This City-life

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God, give us the time machine
To show us what we hope to see

The way the wool would flow and float around
Our happy ankles

When we walked free and were let be
In the Garden, there

Oh, wear and tear and fibre’s snare
Since we’ve not tak’n good, good care
To guard against the urban’s grey
The droughted field’s thirst at mid-day

Lord
Please take this pain away

You’ve said they know not what they’ve done
And we forgive them, too
Each one

With prayer and hope
And You
We
Are
Made
Anew and clean

God, You are our Time Machine

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae; FieryPhotography.com

Not Pie

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Act we, as if
Our piece of pie space
Our map-dot place
Is all there is

Defend it furiously
Argue to exhaustion
With a wrongful righteousness
Then wither with its fruit

But what when
We turn and take notice
God’s graced us with abundance
Its seeds to sow?

Stopped

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What problem?
Lord knows
We were fed and safe and tucked in at night, with somewhere to go in the morning

The air was magic
Man, was the air magic
For us, at least — which was the problem

The laughter spilled
Our future felt filled
It was all more than we could ask for

And we didn’t have to ask — which was the problem

We didn’t ask whether they could spell magic
Whether laughter flowed from their windows
Were their futures filled?

Were their babies and boys and men fed and safe and tucked in at night, with somewhere to go in the morning?
Lord knows
And that’s our problem

boy

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Neither a nurturer
Nor a ‘til-the-end friend

Wasn’t a warrior
Just a walk-away-er

Giant, silent chaos-creator
Truth-debater

Left the City for the farm
Shallow, self-indulgent charm

The countdown’s begun
He’s long gone…and was always gonna run

A Tale of Two Days

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I stare out windows a lot. I notice. I pray. I pray today that today wasn’t some mistake.
“Pray With Me: A Haiku”
Don’t reverse daybreak
The light in our eyes called Hope
Energize our prayers
#MLKDay2025
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Original Thought Credit: “And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” — John 14:13-14

“Peek”

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Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

A man who has positively impacted my life is the One who has given me eternal life: Jesus, fully God and fully Man.

“Peek”

It’s Heaven, I’m told
Paths of truth veined with gold
Sudden grandeur that stops you, cold
No next shoe set to drop — breath on hold

Poetry, penned, directly for me
Affinity
A kind of kindness that makes man’s soul free
It’s Heaven I see

Photo Credit: Lisa Mae, FieryPhotography.com;
Mt. Denali, July 2016