love/antilove PAD 28

 Love’s Kaleidoscope

 

I loved you when I first saw you,

clapping and swaying in church,

when no one else was.

 

I loved you long distance,

letters and phone calls

over two years.

 

I loved you when I said I do,

one fine October day,

when I felt truly blessed.

 

I loved you for the next year,

as mutual twitterpation

carried us through.

 

I loved you through ups and downs,

and all the times

you didn’t love me back.

 

I loved you through your illnesses

when most women

would have been long gone.

 

Now, we’re “going for the gold”

and I love you now more than ever,

and even twitterpation is returning.

Fan PAD 27

 

Tajikistan

 

I’d like to go to Tajikistan.

And hike the mountains there called Fann.

The landscape looks like another planet,

with varied geology, mostly granite.

I wonder if, someday, I can

take a trek in Tajikistan.

Last Blank PAD 26, Window PB

 Last Time I Netflix Binge on Saturday Night

 

In Troas (Turkey)

the apostle Paul

preached after midnight

and a boy Eutychus

fell asleep and tumbled

out of the window

and died. But Paul,

raised him

from the dead.

 

This morning, I feel

like Eutychus

and I may not fall

out of a window,

but off my pew.

I may just die

of embarrassment.

How do you rise

from that?

Remix PAD 25

 

The Forest

 

Never underestimate the power

Walking in the woods on a sunny day

Communing hand in hand by the hour

Never underestimate the power

As wind bears fragrance of pine and flower

And birds chatter and tall pines sing and sway

Never underestimate the power

Walking in the woods on a sunny day

 

unidentified PAD 24

 

Guessing Game

 

My friend and I

used to laugh

about the time

she and her family moved

and her husband labeled

 a large group of boxes

miscellaneous 1,

miscellaneous 2,

miscellaneous 3…

leaving all the contents

virtually unidentified.

Labels,

when not well-defined,

tell you nothing,

individually speaking.

Juxtaposition PAD 23

 

Juxtaposition of Grace

 

The glory of God, the weakness of man

God’s weighty, radiant, holy glory

Try to imagine the two if you can.

The glory of God, the weakness of man  

Finite, simple, sinful, but for the plan

The two united in Redemption’s Story

The glory of God, the weakness of man

God’s weighty, radiant, holy glory

Natural PAD 22

 

Energizing

 

Never underestimate the power

of walking hand in hand

with someone you love

through swaying, singing pines,

twittering birds

and fragrant breezes.