Good/Happy gorgeous, Friday May morning to you... Across the eastward brink of earth, a sea of unplumbed moments tolls Something about a new day’s birth wakens awareness in our souls For He who sets before our gaze, Hope’s Frame filled with mercy renewed To author a glad hymn of praise and unspeakable gratitude Ahoy! The hours fleetly fly between daybreak and twilight’s knell Soon their plumbed aftermath will lie like husks strewn where dusk’s shadows fell Leaving behind the words and deeds we tossed like seeds along the way A blend of fruit, flowers and weeds that will be threshed on ..read more

Happy Ascension Day! Acts 1:9-11 After He had said this, they watched as He was taken up,  and a cloud hid Him from their sight.  10They were looking intently into the sky as He was going,  when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.  11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky?  This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven,  will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.” Isa.55:12 You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;  the mountains and hills will burst into song before ..read more

Wishing you a day filled with thankfulness-revelations! James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. In light of so much suffering and loss recently, suddenly potato salad fixings for a belated birthday supper tonight seem sacred, the ground beneath my feet, holy! The best way to become more tuned to gifts we else might overlook Is to have them withheld a bit; how dearer then the thing we took For granted. How purer the joy we often gave no second glance Until means we could not co ..read more

A montage of glimpses that helped inspire today's poem... a poem that ended up being an all-day-long doggerel as lines were snagged between a rather dizzying dash of to-do-ness Treetop’s translucent flickers wink; its first fanned flame is brief Soon every bit of blue-sky chink will be filled in with leaf... At dusk frayed half-leaf shadows sprawl beneath a pastel sky... And everywhere we look green ambience haloes the land Unraveled in skein after skein from the Creator’s hand... Time’s wheel of seasons spins; it’s the beginning of Sweet May The Belle of ..read more

Here's to spring rain; it’s drops unchain a well of poem-ink... Here’s to morn’s feast, mercy-released, that bids us eat and drink After a beautiful sunrise yesterday it clouded over and rain, previously forecasted for today, altered my plans; mowing lawn, weeding and edging. But, as of now,  today is sunny  and I am glad (because there are weddings happening? one in our neighborhood with an outdoor service planned!) Today's poem is inspired in part, as I ponder  the funeral I attended the other day;  as husband/daddy and children broke  their eulogy into ..read more

Yesterday morning my mom, sisters and sister-in-laws  gathered in a joyful celebration; a birthday... Happy birthday, Karen ?? (picture used with permission; photographer my sister, Lucy) (click HERE for a record of some of the prayer requests shared over the years for Karen and my brother Dave, her husband.   We were each invited to bring approx. 6 stems of white, pink and/or purple flowers to create one big bouquet from all of us??? Yesterday afternoon a community of mourners gathered (after a tragedy mentioned HERE and HERE) to remember the life of a de ..read more

I can hardly comprehend the haste of moments meting/melting months,  but here we are, ready or not!! Happy, happy May! Before our eyes, beneath our feet, beyond Bygone’s snuffed tolls Daybreak begets a gleaming street teeming with living souls Daybreak begets a fallow field, soon strewn with words and deeds Daybreak begets the sacred yield of yester’s scattered seeds Daybreak begets the fiery forge where earnest faith is tried Daybreak begets Mercy restored and hope still on our side Daybreak begets the helping hand of He who never fails Daybreak begets the unveiled land as heaven’s ..read more

Final prompt for April's poem-a-day challenge from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest! For today's Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a The End poem, and/or... Write a Beginning poem. One evening as I listened to this glorious piece of music below... HAUSER - Tristesse    ....it seemed as if it played the heart of April and I began to pen an April love song that was never completed This April, my joy as been visited by its inevitable counterpart; sorrow?   calling to mind these words of old from Eccles. 3:1-4 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activ ..read more

 From Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest... Tomorrow is the final day of this challenge, but remember: This challenge ain't over until it's over, so... For today's prompt, take the phrase "Until (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. It's easy to love the 'easy to love'. But, not everyone or everything is easy to love, in turn, turning life into a big lesson-book! Until we love each other more and cling to grudges less And take care never to ignore or neglect promises Until we gently co ..read more

Today's poem-prompt form Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest: For today's prompt, write a persona poem.  A persona poem is just a poem narrated in the voice of a persona who is not yourself. Because I grant no guarantees I tick and tock, I fly and chime... Dear You, proprietor of dreams And plans, that I alone estrange Where, no matter the age, it seems Human Nature will never change Dear You, I'd like to, if I may Before I take you by surprise  And what now seems secure, falls prey To resting places I disguise    I'd like to remind you to pause And ponder well ..read more