Category: Poetry

Poetry

God in the Chemo Ward

“God is love, but get it in writing.”– Gypsy Rose Lee Between the two long rows of large chairs, you might see Godin the therapy

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Poetry

Passover Donkey

Behold, your King is coming to you;He is just and having salvation, lowlyand riding on a donkey, a colt, the foalof a donkey—Zechariah 9:9 Little

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Poetry

On Hardships

In the desert,the tiny, golden moleswims across sand dunes,paddling hard with broad claws.He zips across the barren terrain,like a tumbleweed,diving deep now and thento cool

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Poetry

Viriditas II

The hidden life in melistens for the voices of the trees.They are singing, somewhere deep beneaththe silver skin of old beech treessounding roots that holdthe

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Poetry

Kitchen Floor Tango

This minor key carries usAcross the floor, around the roomNot minding a bit if we can’t fly.God’s happy with us for beingOld. Photo by Peter

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Bovenkamp Meal

A green tablecloth covers the three pushed together tables.Glass pitchers of water, lemonade, and chocolate milksit on the adult’s end.Ham buns, butter, fried beans,strawberries from

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Poetry

A Winter Meditation

A bird’s soft, breast-feather driftswith the falling snowand settles on the fresh layer of white.The fine feather-wisps curve upwardlike cupped hands in meditationopen to the

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Watt, Sudan 1992

Black flies swarm in the horrid heat,circle the Nuer mother and her two daughterslying in the sub-Saharan dust of Watt.Knobby knees stick out of skeletal

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