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Tag Archives: Poetry
my father is a spreading tree
my father is a spreading tree and I and many others live in his shade and branches Note: I have had this line in my head for well over a year and have been able to do nothing with it. … Continue reading
A Poem for Sunday: A fragment of Easter
I wrote this about fifteen years ago, shortly after reading that Edgar Allen Poe occasionally wrote the middle of his poems first and then worked backwards and forwards from that central thought. Sadly, his technique did not work for me. … Continue reading
Tagged Death, God, Hell, Inspiration, Love, Poetry
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mourning
I have never been anything other than a man and so I cannot know how women mourn and whether it is the same, or different I have seen the mother, the wife, the girl, sitting at her bedside, her dead … Continue reading
promise
When you lay in bed next to that other part of you though there is no need for words or thoughts or actions you are making a promise Not the foolish kind you made as a child, but a real … Continue reading
A Poem Bridging March Madness and Easter
When The Citadel beat Notre Dame there were accusations of bribery. At half-time Mike Brey had asked a ref why they had called no fouls. He simply said, “Because there were none.” “And how do you explain the scratch marks … Continue reading
Tagged Basketball, Entertainment, Humor, Language, Poetry, Sports
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This is a love story: a very short (and possibly unfinished) work of fiction
Author’s Note: This is not a new piece. I wrote it a few years ago, and while I’m still not totally happy with it, for some reason, I like it very much. So, occasionally, I get it out, reread it … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Despair, Fiction, Language, Life in general, Love, Poetry, The Unlived Life, Uncategorized, Virtue, Writing
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The Best Story, the True Myth, a poem
Over at Bittersweet Life, Ariel has posted a poem about the choice we make each day in how we see the world. Here’s a snippet: Every story that has inner beauty, That strikes a note and holds it In our … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Faith, God, Inspiration, Life in general, Love, Poetry, The Unlived Life, Writing
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Looking back on love
With apologies, these are poems that I wrote my wife while we were dating. There have been poems since then, but I stumbled across these recently and thought that with Valentine’s day coming up tomorrow, they seemed appropriate. It’s midnight … Continue reading
The Quality and Expression of Love
Over at Bittersweet Life, my friend Ariel has pointed us all to an article (on the Touchstone magazine blog) that dares to compare modern American pop culture lyrics on love to stuff written by dead people (they probably couldn’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged Decay, Fiction, Love, Poetry, Pop Culture, Postmodernism, Religion, Writing
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Simple Thoughts On Paths We Take
nothing new or revolutionary here, just some thoughts I had I came upon two roads but disinclined to follow I made my own and found, that there is no lack of paths that make their way to hell.
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Tagged Death, Fiction, Hell, Language, Life in general, Poetry, Religion, Sin, The Path Not Taken, Theology, Writing
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