break the edges, the fragile words<br>
+that spoke my future into view<br>
+I'll hide my soul beneath my heart<br>
+and shutter the windows you look within<br>
+my eyes are silent, my whispers still<br>
+don't break the silence, not now nor soon
-''For G. and E.''
+=== 10/21/17 ===
-only one, bound soul to soul,<br>
+==== [[speak (poem)]] ====
-has ever knit with me<br>
-we clasped our hearts, like solemn hands<br>
-cavorted happily<br>
-we clashed our fists and bound our wrists<br>
-forever side by side<br>
-through joy and pain, our loss, our gain,<br>
-none else could I abide
-==== [[like tides (poem)]] ====
+speak<br>
+open your lips<br>
-I miss you like the night<br>
+and whisper<br>
-thinks longingly of dawn<br>
+the birds will quiet<br>
-I miss you like the wintry lands<br>
+their raucous chorus<br>
-miss their summer sun<br>
+the nighttime music<br>
-I miss you like the rivers miss<br>
+of crickets will cease<br>
-the cresting ocean tides<br>
+I will hold<br>
-I miss you like my lungs demand<br>
+my breath to listen<br>
-more oxygen inside
+so please<br>
+speak
+=== 10/26/17 ===
-==== [[(haiku for hope)]] ====
+==== [[autumn glow (poem)]] ====
-emptiness wraps hands<br>
+Sunlight glows on autumn trees<br>
-around my inner cup—my<br>
+Enlivens, brightens golden leaves<br>
-heart spills forth more hope
+Lights the red like living flame<br>
+O the glory branches frame!
-==== [[push (poem)]] ====
+==== [[golden hillsides (poem)]] ====
-you cannot take me<br>
+Sunrise makes the hillsides glow<br>
-:: cannot claim me<br>
+Golden grasses bend and blow<br>
-:: cannot make me<br>
+In the autumn winds—so bright<br>
-:: over again<br>
+They make the blue of sky delight
-you had your chance<br>
-:: and only one<br>
-:: you'll always be<br>
-:: my friend
-==== [[did the wind (poem)]] ====
+==== [[between the seasons (poem)]] ====
-where did the wind blow, that it could see<br>
+the morning air is chill from winter's fingers<br>
-the widening chasm 'twixt you and me?<br>
+and yet the summer sun still stops and lingers<br>
-we would have stood here eventually,<br>
+lighting up the fields with golden hue<br>
-but I'd hoped that somewhat more gradually.<br>
+'tis the autumn wind that wanders through<br>
-where did the sun shine that it could hear<br>
+I have always loved the crispness of the colors<br>
-me push away as you drew near,<br>
+loved the pathways carpeted in wonder<br>
-your words the knife to pick my lock,<br>
+a tapestry of leaves in flaming reds<br>
-not knowing that I know every block?<br>
+orange and yellow glowing on their beds<br>
-my heart, my treasure, is put away<br>
+I love the blowing grasses, the way they dance<br>
-upon a shelf too high to reach.<br>
+like waves upon the shores of happenstance<br>
-I feel your touch but cannot say<br>
+the hills are carpeted in waving gold<br>
-this is a lesson you cannot teach.<br>
+a tide of beauty more than heart can hold<br>
-where did the wind blow, where did the sun<br>
+evening rises with the golden hour<br>
-cast its brilliant rays of light,<br>
+the trees whisper goodnight, their heads aflower<br>
-that all my peaceful privacy<br>
+all the vibrant colors say goodnight<br>
-is swept away and brought to sight?
+winter frost will come with morning light
-==== [[Count on Me (poem)]] ====
+=== 10/27/17 ===
-Count on me the way you count your blessings<br>
+==== [[Night Owl (poem)]] ====
-A solemn reminder that you should not forget<br>
-What the world could be like in emptiness
-==== [[Even So (poem)]] ====
+Good morning to the morning<br>
+Before the morning light<br>
+I wake up bright-eyed, early<br>
+It feels like still the night<br>
+My night owl inner clock<br>
+May never know my plight<br>
+Until I learned of mornings<br>
+Before the morning light
-I hear the whispers of your tears<br>
+==== [[Is That What We're Calling It (poem)]] ====
-I never forgot the endless years<br>
-The nighttime shadows drew ever nearer<br>
-Let me offer to take your fears<br>
-The dawn will come again at last<br>
-Though you always feel the past<br>
-Heavy on your soul and fast<br>
-The light will come, the night will pass
-=== 11/9/17 ===
+You wonder when<br>
+I turned to you<br>
+And whispered, no,<br>
+the sky's not blue,<br>
+if any word I'd ever leave alone–<br>
+precision written to the bone
-==== [[Nagilit (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Q & A (poem)]] ====
-I always fall for the black ones—<br>
+Questions grow on trees
-their golden skins, their dangerous tongues,<br>
+:: if you ask me
-their hearts that beat with intent to wound—<br>
+:: (of course, you didn't)
-they love whom they love and that is all<br>
+:: there are many things
-I always fall for the sharp ones—<br>
+:: you never did
-their blades that pierce, their eyes that see,<br>
+Answers, luxuries
-their smiles beneath their scathing words—<br>
+:: if ever was one
-they love whom they love and that is all<br>
+:: I don't need to know
-I am one of the dark ones—<br>
+:: if ever was
-my vicious tongue, my cynical views,<br>
-my body a weapon intent to destroy—<br>
-I love whom I love and that is all
-==== [[like a broken clock (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for back to school)]] ====
-I've broken the ages<br>
+school buses clutter<br>
-like a broken clock<br>
+streets like leaves, yellow and bright<br>
-my heart goes beating<br>
+roll out red carpet
-can you hear the tock?<br>
-the world was young once<br>
+==== [[dreams in pictures (poem)]] ====
-the lands were bare<br>
-I stand in the silence<br>
-that's waiting there<br>
-mysteries rising<br>
-around like a light<br>
-beaming through morning<br>
-cloud cover bright<br>
-I broke my heart open<br>
-let the pieces fall down<br>
-through centuries pouring<br>
-let the hourglass frown<br>
-before the beginning<br>
-before the first breath<br>
-there was that still moment<br>
-before life or death<br>
-there you will find me<br>
-suspended on edge<br>
-the grain of bright sand<br>
-upon a glass ledge<br>
-forestalling the coming<br>
-hours of the end<br>
-the ages may break me<br>
-may heaven forefend
+dreams in pictures<br>
+music rolling over ocean depths<br>
+the tides of heart are washing<br>
+over memory's sand<br>
+hear my whispering hopes<br>
+become the land
-==== [[like the heavens forgot (poem)]] ====
+==== [[the river (poem)]] ====
-you talk to me like<br>
+where the waters run and play<br>
-the wind and sea don't know our names<br>
+dancing as they sing<br>
-like the heavens forgot the things we claimed<br>
+the rocks rise up and stand<br>
-upon each other's sigiled skin<br>
+the water's bounds they keep<br>
-we clasped our hands and clung like kin
+I sit upon the sentinels<br>
+throw pebbles in the stream<br>
+branches shelter overhead<br>
+and keep watch over me
-you talk to me like<br>
+==== [[like stones (poem)]] ====
-the legends of our youth are lost<br>
-like the bonds we forged and paid the cost<br>
-could ever fade away like paint<br>
-instead of in our blood a taint
-you talk to me like<br>
+some days I ache right down to my bones<br>
-eternity does not know we're one<br>
+my breath is a whisper too ragged and cold<br>
-like the skies and the earth and the passing sun<br>
+you whisper to me, too brightly and bold<br>
-never saw us walk away<br>
+it sinks in my gut like water and stones
-from life alone, we chose to stay
-you talk to me like<br>
+=== 10/30/17 ===
-the worlds are new<br>
-no, my friend<br>
-they only renew
-=== 11/10/17 ===
+==== [[the warmest words (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Sikunn (poem)]] ====
+I love you too—<br>
+the warmest words<br>
-''For M.''
+a girl like me<br>
+has ever heard.<br>
-he acknowledges neither gods nor kings<br>
+I strain and grasp<br>
-gives oaths to none for anything<br>
+to be the best:<br>
-he smites the world with golden spear<br>
+those words would put<br>
-the desert shakes, the end draws near<br>
+my heart to rest.<br>
-a thousand men can't stand before<br>
+I hear the love<br>
-his righteous rage and judgment now<br>
+you wrap them in.<br>
-can any seize his heart in love?<br>
+Won't you say them<br>
-his passions can't be swayed enough<br>
+over again?
-the golden spear, a powerful hand<br>
-before all Sikunn might you stand
-==== [[morning joy (poem)]] ====
+== November 2017 ==
-joy is peaceful solitude<br>
-of mornings and warm tea<br>
-the confidence of hea'enly love<br>
-my Father grants to me<br>
-the knowledge those I love are well<br>
-and safely He will keep<br>
-out of dreams into my day<br>
-may joy grow strong and deep
-==== [[to dust (poem)]] ====
+poems
-''For I.''
+=== 11/1/17 ===
-the deeds I've done are heavy<br>
+==== [[if the ages (poem)]] ====
-I loose them to the winds<br>
-to sand and dust and desert<br>
-the new day now begins
-==== [[treasure (poem)]] ====
+I'm behind on my time<br>
+If the ages were mine<br>
+I would bring them to pass<br>
+In a bright looking glass<br>
+And the mountains would quake<br>
+The bones of earth shake<br>
+I would pour out the worlds<br>
+In the universe furled<br>
+But I am a speck<br>
+In the endlessness, yet<br>
+My mind is as deep<br>
+As the oceans are steep<br>
+I will sink in the trench<br>
+While I sit on the bench<br>
+The century's tide<br>
+Will go on and I'll ride
-''For G. and E.''
+=== 11/2/17 ===
-though my treasury contained<br>
+==== [[Fix My Eyes (poem)]] ====
-every treasure known to man<br>
-every jewel and all fine gold<br>
-surely I may be so bold<br>
-to promise you that of all things<br>
-I treasure you above everything
-==== [[ode for lost things (poem)]] ====
+The morning blossoms 'round my soul<br>
+Dawn's fair light is come at last<br>
+The winter night is fading now<br>
+Leave all my shadows in the past<br>
+And fix my eyes upon the sun<br>
+That over all, its brightness cast
-an ode for lost things<br>
+==== [[the riverbed (poem)]] ====
-snuggled in dark places we like to forget<br>
-where we spin around in circles<br>
-tuck our memories into bed<br>
-who might we have been<br>
-had the fates rolled different die<br>
-we hold ourselves together<br>
-with love and blood to bind
-==== [[I have loved (poem)]] ====
+we talk about it don't we<br>
+the rushing in our ears<br>
-''For G. and E.''
+it drowns out all our history<br>
+and carries all our fears<br>
+we say it's way down there<br>
+under the bridge and flowing<br>
+we say it's run away<br>
+over the ground to the ocean<br>
+and yet I hear it rushing<br>
+covering what I can hear<br>
+with whispers of days gone by<br>
+of old friends far and near<br>
+the water's under the bridge, friend<br>
+the water rounds the bend<br>
+is the river of time the water<br>
+or is it the riverbed
-I have loved no one but you<br>
+==== [[burn me down (poem)]] ====
-and only found your love as true<br>
-No one else compares to you<br>
-Be with me 'til time is through
-==== [[let me hear (poem)]] ====
+burn me down, right to the bones<br>
+the fire blossom in me grows<br>
+I will wake with dawning light<br>
+as I consume the fading night
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[the fencepost (poem)]] ====
-Kiss me with your softest lips<br>
+You. Me. And the fencepost.<br>
-like a whisper on my ear<br>
+We know all the rules.<br>
-and let me hear your promises<br>
+So they placed us and the fencepost<br>
-to ever hold me dear<br>
+between all of them and the fools.<br>
-I will never leave you, friend<br>
+Poor defenseless fencepost.<br>
-but ever hold you near<br>
+At least you and me could move.
-Let all of time forever see<br>
-year after splendid year
-=== 11/11/17 ===
+=== 11/3/17 ===
-==== [[Prayer 026 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[every good (poem)]] ====
+joy is my inheritance<br>
+peace Your legacy<br>
+hope the greatest offering<br>
+You handed down to me<br>
+if every good and perfect thing<br>
+comes from You, my God<br>
+help me, Lord, stay close to You<br>
+and to reflect Your love
-Love is the road to heaven<br>
+==== [[(haiku for frost)]] ====
-the gift of heaven above<br>
-the face of heaven within<br>
-let the many faces of love<br>
-command my limbs and my conscience<br>
-behold through my eyes every man<br>
-consume to my marrow all darkness<br>
-replace every whisper of sin
-==== [[to be with you (poem)]] ====
+morning quiet breaks<br>
+under crackling white frost<br>
+the silent echo
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[dramatic monologue (poem)]] ====
-songs pierce the night<br>
+people forget who I am<br>
-with you, to even fight<br>
+a mere shadow in history<br>
-brings my heart contentment<br>
+a footnote, a scam<br>
-never sore resentment<br>
+I've fooled the whole world<br>
-that you are in my sight
+into thinking me<br>
+far less important<br>
+than I really am
-==== [[shield (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/4/17 ===
-''For M. and F.''
+==== [[Prayer 024 (poem)]] ====
-love between our heartbeats<br>
+all my worries, all my stress<br>
-needs no form in words<br>
+I throw upon Your lovingness<br>
-so long as you're beside me<br>
+let it be swallowed up at last<br>
-and each other guard<br>
+in my trust, Your faithfulness
-love is silent armor<br>
-against the darts of time<br>
-that you should stand beside me<br>
-forever you are mine
-==== [[of worth (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/5/17 ===
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[Daylight (poem)]] ====
-no one is more beautiful<br>
+Daylight glows upon your face<br>
-nor worthier to me<br>
+It is no match to your embrace<br>
-none has greater value<br>
+Nor can it ever boast your grace<br>
-for you are everything<br>
+You are daylight on my face
-my heart belongs to you<br>
-for I have you loved you in my strength<br>
-though all the world may smite<br>
-I will love you when I'm weak<br>
-not the sun or moon<br>
-nor powers of the earth<br>
-can ever separate us<br>
-or make our love decrease
-==== [[shining (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/6/17 ===
-''For S. and R.''
+==== [[confession 001. (poem)]] ====
-You are practically me:<br>
+I'm a bit of a mess<br>
-the confidence, the swagger,<br>
+is it all a test?<br>
-the utter loyalty;<br>
+can I cling on?<br>
-what you want, you take<br>
+I do confess<br>
-without regard of me.<br>
+all I really want<br>
-Yet my resignation<br>
+is let it end
-I do not find in you;<br>
-within your eyes, I see it:<br>
-could hope be shining through?
-=== 11/12/17 ===
+=== 11/7/17 ===
-==== [[I would give (poem)]] ====
+==== [[to know and be known (poem)]] ====
 ''For G. and E.''
-tell me if you missed me
+to know and be known<br>
-:: I missed you
+the open mirror<br>
-remember how you kissed me
+is your soul<br>
-:: I risked you
+so look at me<br>
-I would give you the moon and every star alive
+we are reflections<br>
-:: I cannot forgive
+of one another<br>
-:: to have you once again by my side
+greater than you<br>
-:: myself
+and I is we<br>
+if you are the sun<br>
+I am the moon<br>
+it matters not<br>
+which body, see<br>
+for in our breasts<br>
+one heart beats<br>
+and only shine<br>
+with a single light
-==== [[sympathy (poem)]] ====
+==== [[I will survive (poem)]] ====
-sometimes I feel a little blue<br>
+I will survive the end of the world<br>
-when I cannot be here with you<br>
+The bone-crushing cosmos has bright wings unfurled<br>
-you kiss my cheek and pat my head<br>
+It opens its maw, gives birth to the night<br>
-don't be like that, you thunderhead<br>
+I open my soul and swallow with light
-...<br>
-it's what you said
-==== [[is that (poem)]] ====
+==== [[conscience (poem)]] ====
-''For G. and E.''
+I am the blood of centuries<br>
+been spilled upon your soul<br>
+don't bother to look to apocalypse<br>
+it cannot make you whole<br>
+only if you remake the world<br>
+and purify in light<br>
+can you be clean of centuries<br>
+within all-knowing sight
-catch me where the wind blows<br>
+=== 11/8/17 ===
-I can feel your breath<br>
-riding on the currents<br>
-that easy summer scent<br>
-is that the faintest whisper<br>
-your voice carried to me<br>
-stay there while I travel<br>
-across the road between
-=== 11/13/17 ===
+==== [[charade (poem)]] ====
-==== [[moonlight on bright water (poem)]] ====
+The grand charade!
+:: we play our parts—
-you are moonlight on bright water<br>
+:: the wide-eyed child,
-bright and shining in the evening<br>
+:: the know all lord,
-hanging low over horizon<br>
+:: the kindly soul,
-I will lift my eyes and follow
+:: the entitled jerk;
+:: forgive me if I overlook—
-==== [[kiss me now (poem)]] ====
+:: we speak our temporary names
+:: and look again!
+:: they're naught but games.
+Wake up, sleeper!
+:: sleep no more;
+:: it is your hand
+:: upon the door.
+:: tread with caution,
+:: yet be bold.
+:: in wisdom choose:
+:: the worlds unfold.
+==== [[Prayer 025 (poem)]] ====
-''For M. and E.''
+if not a sparrow should fall<br>
+nor a hair of my head be lost<br>
+without You knowing it all<br>
+then I can trust all things to You<br>
+O Lord my God and King, renew<br>
+my soul in love, in all I do!
-kiss me now the way you do<br>
+==== [[give all (poem)]] ====
-with teeth and sharpness, warming through<br>
-a warning on your eager tongue<br>
-yes, hold me close, the night is young
-==== [[Who I Wanted (poem)]] ====
+these are the things that I must do<br>
+I bound them on my soul<br>
+this is the one I want to be<br>
+let go and become whole<br>
+I give my all, I always give<br>
+it's who I want to be<br>
+and though the world won't understand<br>
+it is what makes me me
-I'm not who I wanted to be<br>
+==== [[more than a promise (poem)]] ====
-I've been living it gradually<br>
-Hoping for someday, you see<br>
-To finally come home to me
-It's not what I wanted to do<br>
+pour me out like a promise<br>
-I wanted much more, it is true<br>
+into the cup that pours<br>
-I wanted to be just like you<br>
+spilling over the edge, the world<br>
-To always, forever push through
+heeds love and kindness more
+==== [[our games (poem)]] ====
-I want to be strong as the light<br>
+don't tell me you forgot<br>
-That banishes darkness of night<br>
+the way this story goes<br>
-By simply existing, my sight<br>
+but that's all right, remember<br>
-Can see it put shadow to flight
+before the day will close<br>
+you and I were friends once<br>
+we played until the games<br>
+became a real life, you saved me<br>
+and now that's down in flames<br>
+I could not ever hate you<br>
+but I won't hesitate<br>
+to fight you just the way we<br>
+used to play our games
-I want to be perfect and meek<br>
+==== [[(haiku for turning)]] ====
-Yet I feel always so weak<br>
-I know what I want and I seek<br>
-To climb until I reach the peak
-I'm not who I wanted to be<br>
+is this what you want?<br>
-But I still press on steadily<br>
+rain coats my cheek, slaps and stings<br>
-My hope lives in all that I see<br>
+turn for love again
-One day I will finally be me
+==== [[friend (poem)]] ====
-==== [[worthy (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
-worthy is the God of heaven<br>
+only one, bound soul to soul,<br>
-whose hand stretched out the stormy sea<br>
+has ever knit with me<br>
-and set the gates of earth and laid them<br>
+we clasped our hearts, like solemn hands<br>
-underneath eternity<br>
+cavorted happily<br>
-the skies are bright with radiant stars<br>
+we clashed our fists and bound our wrists<br>
-that worship Him with all they are<br>
+forever side by side<br>
-my heart will swell with worship too<br>
+through joy and pain, our loss, our gain,<br>
-and every day and night renew
+none else could I abide
+==== [[like tides (poem)]] ====
-==== [[in pieces (poem)]] ====
+I miss you like the night<br>
+thinks longingly of dawn<br>
+I miss you like the wintry lands<br>
+miss their summer sun<br>
+I miss you like the rivers miss<br>
+the cresting ocean tides<br>
+I miss you like my lungs demand<br>
+more oxygen inside
-tell me all in pieces<br>
+==== [[(haiku for hope)]] ====
-every single piece of you<br>
-I'll cradle them so gently<br>
-every night we will get through<br>
-the nightmares in your memory<br>
-I won't let them get to you<br>
-tell me all in pieces<br>
-so I'll hold all of you
-==== [[reach (poem)]] ====
+emptiness wraps hands<br>
+around my inner cup—my<br>
+heart spills forth more hope
-I couldn't bear<br>
+==== [[push (poem)]] ====
-you couldn't speak<br>
-the tension's thick<br>
-and I am weak<br>
-you reach to me<br>
-and I to you<br>
-our hands will touch<br>
-when words won't do
-==== [[chilly (poem)]] ====
+you cannot take me<br>
+:: cannot claim me<br>
+:: cannot make me<br>
+:: over again<br>
+you had your chance<br>
+:: and only one<br>
+:: you'll always be<br>
+:: my friend
-I am cold and you are warm<br>
+==== [[did the wind (poem)]] ====
-You can't escape me every morn<br>
-I burrow deep into your side<br>
-You can't escape, I know you tried
-==== [[Bone of My Bone (poem)]] ====
+where did the wind blow, that it could see<br>
+the widening chasm 'twixt you and me?<br>
+we would have stood here eventually,<br>
+but I'd hoped that somewhat more gradually.<br>
+where did the sun shine that it could hear<br>
+me push away as you drew near,<br>
+your words the knife to pick my lock,<br>
+not knowing that I know every block?<br>
+my heart, my treasure, is put away<br>
+upon a shelf too high to reach.<br>
+I feel your touch but cannot say<br>
+this is a lesson you cannot teach.<br>
+where did the wind blow, where did the sun<br>
+cast its brilliant rays of light,<br>
+that all my peaceful privacy<br>
+is swept away and brought to sight?
-''For M. and E.''
+==== [[Count on Me (poem)]] ====
-Bone of my bone<br>
+Count on me the way you count your blessings<br>
-and flesh of my flesh,<br>
+A solemn reminder that you should not forget<br>
-blood of my heart,<br>
+What the world could be like in emptiness
-to heaven the bridge:<br>
-I love you, my soul,<br>
-and I give you my all<br>
-with our hands twined together<br>
-that nothing can sever.
-=== 11/15/17 ===
+==== [[Even So (poem)]] ====
-==== [[again (poem)]] ====
+I hear the whispers of your tears<br>
+I never forgot the endless years<br>
+The nighttime shadows drew ever nearer<br>
+Let me offer to take your fears<br>
+The dawn will come again at last<br>
+Though you always feel the past<br>
+Heavy on your soul and fast<br>
+The light will come, the night will pass
-A hundred times I have loved you<br>
+=== 11/9/17 ===
-In a thousand lives, I remember<br>
-The night of a million stars<br>
-Gleaming as bright as our future<br>
-A hundred times you have saved me<br>
-A thousand times, I will find<br>
-At the edge of my hopes you will be<br>
-Together inevitably
-==== [[coming of age (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Nagilit (poem)]] ====
-''For M. and F.''
+I always fall for the black ones—<br>
+their golden skins, their dangerous tongues,<br>
+their hearts that beat with intent to wound—<br>
+they love whom they love and that is all<br>
+I always fall for the sharp ones—<br>
+their blades that pierce, their eyes that see,<br>
+their smiles beneath their scathing words—<br>
+they love whom they love and that is all<br>
+I am one of the dark ones—<br>
+my vicious tongue, my cynical views,<br>
+my body a weapon intent to destroy—<br>
+I love whom I love and that is all
-once upon a time, I was a child<br>
+==== [[like a broken clock (poem)]] ====
-when I was young, I grew up sweet and wild<br>
-then came days when I became a man<br>
+I've broken the ages<br>
-when life set match to everything I am<br>
+like a broken clock<br>
-I found you then and wound my arm through yours<br>
+my heart goes beating<br>
-back to back, we guarded each from harm<br>
+can you hear the tock?<br>
-side by side, we fought through every storm<br>
+the world was young once<br>
-never again will I stand up alone
+the lands were bare<br>
+I stand in the silence<br>
+that's waiting there<br>
+mysteries rising<br>
+around like a light<br>
+beaming through morning<br>
+cloud cover bright<br>
+I broke my heart open<br>
+let the pieces fall down<br>
+through centuries pouring<br>
+let the hourglass frown<br>
+before the beginning<br>
+before the first breath<br>
+there was that still moment<br>
+before life or death<br>
+there you will find me<br>
+suspended on edge<br>
+the grain of bright sand<br>
+upon a glass ledge<br>
+forestalling the coming<br>
+hours of the end<br>
+the ages may break me<br>
+may heaven forefend
-==== [[stand (poem)]] ====
-''For M. and F.''
+==== [[like the heavens forgot (poem)]] ====
-whisper to the ground, this is my stand<br>
+you talk to me like<br>
-stand beside me now and take my hand<br>
+the wind and sea don't know our names<br>
-we will not be moved though long the night<br>
+like the heavens forgot the things we claimed<br>
-we are not afraid to stand and fight
+upon each other's sigiled skin<br>
+we clasped our hands and clung like kin
-=== 11/16/17 ===
+you talk to me like<br>
+the legends of our youth are lost<br>
+like the bonds we forged and paid the cost<br>
+could ever fade away like paint<br>
+instead of in our blood a taint
-==== [[evening closes (poem)]] ====
+you talk to me like<br>
+eternity does not know we're one<br>
+like the skies and the earth and the passing sun<br>
+never saw us walk away<br>
+from life alone, we chose to stay
-evening closes in at night<br>
+you talk to me like<br>
-a peace upon my soul<br>
+the worlds are new<br>
-your nearness settles in and I<br>
+no, my friend<br>
-feel satisfied and whole<br>
+they only renew
-the cares of day shall fall away<br>
-and you shall make me known<br>
-from mind to heart and all between<br>
-a garden you have sown
-==== [[with contentment (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/10/17 ===
-you are the blood of my body<br>
+==== [[Sikunn (poem)]] ====
-you are the life of my soul<br>
-m heart swells with every heartbeat<br>
-full of the love we have found<br>
-mornings I wake with the promise<br>
-today I belong to my love<br>
-evenings I sleep with contentment<br>
-for you are my one and true love
-==== [[(haiku for bitterness)]] ====
+''For M.''
-sweetness is too sweet<br>
+he acknowledges neither gods nor kings<br>
-I drink the bitter dregs– hot<br>
+gives oaths to none for anything<br>
-into winter's cold
+he smites the world with golden spear<br>
+the desert shakes, the end draws near<br>
+a thousand men can't stand before<br>
+his righteous rage and judgment now<br>
+can any seize his heart in love?<br>
+his passions can't be swayed enough<br>
+the golden spear, a powerful hand<br>
+before all Sikunn might you stand
-==== [[finer wine (poem)]] ====
+==== [[morning joy (poem)]] ====
-''For G. and A.''
+joy is peaceful solitude<br>
+of mornings and warm tea<br>
+the confidence of hea'enly love<br>
+my Father grants to me<br>
+the knowledge those I love are well<br>
+and safely He will keep<br>
+out of dreams into my day<br>
+may joy grow strong and deep
-kiss me<br>
+==== [[to dust (poem)]] ====
-you taste like the sun<br>
-golden<br>
-glowing with heat<br>
-in my belly, my mind<br>
-you are mine<br>
-my love, finer wine<br>
-the centuries have failed<br>
-to produce<br>
-quite its like<br>
-alone<br>
-you may kiss me<br>
-you taste like the light<br>
-perfect, my love<br>
-and so bright
-==== [[nothing like (poem)]] ====
+''For I.''
+the deeds I've done are heavy<br>
+I loose them to the winds<br>
+to sand and dust and desert<br>
+the new day now begins
+==== [[treasure (poem)]] ====
 ''For G. and E.''
-There is nothing I love<br>
+though my treasury contained<br>
-like the sound of your voice<br>
+every treasure known to man<br>
-I hear like a conscience<br>
+every jewel and all fine gold<br>
-in every choice<br>
+surely I may be so bold<br>
-once in a long time<br>
+to promise you that of all things<br>
-a long time ago<br>
+I treasure you above everything
-your voice in my ear<br>
-that's the wisdom I know
-==== [[never forget (poem)]] ====
+==== [[ode for lost things (poem)]] ====
-I've forgotten many<br>
+an ode for lost things<br>
-hopes, dreams, pains, but– never, friend,<br>
+snuggled in dark places we like to forget<br>
-can I forget you
+where we spin around in circles<br>
+tuck our memories into bed<br>
+who might we have been<br>
+had the fates rolled different die<br>
+we hold ourselves together<br>
+with love and blood to bind
-==== [[salt (poem)]] ====
+==== [[I have loved (poem)]] ====
 ''For G. and E.''
-bring salt<br>
+I have loved no one but you<br>
-for my wounds<br>
+and only found your love as true<br>
-for my flesh<br>
+No one else compares to you<br>
-let the scent<br>
+Be with me 'til time is through
-sharpen<br>
-awaken<br>
+==== [[let me hear (poem)]] ====
-my eyes from their<br>
-slumbering dream<br>
-you were there<br>
-now I'm here<br>
-so it seems
-==== [[so I wait (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
-my heart<br>
+Kiss me with your softest lips<br>
-has not forgotten<br>
+like a whisper on my ear<br>
-my soul<br>
+and let me hear your promises<br>
-is never empty<br>
+to ever hold me dear<br>
-I wait<br>
+I will never leave you, friend<br>
-in painful silence<br>
+but ever hold you near<br>
-yet I<br>
+Let all of time forever see<br>
-will long endure
+year after splendid year
-==== [[who do I love? (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/11/17 ===
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[Prayer 026 (poem)]] ====
-who do I love? are the stars in the sky<br>
+Love is the road to heaven<br>
-bright enough that I'll forget how you sigh?<br>
+the gift of heaven above<br>
-your breath is the wind that's blowing for me<br>
+the face of heaven within<br>
-it ruffles my hair, you're the best company<br>
+let the many faces of love<br>
-who do I love? is the ocean so wide<br>
+command my limbs and my conscience<br>
-lovely enough to draw me from your side?<br>
+behold through my eyes every man<br>
-I'll only wade in when the waters are low<br>
+consume to my marrow all darkness<br>
-with your hand in mine so the both of us go<br>
+replace every whisper of sin
-who do I love more than anything else,<br>
-more than mother or father or nature's bright self?<br>
+==== [[to be with you (poem)]] ====
-more than battle or love, more than breath, more than life<br>
-I love you with everything I am inside
+''For G. and E.''
+songs pierce the night<br>
+with you, to even fight<br>
+brings my heart contentment<br>
+never sore resentment<br>
+that you are in my sight
-==== [[gentle (poem)]] ====
+==== [[shield (poem)]] ====
-''For M. and E.''
+''For M. and F.''
-you're never gentle<br>
+love between our heartbeats<br>
-your hands are rough<br>
+needs no form in words<br>
-your teeth are sharp<br>
+so long as you're beside me<br>
-the color of blood<br>
+and each other guard<br>
-makes a pretty mark<br>
+love is silent armor<br>
-your hands on me<br>
+against the darts of time<br>
-leave bruises dark<br>
+that you should stand beside me<br>
-on skin, I want them<br>
+forever you are mine
-where they are<br>
-you kiss me like<br>
-the kiss of war<br>
-I taste my blood<br>
-I beg for more<br>
-I want to feel<br>
-the aches and sore<br>
-you're never gentle<br>
-not with me<br>
-until you touch<br>
-so tenderly<br>
-you're making sure<br>
-that I take note<br>
-it's just like you<br>
-a master stroke<br>
-you whisper love<br>
-I can't escape<br>
-and more than that<br>
-it is my fate<br>
-because it's true<br>
-despite the pain<br>
-I love you more<br>
-than I could say
-==== [[past (poem)]] ====
+==== [[of worth (poem)]] ====
 ''For G. and E.''
-you've been inside my mind<br>
+no one is more beautiful<br>
-wandering through the past<br>
+nor worthier to me<br>
-how could this even last?<br>
+none has greater value<br>
-you find the things I hide<br>
+for you are everything<br>
-with bated breath I wait<br>
+my heart belongs to you<br>
-for you to look with hate<br>
+for I have you loved you in my strength<br>
-upon the dreams I cherished<br>
+though all the world may smite<br>
-before you went and perished<br>
+I will love you when I'm weak<br>
-but all I feel is love<br>
+not the sun or moon<br>
-your gentle, perfect touch
+nor powers of the earth<br>
+can ever separate us<br>
+or make our love decrease
-==== [[mercy (poem)]] ====
+==== [[shining (poem)]] ====
-the hand of God stretched out o'er me<br>
+''For S. and R.''
-seems often less than that of mercy<br>
-and more of holy purity<br>
-but I have need of eyes to see<br>
-for when the darkness closes in<br>
-my soul and tempts my heart to sin<br>
-even then I cry within<br>
-and strength of God will rise to win<br>
-my heart from mine and back to Him
-==== [[foundation (poem)]] ====
+You are practically me:<br>
+the confidence, the swagger,<br>
+the utter loyalty;<br>
+what you want, you take<br>
+without regard of me.<br>
+Yet my resignation<br>
+I do not find in you;<br>
+within your eyes, I see it:<br>
+could hope be shining through?
-my heart made the bones of the world<br>
+=== 11/12/17 ===
-from foundations have grown up the dreams<br>
-feathers take flight like blown wings<br>
-on the wind of my hopes and the seams<br>
-cracking the world in two<br>
-surely this world is not new<br>
-the roots burrow deep into me<br>
-I mirror out all faithfully
-=== 11/18/17 ===
+==== [[I would give (poem)]] ====
-==== [[through every dream (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
-warm and snuggly into sleep<br>
+tell me if you missed me
-I may fall so soft and deep<br>
+:: I missed you
-knowing love of God will keep<br>
+remember how you kissed me
-me through the night and every dream
+:: I risked you
+I would give you the moon and every star alive
+:: I cannot forgive
+:: to have you once again by my side
+:: myself
-==== [[Prayer 027 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[sympathy (poem)]] ====
-light the way before me, Lord<br>
+sometimes I feel a little blue<br>
-by Thy sure and trusty Word<br>
+when I cannot be here with you<br>
-keep my eyes upon Thy sight<br>
+you kiss my cheek and pat my head<br>
-'til I am become Thy perfect light
+don't be like that, you thunderhead<br>
+...<br>
+it's what you said
-==== [[unceasing (poem)]] ====
+==== [[is that (poem)]] ====
-though my anger may be fierce<br>
+''For G. and E.''
-though my flesh is torn and pierced<br>
-God of Heaven, I cry to You<br>
-with all my strength to bring me through<br>
-I will not cease until You do
-=== 11/20/17 ===
+catch me where the wind blows<br>
+I can feel your breath<br>
+riding on the currents<br>
+that easy summer scent<br>
+is that the faintest whisper<br>
+your voice carried to me<br>
+stay there while I travel<br>
+across the road between
-==== [[do not pass gently (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/13/17 ===
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[moonlight on bright water (poem)]] ====
-you are the wind<br>
+you are moonlight on bright water<br>
-the sound of your feet<br>
+bright and shining in the evening<br>
-fleeing my presence<br>
+hanging low over horizon<br>
-makes my heart beat<br>
+I will lift my eyes and follow
-with anger and pain<br>
-what harm did I do<br>
-that you would abandon<br>
-after all we've been through<br>
-my heart learns to weep<br>
-my face becomes stone<br>
-there is no comfort<br>
-in my empty throne<br>
-I dream of your touch<br>
-and it's always too much<br>
-until I can hold you<br>
-like I always did once
-==== [[the way you want (poem)]] ====
+==== [[kiss me now (poem)]] ====
-want me with the way you want<br>
+''For M. and E.''
-so fiercely I could never doubt<br>
-the way your eyes can drink me in<br>
-until I feel you see within<br>
-my heart and right into my mind<br>
-captivating me each time<br>
-I come to you, the day's been long<br>
-so I can rest within your love
-=== 11/21/17 ===
+kiss me now the way you do<br>
+with teeth and sharpness, warming through<br>
+a warning on your eager tongue<br>
+yes, hold me close, the night is young
-==== [[(haiku for fire)]] ====
+==== [[Who I Wanted (poem)]] ====
-wake, winter whiteness<br>
+I'm not who I wanted to be<br>
-my inner fires, like joy bright<br>
+I've been living it gradually<br>
-sharp within my chest
+Hoping for someday, you see<br>
+To finally come home to me
-==== [[(haiku for cats)]] ====
+It's not what I wanted to do<br>
+I wanted much more, it is true<br>
+I wanted to be just like you<br>
+To always, forever push through
-warm fur, rumbly purr<br>
+I want to be strong as the light<br>
-snug into my arms, alive<br>
+That banishes darkness of night<br>
-my winter blanket
+By simply existing, my sight<br>
+Can see it put shadow to flight
-=== 11/22/17 ===
+I want to be perfect and meek<br>
+Yet I feel always so weak<br>
+I know what I want and I seek<br>
+To climb until I reach the peak
-==== [[(haiku for breath)]] ====
+I'm not who I wanted to be<br>
+But I still press on steadily<br>
+My hope lives in all that I see<br>
+One day I will finally be me
-light passes strangely<br>
-in cold skies, my breath captures—<br>
-its shape caged like light
-==== [[(haiku for innocence)]] ====
+==== [[worthy (poem)]] ====
-innocent child once<br>
+worthy is the God of heaven<br>
-again so bright and smiling<br>
+whose hand stretched out the stormy sea<br>
-how short cut, this youth!
+and set the gates of earth and laid them<br>
+underneath eternity<br>
-=== 11/23/17 ===
+the skies are bright with radiant stars<br>
+that worship Him with all they are<br>
+my heart will swell with worship too<br>
+and every day and night renew
+==== [[in pieces (poem)]] ====
-==== [[everything I missed (poem)]] ====
+tell me all in pieces<br>
+every single piece of you<br>
+I'll cradle them so gently<br>
+every night we will get through<br>
+the nightmares in your memory<br>
+I won't let them get to you<br>
+tell me all in pieces<br>
+so I'll hold all of you
-somebody tell me everything I missed<br>
+==== [[reach (poem)]] ====
-the boat ran by, the water roared, we kissed<br>
-the sunset swallowed itself between my lips<br>
-the stars burst forth within me in my bliss
-=== 11/25/17 ===
+I couldn't bear<br>
+you couldn't speak<br>
+the tension's thick<br>
+and I am weak<br>
+you reach to me<br>
+and I to you<br>
+our hands will touch<br>
+when words won't do
-==== [[I Will Stand (poem)]] ====
+==== [[chilly (poem)]] ====
-''For S.''
+I am cold and you are warm<br>
+You can't escape me every morn<br>
+I burrow deep into your side<br>
+You can't escape, I know you tried
-No one else may understand<br>
+==== [[Bone of My Bone (poem)]] ====
-The fateful light that stays my hand<br>
-Nor fathom all the love I felt<br>
-When the warrior stopped and knelt<br>
-Behold! the winds of fury dance<br>
-Granting me another chance<br>
-Another life to spread before<br>
-The narrow road, the open door<br>
-Catch me in the fading light<br>
-And comprehend with perfect sight<br>
-Though you light the burning fire<br>
-I've been forged to never tire<br>
-Worse than death, I have endured<br>
-And from my nightmares never cured<br>
-Though the earth be ground to dust<br>
-I will stand: that you may trust
-==== [[(haiku for smiling)]] ====
+''For M. and E.''
-bright the sun, the song<br>
+Bone of my bone<br>
-my heart holds onto, smiling<br>
+and flesh of my flesh,<br>
-wind blows sweet, sighing
+blood of my heart,<br>
+to heaven the bridge:<br>
+I love you, my soul,<br>
+and I give you my all<br>
+with our hands twined together<br>
+that nothing can sever.
-==== [[unshaken (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/15/17 ===
-''For K.''
+==== [[again (poem)]] ====
-beauty is the way you<br>
+A hundred times I have loved you<br>
-conquer with one look<br>
+In a thousand lives, I remember<br>
-your eyes intent, weighing<br>
+The night of a million stars<br>
-the grace with which you move<br>
+Gleaming as bright as our future<br>
-your confidence unshaken<br>
+A hundred times you have saved me<br>
-no matter what it took
+A thousand times, I will find<br>
+At the edge of my hopes you will be<br>
+Together inevitably
-=== 11/26/17 ===
+==== [[coming of age (poem)]] ====
-==== [[nothing we desire (poem)]] ====
+''For M. and F.''
-''For R. and A.''
+once upon a time, I was a child<br>
+when I was young, I grew up sweet and wild<br>
+then came days when I became a man<br>
+when life set match to everything I am<br>
+I found you then and wound my arm through yours<br>
+back to back, we guarded each from harm<br>
+side by side, we fought through every storm<br>
+never again will I stand up alone
-beating in my chest<br>
+==== [[stand (poem)]] ====
-discongruous<br>
-the love I felt before<br>
-what I feel now<br>
-the trust within my arms<br>
-our sharpened edges<br>
-gently fade away<br>
-the matched set dreams<br>
-the wind beneath us bright<br>
-we have no future<br>
-nothing we desire<br>
-but to win<br>
-battles bloody<br>
-they could never stop us<br>
-wake me up beside<br>
-you once again
-==== [[(haiku for kisses)]] ====
+''For M. and F.''
-kiss you where your skin<br>
+whisper to the ground, this is my stand<br>
-is sun-kissed, dark and lovely<br>
+stand beside me now and take my hand<br>
-true, I knew you first
+we will not be moved though long the night<br>
+we are not afraid to stand and fight
-==== [[rattles (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/16/17 ===
-I am a quiet wind<br>
+==== [[evening closes (poem)]] ====
-The silence within me roars<br>
-The window glass rattles<br>
-In wooden cages<br>
-The hurricane rises<br>
-In gentle stages<br>
-I whisper, look out<br>
-And turn the pages
-==== [[soulmate (poem)]] ====
+evening closes in at night<br>
+a peace upon my soul<br>
+your nearness settles in and I<br>
+feel satisfied and whole<br>
+the cares of day shall fall away<br>
+and you shall make me known<br>
+from mind to heart and all between<br>
+a garden you have sown
-I miss you<br>
+==== [[with contentment (poem)]] ====
-I have not met you<br>
-An ache within my soul<br>
-Come quickly<br>
-That I might set you<br>
-At the very heart of all
-=== 11/27/17 ===
+you are the blood of my body<br>
+you are the life of my soul<br>
+m heart swells with every heartbeat<br>
+full of the love we have found<br>
+mornings I wake with the promise<br>
+today I belong to my love<br>
+evenings I sleep with contentment<br>
+for you are my one and true love
-==== [[(haiku for snows)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for bitterness)]] ====
-ah! the joy—waking<br>
+sweetness is too sweet<br>
-to bright days, sun on gleaming<br>
+I drink the bitter dregs– hot<br>
-snow! so pure, so light
+into winter's cold
-==== [[(haiku for cover)]] ====
+==== [[finer wine (poem)]] ====
-''For G.''
+''For G. and A.''
-bright as golden light<br>
+kiss me<br>
-yet full of arrogant pride:<br>
+you taste like the sun<br>
-you are dark inside
+golden<br>
+glowing with heat<br>
+in my belly, my mind<br>
+you are mine<br>
+my love, finer wine<br>
+the centuries have failed<br>
+to produce<br>
+quite its like<br>
+alone<br>
+you may kiss me<br>
+you taste like the light<br>
+perfect, my love<br>
+and so bright
-==== [[blow on it (poem)]] ====
+==== [[nothing like (poem)]] ====
-make a wish<br>
+''For G. and E.''
-blow on it<br>
-the winds may carry it high<br>
-hold a hope<br>
-make it grow<br>
-'til it fills you up inside<br>
-dawn will come<br>
-bright'ning sun<br>
-in you will light abide
-==== [[Plea (poem)]] ====
+There is nothing I love<br>
+like the sound of your voice<br>
+I hear like a conscience<br>
+in every choice<br>
+once in a long time<br>
+a long time ago<br>
+your voice in my ear<br>
+that's the wisdom I know
-please don't leave<br>
+==== [[never forget (poem)]] ====
-these threads of love<br>
-I faithful weave<br>
-into my every<br>
-hope and dream<br>
-into the deepest<br>
-rock of my soul<br>
-please don't leave<br>
-stay. don't go
-==== [[Render (poem)]] ====
+I've forgotten many<br>
+hopes, dreams, pains, but– never, friend,<br>
+can I forget you
-don't forget me in your heart<br>
+==== [[salt (poem)]] ====
-your mind may not remember<br>
-but you are written in every part<br>
-and burn there like an ember<br>
-the fire only takes a spark<br>
-to warmth of friendship render
-==== [[Prayer 028 (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
-Good morning, God<br>
+bring salt<br>
-You know it's me<br>
+for my wounds<br>
-There's nothing in eternity<br>
+for my flesh<br>
-I could ever hide from You<br>
+let the scent<br>
-And so I give it all to You<br>
+sharpen<br>
-My every pride, my every sin<br>
+awaken<br>
-Every praise my heart beats with<br>
+my eyes from their<br>
-My gratitude for all You've done<br>
+slumbering dream<br>
-Please cleanse me, Lord<br>
+you were there<br>
-By Christ Your Son
+now I'm here<br>
+so it seems
-==== [[catch and bone (poem)]] ====
+==== [[so I wait (poem)]] ====
-light and world, catch and bone<br>
+my heart<br>
-speak until the night is gone<br>
+has not forgotten<br>
-build with promise, blaze with hope<br>
+my soul<br>
-born from deep inside your soul
+is never empty<br>
+I wait<br>
+in painful silence<br>
+yet I<br>
+will long endure
-=== 11/28/17 ===
+==== [[who do I love? (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Prayer 029 (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
-Christ, I beg Your strength today<br>
+who do I love? are the stars in the sky<br>
-Keep me, Lord, within Your way<br>
+bright enough that I'll forget how you sigh?<br>
-Let the strait and narrow road<br>
+your breath is the wind that's blowing for me<br>
-Be my path and my abode
+it ruffles my hair, you're the best company<br>
+who do I love? is the ocean so wide<br>
+lovely enough to draw me from your side?<br>
+I'll only wade in when the waters are low<br>
+with your hand in mine so the both of us go<br>
+who do I love more than anything else,<br>
+more than mother or father or nature's bright self?<br>
+more than battle or love, more than breath, more than life<br>
+I love you with everything I am inside
-==== [[(haiku for forgiveness)]] ====
+==== [[gentle (poem)]] ====
-forgiveness cleanses<br>
+''For M. and E.''
-flushing anger, bitterness<br>
-like the fresh spring rain
-==== [[(haiku for thanksgiving)]] ====
+you're never gentle<br>
+your hands are rough<br>
+your teeth are sharp<br>
+the color of blood<br>
+makes a pretty mark<br>
+your hands on me<br>
+leave bruises dark<br>
+on skin, I want them<br>
+where they are<br>
+you kiss me like<br>
+the kiss of war<br>
+I taste my blood<br>
+I beg for more<br>
+I want to feel<br>
+the aches and sore<br>
+you're never gentle<br>
+not with me<br>
+until you touch<br>
+so tenderly<br>
+you're making sure<br>
+that I take note<br>
+it's just like you<br>
+a master stroke<br>
+you whisper love<br>
+I can't escape<br>
+and more than that<br>
+it is my fate<br>
+because it's true<br>
+despite the pain<br>
+I love you more<br>
+than I could say
-give thanks with joy, for<br>
+==== [[past (poem)]] ====
-blessings given and received:<br>
-the bountiful feast
-==== [[I will stay (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
-''For MH.''
+you've been inside my mind<br>
+wandering through the past<br>
-they'll come back, but I will stay<br>
+how could this even last?<br>
-and live to fight another day<br>
+you find the things I hide<br>
-duty calls, I don't resent<br>
+with bated breath I wait<br>
-this is right and what I meant
+for you to look with hate<br>
+upon the dreams I cherished<br>
+before you went and perished<br>
+but all I feel is love<br>
+your gentle, perfect touch
+==== [[mercy (poem)]] ====
-==== [[curtain call (poem)]] ====
+the hand of God stretched out o'er me<br>
+seems often less than that of mercy<br>
+and more of holy purity<br>
+but I have need of eyes to see<br>
+for when the darkness closes in<br>
+my soul and tempts my heart to sin<br>
+even then I cry within<br>
+and strength of God will rise to win<br>
+my heart from mine and back to Him
-''For G. and E.''
+==== [[foundation (poem)]] ====
-missing pieces of my heart<br>
+my heart made the bones of the world<br>
-never thought I'd play this part<br>
+from foundations have grown up the dreams<br>
-sword, my fate, has run me through<br>
+feathers take flight like blown wings<br>
-simply by removing you
+on the wind of my hopes and the seams<br>
+cracking the world in two<br>
+surely this world is not new<br>
+the roots burrow deep into me<br>
+I mirror out all faithfully
-==== [[Prayer 030 (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/18/17 ===
-God, my family, keep them safe<br>
+==== [[through every dream (poem)]] ====
-I ask of You in Jesus' name<br>
-Guard their health, their steps, their way<br>
+warm and snuggly into sleep<br>
-Let them feel Your love today<br>
+I may fall so soft and deep<br>
-Wrap them in Your perfect peace<br>
+knowing love of God will keep<br>
-Let their joy in You increase<br>
+me through the night and every dream
-You love them more than even I<br>
-So watch them with Your loving eye
-==== [[(haiku for tears)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 027 (poem)]] ====
-the quiet breaks white<br>
+light the way before me, Lord<br>
-gleaming on memory's shore—<br>
+by Thy sure and trusty Word<br>
-tears fall and shatter
+keep my eyes upon Thy sight<br>
+'til I am become Thy perfect light
-=== 11/29/17 ===
+==== [[unceasing (poem)]] ====
-==== [[Prayer 031 (poem)]] ====
+though my anger may be fierce<br>
+though my flesh is torn and pierced<br>
+God of Heaven, I cry to You<br>
+with all my strength to bring me through<br>
+I will not cease until You do
-Today, I may begin again<br>
+=== 11/20/17 ===
-But doomed until the very end<br>
-Unless I fall upon Your grace<br>
-God, I want to see Your face<br>
-Guard my soul, renew my mind<br>
-Fill me with Your endless Light<br>
-Love, I pray, to always find<br>
-Within my heart, put sin to flight
-==== [[I will love (poem)]] ====
+==== [[do not pass gently (poem)]] ====
-I will love whom I love<br>
+''For G. and E.''
-I will hate whom I hate<br>
-The world's not enough<br>
-To change my own fate<br>
-I care not for them<br>
-Nor for their opinions<br>
-What I will hold<br>
-I will hold in dominion<br>
-I will love you, my love<br>
-Disregard any else<br>
-Nothing can change<br>
-You are dearer than self
-==== [[like the lightning (poem)]] ====
+you are the wind<br>
+the sound of your feet<br>
+fleeing my presence<br>
+makes my heart beat<br>
+with anger and pain<br>
+what harm did I do<br>
+that you would abandon<br>
+after all we've been through<br>
+my heart learns to weep<br>
+my face becomes stone<br>
+there is no comfort<br>
+in my empty throne<br>
+I dream of your touch<br>
+and it's always too much<br>
+until I can hold you<br>
+like I always did once
-turn for a turn and<br>
+==== [[the way you want (poem)]] ====
-kiss for a kiss<br>
-hit for a hit and<br>
-miss for a miss<br>
-eyes may be dark<br>
-cheekbones are scraped<br>
-blood thin and bright<br>
-where fingernails raked<br>
-hope for a hope and<br>
-words like a lash<br>
-love on the pain<br>
-like lightning can flash
-==== [[catch brightness (poem)]] ====
+want me with the way you want<br>
+so fiercely I could never doubt<br>
+the way your eyes can drink me in<br>
+until I feel you see within<br>
+my heart and right into my mind<br>
+captivating me each time<br>
+I come to you, the day's been long<br>
+so I can rest within your love
-you're pretty in the way that all girls are<br>
+=== 11/21/17 ===
-catch brightness in your eyes like a wayward star<br>
-the brimming, gleaming fall of rainlike drops<br>
+==== [[(haiku for fire)]] ====
-the harvest of your agonizing crops<br>
-you're beautiful, most lovely when you catch<br>
+wake, winter whiteness<br>
-with empty fingers beyond where you can stretch<br>
+my inner fires, like joy bright<br>
-when your eyes are full of hopeless dreams<br>
+sharp within my chest
-brought down to earth and woven with new seams<br>
-reality is shaped within your touch<br>
-because the world is painful and too much<br>
-but you are beautiful when that aside<br>
-your desires swell like ocean tide<br>
-the barrier shall fall and be no more<br>
-the legend rises as in days of yore<br>
-you're pretty in the way that all girls are<br>
-when shines within their eyes that wayward star
-==== [[let iron (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for cats)]] ====
-I want a body<br>
+warm fur, rumbly purr<br>
-made of diamond<br>
+snug into my arms, alive<br>
-(that cannot crack or break<br>
+my winter blanket
-or shatter—<br>
-a million pieces<br>
+=== 11/22/17 ===
-catch the light;<br>
-they sparkle<br>
-like a scream,<br>
-so bright and perfect)<br>
-not soft like flesh<br>
-nor given to pain.<br>
-I want a body<br>
-like my heart:<br>
-let iron will<br>
-contain.
-==== [[Prayer 032 (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for breath)]] ====
-God, please grant my heart Your strength<br>
+light passes strangely<br>
-Help me go to every length<br>
+in cold skies, my breath captures—<br>
-Demanded by my life and duty<br>
+its shape caged like light
-I must bow before You truly<br>
-In my heart through every hour<br>
-Greatly do I need Your power<br>
-For to praise in everything<br>
-And give thanks enough to sing
-==== [[sing joy (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for innocence)]] ====
-sing joy<br>
+innocent child once<br>
-dance praise<br>
+again so bright and smiling<br>
-give thanks<br>
+how short cut, this youth!
-love raise<br>
-adore<br>
-our God<br>
-rejoice<br>
-in love
-=== 11/30/17 ===
+=== 11/23/17 ===
-==== [[you are the wind (poem)]] ====
+==== [[everything I missed (poem)]] ====
-move where the wind goes<br>
+somebody tell me everything I missed<br>
-like a mist, like a passing breeze<br>
+the boat ran by, the water roared, we kissed<br>
-I feel you against my skin<br>
+the sunset swallowed itself between my lips<br>
-then gone like a breath<br>
+the stars burst forth within me in my bliss
-I cannot catch<br>
-the mist is rising in me<br>
-the dampness on my skin<br>
-and within my eyes<br>
-wind, come back to me
-== December 2017 ==
+=== 11/25/17 ===
-=== 12/1/17 ===
+==== [[I Will Stand (poem)]] ====
-==== [[brighter still (poem)]] ====
+''For S.''
-joy comes on winter mornings<br>
+No one else may understand<br>
-light comes down, shining sun<br>
+The fateful light that stays my hand<br>
-the purest snow is brighter still<br>
+Nor fathom all the love I felt<br>
-than, of days, the warmest one
+When the warrior stopped and knelt<br>
+Behold! the winds of fury dance<br>
+Granting me another chance<br>
+Another life to spread before<br>
+The narrow road, the open door<br>
+Catch me in the fading light<br>
+And comprehend with perfect sight<br>
+Though you light the burning fire<br>
+I've been forged to never tire<br>
+Worse than death, I have endured<br>
+And from my nightmares never cured<br>
+Though the earth be ground to dust<br>
+I will stand: that you may trust
-=== 12/2/17 ===
+==== [[(haiku for smiling)]] ====
-==== [[Prayer 033 (poem)]] ====
+bright the sun, the song<br>
+my heart holds onto, smiling<br>
+wind blows sweet, sighing
-my dusty soul a wilderness<br>
+==== [[unshaken (poem)]] ====
-I cannot feel; the emptiness<br>
-has swallowed even thirstiness<br>
-I pray for heavenly kindness<br>
-the road is long, I've always traveled<br>
-the path before has come unraveled<br>
-I cut my feet on rocks and gravel<br>
-I cut my teeth beneath the gavel<br>
-maybe all I feel is pain<br>
-grant me the forgiving rain<br>
-soak my heart with love to gain<br>
-that I might walk with You again
-==== [[the truth (poem)]] ====
+''For K.''
-the truth is not so beautiful as it ought to be<br>
+beauty is the way you<br>
-I only feel the lightning when it's striking down on me<br>
+conquer with one look<br>
-I only feel the flood when I have fully ceased to breathe<br>
+your eyes intent, weighing<br>
-the truth is not so beautiful as it ought to be
+the grace with which you move<br>
+your confidence unshaken<br>
+no matter what it took
-==== [[Firebird, Wake (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/26/17 ===
-The pain of decades is aching
+==== [[nothing we desire (poem)]] ====
-:: Don't tell me I am too young
-The pain inside me is breaking
-:: Like heated waves of the sun
-Electric fires are melting
-:: My modern strength fallen and torn
-An egg on the altar is quaking
-:: Look, I will be reborn
-==== [[Prayer 034 (poem)]] ====
+''For R. and A.''
-my heart is not a pretty place<br>
+beating in my chest<br>
-but what man's is, except for grace?<br>
+discongruous<br>
-yet I have longed to mend my ways<br>
+the love I felt before<br>
-so mend my heart, O God, I pray<br>
+what I feel now<br>
-help me to desire You<br>
+the trust within my arms<br>
-with pure desire and always true
+our sharpened edges<br>
+gently fade away<br>
+the matched set dreams<br>
+the wind beneath us bright<br>
+we have no future<br>
+nothing we desire<br>
+but to win<br>
+battles bloody<br>
+they could never stop us<br>
+wake me up beside<br>
+you once again
+==== [[(haiku for kisses)]] ====
+kiss you where your skin<br>
+is sun-kissed, dark and lovely<br>
+true, I knew you first
-==== [[book of lost things (poem)]] ====
+==== [[rattles (poem)]] ====
-there's a book of lost things<br>
+I am a quiet wind<br>
-my God treasures every one<br>
+The silence within me roars<br>
-every tear that's fallen<br>
+The window glass rattles<br>
-from every beloved son<br>
+In wooden cages<br>
-every laugh that's issued<br>
+The hurricane rises<br>
-from His every precious girl<br>
+In gentle stages<br>
-every lost but sacred hope<br>
+I whisper, look out<br>
-from any in the world<br>
+And turn the pages
-my God holds all my sorrows<br>
-and my God knows all my prayers<br>
-I must cast all cares on Him<br>
-or fall into despair<br>
-cast my heart and anchor, God<br>
-and keep my soul from death<br>
-let You feel the ache in me<br>
-with every single breath<br>
-Christ, I need the hope of Your power<br>
-to break beyond my sin<br>
-to shatter all that locks upon<br>
-this pretty cage I'm in<br>
-there's a book of all lost things<br>
-my name has been there once<br>
-without the perfect love of Christ<br>
-I never had a chance<br>
-rescue me as You declared<br>
-and capture me in Your love
-==== [[let the bones (poem)]] ====
+==== [[soulmate (poem)]] ====
-let the bones cry out<br>
+I miss you<br>
-let the soul make noise<br>
+I have not met you<br>
-let it utter prayers<br>
+An ache within my soul<br>
-give the heart its voice<br>
+Come quickly<br>
-let the vessels sing<br>
+That I might set you<br>
-let the pulse resound<br>
+At the very heart of all
-with the prayer in me<br>
-o mind, let it out!<br>
-let the breath not break<br>
-let the eye not dim<br>
-'til we have our desire<br>
-and we are like Him
-==== [[altar (poem)]] ====
+=== 11/27/17 ===
-keep me warm<br>
+==== [[(haiku for snows)]] ====
-when the night is cold<br>
-when the hope is old<br>
-let it burn so bright<br>
-like the endless light<br>
-an eternal flame
-==== [[From Endless Time (poem)]] ====
+ah! the joy—waking<br>
+to bright days, sun on gleaming<br>
+snow! so pure, so light
-from endless time I reach<br>
+==== [[(haiku for cover)]] ====
-through the shattered night<br>
-heed the power of my speech<br>
-and bring the truth to light<br>
-from the root of everything<br>
-and to the uttermost leaves<br>
-let the world be born anew<br>
-within the song it weaves
-==== [[exhale (poem)]] ====
+''For G.''
-exhale<br>
+bright as golden light<br>
-it will be my breath<br>
+yet full of arrogant pride:<br>
-inhale<br>
+you are dark inside
-it will be the breadth<br>
-of all the love I feel for you<br>
-so breathe, my friend<br>
-and make it through
-==== [[been here before (poem)]] ====
+==== [[blow on it (poem)]] ====
-we've been here before
+make a wish<br>
+blow on it<br>
-just one revolving door
+the winds may carry it high<br>
-:: that spins and spins
+hold a hope<br>
-our children walk on stones
+make it grow<br>
+'til it fills you up inside<br>
+dawn will come<br>
+bright'ning sun<br>
+in you will light abide
-we paved over our bones
+==== [[Plea (poem)]] ====
-:: then start again
-==== [[Prayer 035 (poem)]] ====
+please don't leave<br>
+these threads of love<br>
+I faithful weave<br>
+into my every<br>
+hope and dream<br>
+into the deepest<br>
+rock of my soul<br>
+please don't leave<br>
+stay. don't go
-Bend the heavens that they give ear<br>
+==== [[Render (poem)]] ====
-And listen to my fervent prayer<br>
-Empty me out of every fear<br>
-Make me a vessel of holy love<br>
-Purify my strong desires<br>
-Cleanse me of relentless need<br>
-Hold me in that heavenly fire<br>
-Until I am tried gold indeed
-=== 12/3/17 ===
+don't forget me in your heart<br>
+your mind may not remember<br>
+but you are written in every part<br>
+and burn there like an ember<br>
+the fire only takes a spark<br>
+to warmth of friendship render
-==== [[light moves (poem)]] ====
+==== [[Prayer 028 (poem)]] ====
-the light moves<br>
+Good morning, God<br>
-I catch the sparks<br>
+You know it's me<br>
-to glow in heart<br>
+There's nothing in eternity<br>
-they fly again
+I could ever hide from You<br>
+And so I give it all to You<br>
+My every pride, my every sin<br>
+Every praise my heart beats with<br>
+My gratitude for all You've done<br>
+Please cleanse me, Lord<br>
+By Christ Your Son
+==== [[catch and bone (poem)]] ====
+light and world, catch and bone<br>
+speak until the night is gone<br>
+build with promise, blaze with hope<br>
+born from deep inside your soul
+=== 11/28/17 ===
+==== [[Prayer 029 (poem)]] ====
-==== [[the urge (poem)]] ====
+Christ, I beg Your strength today<br>
+Keep me, Lord, within Your way<br>
+Let the strait and narrow road<br>
+Be my path and my abode
-catch me where it counts<br>
+==== [[(haiku for forgiveness)]] ====
-where the dust settles<br>
-where the song nettles<br>
-at my heart, o how it itches!<br>
-the urge to fly comes out
-=== 12/4/17 ===
+forgiveness cleanses<br>
+flushing anger, bitterness<br>
+like the fresh spring rain
-==== [[o'er the earth (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for thanksgiving)]] ====
-golden hills<br>
+give thanks with joy, for<br>
-my windy home<br>
+blessings given and received:<br>
-the cloudy skies<br>
+the bountiful feast
-the sunlight roams<br>
-o'er the earth<br>
+==== [[I will stay (poem)]] ====
-so rich a red<br>
-o'er the river<br>
+''For MH.''
+they'll come back, but I will stay<br>
+and live to fight another day<br>
+duty calls, I don't resent<br>
+this is right and what I meant
+==== [[curtain call (poem)]] ====
+''For G. and E.''
+missing pieces of my heart<br>
+never thought I'd play this part<br>
+sword, my fate, has run me through<br>
+simply by removing you
+==== [[Prayer 030 (poem)]] ====
+God, my family, keep them safe<br>
+I ask of You in Jesus' name<br>
+Guard their health, their steps, their way<br>
+Let them feel Your love today<br>
+Wrap them in Your perfect peace<br>
+Let their joy in You increase<br>
+You love them more than even I<br>
+So watch them with Your loving eye
+==== [[(haiku for tears)]] ====
+the quiet breaks white<br>
+gleaming on memory's shore—<br>
+tears fall and shatter
+=== 11/29/17 ===
+==== [[Prayer 031 (poem)]] ====
+Today, I may begin again<br>
+But doomed until the very end<br>
+Unless I fall upon Your grace<br>
+God, I want to see Your face<br>
+Guard my soul, renew my mind<br>
+Fill me with Your endless Light<br>
+Love, I pray, to always find<br>
+Within my heart, put sin to flight
+==== [[I will love (poem)]] ====
+I will love whom I love<br>
+I will hate whom I hate<br>
+The world's not enough<br>
+To change my own fate<br>
+I care not for them<br>
+Nor for their opinions<br>
+What I will hold<br>
+I will hold in dominion<br>
+I will love you, my love<br>
+Disregard any else<br>
+Nothing can change<br>
+You are dearer than self
+==== [[like the lightning (poem)]] ====
+turn for a turn and<br>
+kiss for a kiss<br>
+hit for a hit and<br>
+miss for a miss<br>
+eyes may be dark<br>
+cheekbones are scraped<br>
+blood thin and bright<br>
+where fingernails raked<br>
+hope for a hope and<br>
+words like a lash<br>
+love on the pain<br>
+like lightning can flash
+==== [[catch brightness (poem)]] ====
+you're pretty in the way that all girls are<br>
+catch brightness in your eyes like a wayward star<br>
+the brimming, gleaming fall of rainlike drops<br>
+the harvest of your agonizing crops<br>
+you're beautiful, most lovely when you catch<br>
+with empty fingers beyond where you can stretch<br>
+when your eyes are full of hopeless dreams<br>
+brought down to earth and woven with new seams<br>
+reality is shaped within your touch<br>
+because the world is painful and too much<br>
+but you are beautiful when that aside<br>
+your desires swell like ocean tide<br>
+the barrier shall fall and be no more<br>
+the legend rises as in days of yore<br>
+you're pretty in the way that all girls are<br>
+when shines within their eyes that wayward star
+==== [[let iron (poem)]] ====
+I want a body<br>
+made of diamond<br>
+(that cannot crack or break<br>
+or shatter—<br>
+a million pieces<br>
+catch the light;<br>
+they sparkle<br>
+like a scream,<br>
+so bright and perfect)<br>
+not soft like flesh<br>
+nor given to pain.<br>
+I want a body<br>
+like my heart:<br>
+let iron will<br>
+contain.
+==== [[Prayer 032 (poem)]] ====
+God, please grant my heart Your strength<br>
+Help me go to every length<br>
+Demanded by my life and duty<br>
+I must bow before You truly<br>
+In my heart through every hour<br>
+Greatly do I need Your power<br>
+For to praise in everything<br>
+And give thanks enough to sing
+==== [[sing joy (poem)]] ====
+sing joy<br>
+dance praise<br>
+give thanks<br>
+love raise<br>
+adore<br>
+our God<br>
+rejoice<br>
+in love
+=== 11/30/17 ===
+==== [[you are the wind (poem)]] ====
+move where the wind goes<br>
+like a mist, like a passing breeze<br>
+I feel you against my skin<br>
+then gone like a breath<br>
+I cannot catch<br>
+the mist is rising in me<br>
+the dampness on my skin<br>
+and within my eyes<br>
+wind, come back to me
+== December 2017 ==
+=== 12/1/17 ===
+==== [[brighter still (poem)]] ====
+joy comes on winter mornings<br>
+light comes down, shining sun<br>
+the purest snow is brighter still<br>
+than, of days, the warmest one
+=== 12/2/17 ===
+==== [[Prayer 033 (poem)]] ====
+my dusty soul a wilderness<br>
+I cannot feel; the emptiness<br>
+has swallowed even thirstiness<br>
+I pray for heavenly kindness<br>
+the road is long, I've always traveled<br>
+the path before has come unraveled<br>
+I cut my feet on rocks and gravel<br>
+I cut my teeth beneath the gavel<br>
+maybe all I feel is pain<br>
+grant me the forgiving rain<br>
+soak my heart with love to gain<br>
+that I might walk with You again
+==== [[the truth (poem)]] ====
+the truth is not so beautiful as it ought to be<br>
+I only feel the lightning when it's striking down on me<br>
+I only feel the flood when I have fully ceased to breathe<br>
+the truth is not so beautiful as it ought to be
+==== [[Firebird, Wake (poem)]] ====
+The pain of decades is aching
+:: Don't tell me I am too young
+The pain inside me is breaking
+:: Like heated waves of the sun
+Electric fires are melting
+:: My modern strength fallen and torn
+An egg on the altar is quaking
+:: Look, I will be reborn
+==== [[Prayer 034 (poem)]] ====
+my heart is not a pretty place<br>
+but what man's is, except for grace?<br>
+yet I have longed to mend my ways<br>
+so mend my heart, O God, I pray<br>
+help me to desire You<br>
+with pure desire and always true
+==== [[book of lost things (poem)]] ====
+there's a book of lost things<br>
+my God treasures every one<br>
+every tear that's fallen<br>
+from every beloved son<br>
+every laugh that's issued<br>
+from His every precious girl<br>
+every lost but sacred hope<br>
+from any in the world<br>
+my God holds all my sorrows<br>
+and my God knows all my prayers<br>
+I must cast all cares on Him<br>
+or fall into despair<br>
+cast my heart and anchor, God<br>
+and keep my soul from death<br>
+let You feel the ache in me<br>
+with every single breath<br>
+Christ, I need the hope of Your power<br>
+to break beyond my sin<br>
+to shatter all that locks upon<br>
+this pretty cage I'm in<br>
+there's a book of all lost things<br>
+my name has been there once<br>
+without the perfect love of Christ<br>
+I never had a chance<br>
+rescue me as You declared<br>
+and capture me in Your love
+==== [[let the bones (poem)]] ====
+let the bones cry out<br>
+let the soul make noise<br>
+let it utter prayers<br>
+give the heart its voice<br>
+let the vessels sing<br>
+let the pulse resound<br>
+with the prayer in me<br>
+o mind, let it out!<br>
+let the breath not break<br>
+let the eye not dim<br>
+'til we have our desire<br>
+and we are like Him
+==== [[altar (poem)]] ====
+keep me warm<br>
+when the night is cold<br>
+when the hope is old<br>
+let it burn so bright<br>
+like the endless light<br>
+an eternal flame
+==== [[From Endless Time (poem)]] ====
+from endless time I reach<br>
+through the shattered night<br>
+heed the power of my speech<br>
+and bring the truth to light<br>
+from the root of everything<br>
+and to the uttermost leaves<br>
+let the world be born anew<br>
+within the song it weaves
+==== [[exhale (poem)]] ====
+exhale<br>
+it will be my breath<br>
+inhale<br>
+it will be the breadth<br>
+of all the love I feel for you<br>
+so breathe, my friend<br>
+and make it through
+==== [[been here before (poem)]] ====
+we've been here before
+just one revolving door
+:: that spins and spins
+our children walk on stones
+we paved over our bones
+:: then start again
+==== [[Prayer 035 (poem)]] ====
+Bend the heavens that they give ear<br>
+And listen to my fervent prayer<br>
+Empty me out of every fear<br>
+Make me a vessel of holy love<br>
+Purify my strong desires<br>
+Cleanse me of relentless need<br>
+Hold me in that heavenly fire<br>
+Until I am tried gold indeed
+=== 12/3/17 ===
+==== [[light moves (poem)]] ====
+the light moves<br>
+I catch the sparks<br>
+to glow in heart<br>
+they fly again
+==== [[the urge (poem)]] ====
+catch me where it counts<br>
+where the dust settles<br>
+where the song nettles<br>
+at my heart, o how it itches!<br>
+the urge to fly comes out
+=== 12/4/17 ===
+==== [[o'er the earth (poem)]] ====
+golden hills<br>
+my windy home<br>
+the cloudy skies<br>
+the sunlight roams<br>
+o'er the earth<br>
+so rich a red<br>
+o'er the river<br>
 so deep a bed
 ==== [[catch me (poem)]] ====
+catch me in the heart<br>
+like a punch to the gut<br>
+like blood on my tongue<br>
+like salt in my eyes<br>
+like bruises you made<br>
+catch me right there<br>
+so long as you stay
+==== [[pass (poem)]] ====
+moonlit roads<br>
+with you, I'd travel<br>
+a thousand miles<br>
+they cannot pass<br>
+the iron and steel<br>
+that binds our hearts<br>
+that guards our hopes<br>
+that holds our love
+==== [[content to (poem)]] ====
+waiting in silence<br>
+in the space before a promised dawn<br>
+breathe in and out as easily<br>
+as the morning quiet and in peace<br>
+evening stretches, silent<br>
+but I have always been<br>
+content to wait
+=== 12/5/17 ===
+==== [[the mercies (poem)]] ====
+I am a moon and my borrowed light<br>
+needs to reflect my God in His might<br>
+that others may look and my works in their sight<br>
+show off the mercies of Christ
+==== [[cup poured out (poem)]] ====
+knock me over<br>
+spill my heart<br>
+cup poured out<br>
+not emptiness<br>
+but want
+==== [[like fire (poem)]] ====
+breath like fire in my lungs<br>
+the night is cold<br>
+the day is young<br>
+wind that howls through every crack<br>
+the mountain seams<br>
+the canyon's path<br>
+knife of chill within my chest<br>
+hold the hope<br>
+against my breast<br>
+open up the skies above<br>
+peel them back<br>
+and even shove<br>
+let the prophecies rain down<br>
+that is where<br>
+my hope has flown
+==== [[dance in light (poem)]] ====
+I am brightness come to light<br>
+I came here but not to fight<br>
+Dance away and I'll believe<br>
+Wander with you, worlds weave<br>
+Painted with our hopes and dreams<br>
+Threading joy within the seams<br>
+We will dance in golden streams<br>
+The radiance of hea'enly beams
+=== 12/6/17 ===
+==== [[Bright Morning, Bright Evening (poem)]] ====
+Bright morning, bright evening<br>
+It shines in the light<br>
+Of your consciousness, brilliance<br>
+Attuned to your eyes<br>
+The sun's not awake yet<br>
+The sun's gone to sleep<br>
+But my light is still beaming<br>
+In wisdom, I seek
+==== [[the taste of you (poem)]] ====
+''For B. and M.''
+I wonder at the taste of you<br>
+I've never felt it, skies are blue<br>
+You have given all I have<br>
+And you're the one I cannot have<br>
+The winds that blow, I need a guard<br>
+You'd provide if e'er you could<br>
+I reach to touch, my hand arrests<br>
+Knowing what I shouldn't do<br>
+I've never felt, it's surely true<br>
+But I wonder at the taste of you
+=== 12/7/17 ===
+==== [[something sings (poem)]] ====
+thick taste under my tongue<br>
+the water does not cleanse<br>
+it bursts with ancient scents<br>
+I feel it hit me, a lingering tide<br>
+remember where these feelings hide<br>
+the pulse of dances long ago<br>
+the rhythm of our stop and go<br>
+the prayers that never left my flesh<br>
+the wrenching cries and me bereft<br>
+the sweetness of another sun<br>
+the light that shatters now begun<br>
+its weight, its heft, the warmth it brings<br>
+in my vessels, something sings<br>
+through my blood and to my brain<br>
+this living won't have been in vain<br>
+I open hands to perfect light<br>
+and send my dreams to soaring flight
+==== [[once the wind (poem)]] ====
+empty spaces<br>
+once the wind to me<br>
+the kind that aches and breathes<br>
+today the solitude<br>
+the quietness that feeds<br>
+a soul that aches and needs<br>
+I breathe
+==== [[heart will rise (poem)]] ====
+did I grow when I wasn't looking?<br>
+did something change within me?<br>
+stretch its wings, unfurled and bright<br>
+did something in my heart take flight?<br>
+tell me this is not a phase<br>
+a dream, a wish I cannot keep<br>
+I need to know I'm not asleep<br>
+the heart will rise from oceans deep<br>
+and I will feel the light again<br>
+healing worked beneath my skin<br>
+my eyes find brightness and not flinch<br>
+tell me as my fingers clench<br>
+learning how to open them<br>
+to let go of the wounds and shame<br>
+was worth the too abundant pain<br>
+lift me up and take my hand<br>
+rising from the earth, I'll stand
+==== [[(haiku for beauty)]] ====
+moonlit beauty's sum<br>
+reflected in your face–so pale<br>
+and framed by night–grace
+=== 12/8/17 ===
+==== [[Prayer 036 (poem)]] ====
+thank You for the healing<br>
+the scars that wound are there<br>
+they are also scars that heal<br>
+over my heart they seal<br>
+and You break in<br>
+the night is washed away now<br>
+You claim me with Your light<br>
+Your love has chained my sight<br>
+willingly to Your power<br>
+in this hour
+==== [[(haiku for frosted glass)]] ====
+time slows down, I breathe<br>
+cold air, warm voices, and peace<br>
+behind frosted panes
+==== [[wishes (poem)]] ====
+give me a wish<br>
+the silence is strong<br>
+too strong<br>
+stars race in courses<br>
+the light of the sun<br>
+is strong<br>
+on the plate of the moon
+==== [[conqueror (poem)]] ====
+''For G.''
+love shatters the locks<br>
+upon the doors where I have placed them<br>
+enter into the citadel as I have built it<br>
+this, my mind, my heart, imagination<br>
+foundation of the life that I have lived<br>
+enter, take possession, you who conquered<br>
+so gently with your hands to treasure me
+==== [[daughter of legends (poem)]] ====
+''For E.''
+you try being the daughter of a legend<br>
+you try reaching beyond yourself<br>
+fighting long after you're already down<br>
+to do any less is to lose all hope<br>
+my father the strength of a revolution<br>
+my mother most dangerous of all women<br>
+he's driven out hordes of marauding raiders<br>
+she's razed whole cities down to the ground<br>
+and what have I done? been beaten and tossed<br>
+training too hard just to match their weak days<br>
+bruised by the judgment of those who don't know<br>
+I wasn't like them, who as weapons were raised<br>
+I was a child and now I am not<br>
+I throw my whole body under the spear<br>
+teach me the things that you were once taught<br>
+make me the child of those who are feared<br>
+I am the daughter of my people's own legends<br>
+don't worry, my day will be coming near
+=== 12/9/17 ===
+==== [[no power (poem)]] ====
+wisdom gathers her children together<br>
+the winds blow dark, the brewing weather<br>
+is cold with frost but bright with hope<br>
+the promised sun is bound as with rope<br>
+we will wait, watchful, from shelter and warmth<br>
+when winter is over, our hearts shall go forth<br>
+full of the hope we held close through the night<br>
+knowing no power can put out the light
+==== [[(haiku for honor)]] ====
+''For D. and A.''
+Honor is a blade—<br>
+sharp and worthy of your strength—<br>
+our fierce dance and souls.
+=== 12/10/17 ===
+==== [[what help (poem)]] ====
+what help for lost souls<br>
+what prayers for tears<br>
+I turned away, friend<br>
+for too many years<br>
+why wish you forgive me<br>
+what hope for all back<br>
+that was lost in the country<br>
+of my forlorn trek<br>
+what help could you offer<br>
+that you'd not repent
+==== [[swallow the flood (poem)]] ====
+swallow the blood down<br>
+swallow the flood<br>
+the angels just might drown<br>
+the dance is of blood<br>
+the canopy's open<br>
+to dark skies above<br>
+the end of the world<br>
+stayed only by love
+swallow the bile<br>
+put fear on a shelf<br>
+don't wait for a while<br>
+but sacrifice self<br>
+the heavens are open<br>
+the prayers cracked them wide<br>
+the end is upon us<br>
+there's nothing to hide
+so open my soul up<br>
+with pain and with hope<br>
+pour out the full cup<br>
+and bind with a rope<br>
+eternity's open<br>
+the hours are few<br>
+before new beginnings<br>
+shall all things renew
+==== [[(haiku for window light)]] ====
+hope is a light in<br>
+a window— like in glass panes<br>
+what powerful gaze!
+==== [[(haiku for questions)]] ====
+what joy?— have joy! they<br>
+speak like an answer— how? ask<br>
+the moonlight eclipsed
+==== [[waters burn (poem)]] ====
+let the waters burn until they're gone<br>
+let the oceans cry 'til they blot the sun<br>
+let the dusk fall down across the sky<br>
+let lightning strike my questions why<br>
+let the earth resound with a greater cry
+==== [[though none (poem)]] ====
+shall I beg you to save me<br>
+demand you give ear<br>
+I'll not be a burden<br>
+nor carry this fear<br>
+though none may defend me<br>
+though my arms cannot hold<br>
+though my feet cannot stand<br>
+though the enemy's bold<br>
+my God shall sustain me<br>
+I will rest in His hand<br>
+and abandon all to Him<br>
+I will trust in His plan
+==== [[No Hope But God (poem)]] ====
+I have no hope but God<br>
+I have no life but grace<br>
+'Tis only by His promise<br>
+That I've been made a place<br>
+My home is in this heartbeat<br>
+My love is in His hand<br>
+Upon this firm foundation<br>
+Is my only way to stand
+==== [[Prayer 037 (poem)]] ====
+Cast me not away, O sovereign God!<br>
+Though I can't demand, not of Your love<br>
+It's only by Your grace I enter in<br>
+And bow my head before You; even then<br>
+I feel the weight of mercy on my soul<br>
+Echoing within me, Spirit groans<br>
+That I might be relieved of mortal flesh<br>
+Let light consume me wholly, add the rest
+==== [[Prayer 038 (poem)]] ====
+Christ, have I forgotten my childhood dreams<br>
+When once I walked with You so faithfully<br>
+My innocence lies tattered at the seams<br>
+And yet, You hold Your mercy out to me<br>
+Abandon all my empty foolishness<br>
+Retrun to You, my God; Your holiness<br>
+Could condemn my soul, and yet instead<br>
+It comforts me and lifts again my head<br>
+I have no hope but God<br>
+No light but love
+==== [[Prayer 039 (poem)]] ====
+Shall I whisper where the wind can't hear me?<br>
+Should I ever let the memories come near me?<br>
+Once upon a time, I knew my place<br>
+Today, I fall again upon Your grace<br>
+Will the silences rise and consume me?<br>
+Shall I face them yet when no one knew me?<br>
+What, these marks I've made upon my soul—<br>
+Will You answer me? Can I be whole?<br>
+I who knew the name of every promise<br>
+Bound them on my soul and in the premise<br>
+Of the life I lived, can I return?<br>
+Or is my heart the kind that You would spurn?<br>
+There is battle fierce, of that I'm told<br>
+Relentless weapons trying to take hold<br>
+Should this tiny light of my desire<br>
+Be flame enough that rescue could inspire,<br>
+Will You save me, Lord, out of my hand?<br>
+Will You lift me up that I could stand?
+=== 12/11/17 ===
+==== [[His Mercies (poem)]] ====
+Merciful is my Father<br>
+King over all the earth<br>
+His fingers made the heavens<br>
+His Word has given it birth<br>
+His mercies lie upon me<br>
+His love my soul renews<br>
+All honor, praise, and glory<br>
+I give Him as His due
+==== [[wake me up (poem)]] ====
+wake me up<br>
+with the light<br>
+I will keep<br>
+You in sight
+==== [[Prayer 040 (poem)]] ====
+open up my heart and pour me out<br>
+fill my soul with grace, enough to drown<br>
+let the flowing tears just pour on down<br>
+this is not my battle nor my bout<br>
+for justification, that is Yours alone<br>
+and saving me reserved for Your own power<br>
+so I cast my trust on You this hour<br>
+and throw my pain and hopes before Your throne
+==== [[far as the east (poem)]] ====
+where the waters run<br>
+where the oceans roar<br>
+where the waves fall down<br>
+upon a far shore<br>
+where my heart is deeper<br>
+than the depths of the sea<br>
+and an ocean of tears<br>
+has been wept out of me<br>
+where the tides still swell<br>
+with the cries of my soul<br>
+where the stars in the sky<br>
+don't see and don't know<br>
+that I am the whole<br>
+of a cosmos inside<br>
+that in this great flood<br>
+no matter how wide<br>
+this is truly the place<br>
+where I cast all my prayers<br>
+to the throne of my God<br>
+place my feet on the stairs<br>
+towards the heavens above<br>
+as I throw off all my pain<br>
+to the hands of my God<br>
+I am not healed in vain
+=== 12/13/17 ===
+==== [[Prayer 041 (poem)]] ====
+morning, Father<br>
+day has come<br>
+I long to feel<br>
+the light of Son<br>
+Christ the Lord<br>
+please reign in me<br>
+help me love<br>
+You perfectly
+==== [[Rejoice in Sun (poem)]] ====
+''For Z. and S.''
+Joy is in your touch<br>
+The way you love so much<br>
+The skies over your head<br>
+And meadows for your bed<br>
+How you rejoice in sun<br>
+In rain or snow—all one<br>
+In place before your eyes<br>
+Each day a brand new prize<br>
+I joy in you, my friend<br>
+Though like the lovely wind<br>
+You may fly from me<br>
+Yet stay so faithfully<br>
+It is your joy I love<br>
+Your nearness is enough
+==== [[Hail (poem)]] ====
+Faithful to our Prince<br>
+And faithful to our King<br>
+Christ His holy name<br>
+King above all kings<br>
+The heart that beats within<br>
+By His grace won't fail<br>
+Christ our given power<br>
+And His name we hail
+==== [[for His ways (poem)]] ====
+praise Him always for His ways <br>
+that cannot be fathomed nor measured<br>
+deeper than my sea<br>
+plumb the depths of the heart of God<br>
+you can never reach the bottom<br>
+of His unconditional love<br>
+though hate found home in my breast<br>
+though hurt words lingered in memory, flesh<br>
+'til the bitter dregs must be expunged by the Surgeon<br>
+still He insists upon loving me<br>
+though I've fallen in mud<br>
+though I'm covered in pain<br>
+though the tears I have shed<br>
+outnumber the drops of rain<br>
+though I've whined and I've crumbled<br>
+though I've fallen and grumbled<br>
+still He has not let me go
+==== [[praise the God of (poem)]] ====
+praise the God of all heavenly things<br>
+praise the Creator of rising wings<br>
+who made the lion's throat to roar<br>
+and taught the eagle how to soar
+=== 12/16/17 ===
+==== [[in emptiness gathered (poem)]] ====
+''For A. and D.''
+the world is filled with violence<br>
+the night echoes with pain<br>
+the cries of the hungry masters<br>
+thirst for more in vain<br>
+here in the emptiness gathered<br>
+beside me you understand<br>
+a moment of peace in our breath<br>
+we will carry on hand in hand
+==== [[a shadow (poem)]] ====
+''For B. and M.''
+you are a shadow<br>
+I know it; you feel it<br>
+each glimpse of you kept<br>
+in my secret heart<br>
+yet you are a light<br>
+shining, I feel it<br>
+my hope of salvation<br>
+in you I have kept
+==== [[shield (poem)]] ====
+''For C. and E.''
-catch me in the heart<br>
+you are my arm and my strength<br>
-like a punch to the gut<br>
+my shield and my guard when I'm weak<br>
-like blood on my tongue<br>
+my word that I cannot speak<br>
-like salt in my eyes<br>
+'til the heavens are burnt unto dust<br>
-like bruises you made<br>
+'til the oceans have boiled away<br>
-catch me right there<br>
+'til our swords have corroded to rust<br>
-so long as you stay
+I swear on my honor, I pray<br>
+I am your arm and your strength<br>
+your shield and your guard when you're weak<br>
+your word that you cannot speak
-==== [[pass (poem)]] ====
+=== 12/21/17 START OF WINTER ===
-moonlit roads<br>
+=== 12/23/17 ===
-with you, I'd travel<br>
-a thousand miles<br>
-they cannot pass<br>
-the iron and steel<br>
-that binds our hearts<br>
-that guards our hopes<br>
-that holds our love
-==== [[content to (poem)]] ====
+==== [[no ash (poem)]] ====
-waiting in silence<br>
+''For A. and M.''
-in the space before a promised dawn<br>
-breathe in and out as easily<br>
-as the morning quiet and in peace<br>
-evening stretches, silent<br>
-but I have always been<br>
-content to wait
-=== 12/5/17 ===
+bright like stars and strong like castles<br>
+wake these dreams around us last<br>
+wishing stars that never crumble<br>
+through the sky to dust, to ash
-==== [[the mercies (poem)]] ====
+==== [[set the lamps (poem)]] ====
-I am a moon and my borrowed light<br>
+winter days and warmest smiles<br>
-needs to reflect my God in His might<br>
+don't forget the way we love<br>
-that others may look and my works in their sight<br>
+don't forget too long awhile<br>
-show off the mercies of Christ
+return, my friend, as a homing dove<br>
+light the candles in the windows<br>
+set the lamps to burning bright<br>
+clasp our hands once more in joyful<br>
+welcome back, a lovely sight
-==== [[cup poured out (poem)]] ====
+==== [[(haiku for beauty)]] ====
-knock me over<br>
+beautiful, your eyes<br>
-spill my heart<br>
+your voice, a joy I feel<br>
-cup poured out<br>
+inside my mind– spark
-not emptiness<br>
-but want
-==== [[like fire (poem)]] ====
+=== 12/26/17 ===
-breath like fire in my lungs<br>
+==== [[Wake Up Call (poem)]] ====
-the night is cold<br>
-the day is young<br>
-wind that howls through every crack<br>
-the mountain seams<br>
-the canyon's path<br>
-knife of chill within my chest<br>
-hold the hope<br>
-against my breast<br>
-open up the skies above<br>
-peel them back<br>
-and even shove<br>
-let the prophecies rain down<br>
-that is where<br>
-my hope has flown
-==== [[dance in light (poem)]] ====
+Brain, wake up!<br>
+I've been putting in requests<br>
+while you efficiently<br>
+keep throwing them out again<br>
+What's with you lately?<br>
+Things to do,<br>
+to be— remember?<br>
+Get moving, keep up with me
-I am brightness come to light<br>
+==== [[through the breakers (poem)]] ====
-I came here but not to fight<br>
-Dance away and I'll believe<br>
-Wander with you, worlds weave<br>
-Painted with our hopes and dreams<br>
-Threading joy within the seams<br>
-We will dance in golden streams<br>
-The radiance of hea'enly beams
-=== 12/6/17 ===
+quiet things, the world over<br>
+spinning like a maelstrom flows<br>
+through the vortex, through the breakers<br>
+water flows and waters drown<br>
+cast the sunlight through the ocean<br>
+like the brightness, gleaming tears<br>
+beacon shining through the darkness<br>
+lighthouse beaming over fears<br>
+sit inside a hurricane eye<br>
+quiet things, surrounding me<br>
+worlds destroyed before the storm<br>
+worlds inside my heart are born
-==== [[Bright Morning, Bright Evening (poem)]] ====
+=== 12/27/17 ===
-Bright morning, bright evening<br>
+==== [[pour out (poem)]] ====
-It shines in the light<br>
-Of your consciousness, brilliance<br>
-Attuned to your eyes<br>
-The sun's not awake yet<br>
-The sun's gone to sleep<br>
-But my light is still beaming<br>
-In wisdom, I seek
-==== [[the taste of you (poem)]] ====
+The bones of the world break<br>
+You're everything I never wanted<br>
+Let the heavens shake with tremors<br>
+Roil with nimbus clouds of light<br>
+Let the lightning strike the oceans<br>
+Tsunamis quake beneath the seas<br>
+Open all the gates of heaven<br>
+Pour out all eternity
-''For B. and M.''
+==== [[in between (poem)]] ====
-I wonder at the taste of you<br>
+in between<br>
-I've never felt it, skies are blue<br>
+you and me<br>
-You have given all I have<br>
+the worlds sing<br>
-And you're the one I cannot have<br>
+the ages hush<br>
-The winds that blow, I need a guard<br>
+hearts will blush<br>
-You'd provide if e'er you could<br>
+no need to look<br>
-I reach to touch, my hand arrests<br>
+no need to see<br>
-Knowing what I shouldn't do<br>
+for in between<br>
-I've never felt, it's surely true<br>
+you and me<br>
-But I wonder at the taste of you
+is everything

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Contents

Undated 2017

February 2017

2/8/17

2/9/17

2/19/17

March 2017

3/1/17

3/3/17

3/5/17

3/12/17

3/29/17

April 2017

4/26/17

May 2017

5/1/17

5/3/17

June 2017

6/4/17

6/6/17

June 20-21 START OF SUMMER

July

7/9/17

7/18/17

7/24/17

7/25/17

7/28/17

Uncertain Date

August

8/1/17

8/2/17

8/11/17

8/15/17

8/16/17

8/17/17

8/21/17

8/22/17

8/23/17

8/24/17

8/25/17

8/27/17

September 2017

9/1/17

9/3/17

9/5/17

9/6/17

9/7/17

9/8/17