Not to Worry
Tomorrow will worry about itself. - Matthew 6:34 It’s not worth worrying if worse is to come, And though it’s easier said than done I, for…
Peak Season
It’s peak season and we’ve not yet taken peep or peek At these leaves so soon- even in a week- to leave us. We’ve been people believing…
Some Notes on Contentment and its Opposite
1 Happiness is contentment when nothing’s happening, Is not the bliss of not missing out on some moment Gone almost before we are or were aware…
At Home in the Snow
I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places -Frost, ‘Desert Places’ Now a downy snow floats down…
God’s Scarecrow
The people stood by and watched; The rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him ~ Luke 23:35 Husk and shell of yourself, and yourself only nothing But so…
In a Dry and Fiery Season
He holds back the waters and there is drought; He sends them forth and they overwhelm the land -Job 12:15 There hasn’t been a gust of…
Too Bright to See
It’s too dark out now to catch fireflies She sighed, and while not quite right Neither was it, I believe, a childish lie- A cast line, rather,…
A Drive to Live
Seventy is the sum of our years, Or eighty, if we are strong ~ Psalm 90 Now I know how Death’s closer than it appears By looking…
Impressions of a Rainbow that Never Showed
Into every life a little rain must fall… There’s no rainbow without the rain… …
Dancing and Danger
Two sisters, not more than three or four, Twisted and twirled in tight, bright circles Across the floor of Your World Coffee Near where I sat last…
In a Maiden Season
(Lyrical impressions and flowery meditations on some picked theme of her and me) …
Some Notes on (Not) Noticing
He saw no colour but those he knew…but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them. - Tolkien, The Two…
One Less Leaf
(auras of all my autumns) I One less leaf, though a loss, is no cause for grief, Not when so many still cling tightly to their…
At the Revolutionary Graveyard
(On Death, and the desecration and desertion of the once-living by the future-dead) I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he…
Lines Like Incense
May my prayer be set before you like incense -Psalm 141:2 Smoke of incense with prayers of the holy ones Went up before God from the hand…