Tag: love
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Et Lux Perpetua
We are five, we are ninety-two, sometimes shining gold, others flying sky blue. We are Beethoven symphonies and ballads and blues, with Picasso and Van Gogh in all their hues. We are pencil and paper but speedy computers too,with AI and robots and rockets that flew. We are cardinals and robins and pigeons galore,with turkeys…
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Ma Bird
She leads me into the storybook place,Little chirping birds-naked newborns nestAs we gently reach in their houses-What are these strange-lings?She knows them well-she watches over them-But her joy is in the showing Them unto me. Nestled in my little hand-filling it up.We travel on to the next place-House after house-spring has come!Behind the squeaks and chirps, The rooster…
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Mama Bear
I saw a moment reflected back todayIt seemed to skipAlong the waters of time-From me to son to daughter.School halls ringing,Lockers slamming-bodies pushing,Furtive glances, smirks sprayedAcross my heart-Can’t I stop it? Can’t Iwrap my arms around herAnd take her back?Protect her from the pain and the hurt that willSplatter the halls and walls?Can’t I keep…
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The Mother Voice
Humming softly at the sink-she breaks into full song- Her hands soapy while “I Need Thee Every Hour” streams up Into my room. All must be right with the world in that second, Or is it just that all is right with her and God? Something intangible quivers through my soul, And presses itself into…
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Ode to the Concussion
Pain, pain, go away!Never come another day.Leave your lessons at the door,Surely I have made the score? Vertigo, vertigo, please be done,Don’t you know, you help no one?You create a turbulent shore,There is nothing I hate more. Noise, noise, why so loud?Even when there’s not a crowd?Please be soft, please be still,You are…
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Change and Rain
We have such a strange relationship with change. Leaving our mother’s womb was probably the biggest change of our earthly lives, but we don’t have a memory of it. Did we feel some terror upon leaving the security of that miraculous abode? Now, we leave her again to get on this large, long, yellow vehicle…
Treasures Along the Way 