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Second Coming

A crowd looks up into the sky

And watches bright clouds part

Some offer prayers to God on high

His focus from the start

A verse may pass through Christian minds

About His coming near

They handle this in different kinds

They now cannot ignore

A wondrous truth to note today

The image of the clouds

To know Him surely, come what may

The anchor to the crowds

With childlike eagerness to go

To the great city of our God

haiku

Mercy withholds pain

Grace smiles on the undeserved

Forgiveness applauds 

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Someday

We’ll all pass through the door of Death

And bow before God’s wondrous throne

Someday we’ll take our final breath

And finally we will be home

We’ll praise, we’ll worship, dance and sing

And reminisce the love and smiles

Eternity with joy will ring

Forgetting all the pain and trials

Curtal sonnet

Moon and Son

The great round moon is nailed to the night sky
Like Ahab’s coin is nailed to Pequod’s mast
And tempts the passions of the common soul
To one who spies the whale, this coin!” the cry.
The  number promising the moon is vast
Yet Ahab’s offers were to take control.
And so man’s earthly aim is just the same
But He who placed the moon forgives the past
And promises to heal and make us whole
Relying on the sweet and precious name
His Son

Poetic Asides Card

Business Card

C ardboard rectangle explaining who you are

A ddress, phone number, email, what you do

R eadily taken, easily lost, or if remembered,

D irect connection, great potential for future 

Poetic Bloomings ABC poem

God

A ttentive

B eautiful

C reative

D ivine

E ternal

F aithful

G ood

H eavenly

I ntelligent

J ust

K ind

L oving

M ighty

N urturing

O mnipresent

P owerful

Q uieting 

R eal

S pirit

T errific

U nderstanding

V ictorious

W onderful

eX alted

Y ardstick

Z ealous

Prayer

Attentive Ears

Thank You, Lord.

You know what I need before I ask it.

And You know what I need

even if I don’t know it.

Please, meet all my needs-

the ones I know

and the ones I don’t know.

I put my trust in You.

Lead me. Guide me.

Fill me with Your Spirit.

May we walk hand in hand

and heart to heart,

conversing together.

Friends at all times.

Poetic Bloomings Something Gotta Give

Overdue

Something’s got to give.

Somethings got to pop.

It’s eight days past

when this baby should drop.

Grandma wonders when.

Grandma wonders why

that baby won’t come

to give his first cry.

I’m big as a blimp.

I’m feeling lazy.

Please come baby,

before I go crazy.

PA note poem

On My Desk

If you were able to make it over here

past the clutter

to find this note

I’m probably dead.

Nice knowing ya.

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On Fridge

Are you bored?

Lonely?

Frustrated?

Angry?

Feeling like a failure?

If so, what you need

is not in here.

10 21 PA bulletin board poem

Along Highway

By the time you read this,

you may have run off the road.

Rispetto

Anniversary Today

Some thirty seven years ago 

We made a promise in my yard.

But very little did we know

That keeping it would be so hard.

So whether rich, poor, well, or sick

With God and grit we made it stick.

For better, worse, great or best

We’re trusting God for all the rest.

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The Smile

I didn’t go to church a lot as a child

but I remember one time

squirming in the pew,

looking back behind me

and a lady looked into my eyes and smiled.

I wondered why and turned around.

I had a loving family, but with five girls

in a small house and my dad not believing

 in spanking but yelling, making eye contact

with a smile was rare.

It wasn’t until I was eighteen

I realized Jesus was like that lady.

He looks into your eyes and smiles.

Praise acrostic

Praise

P ositioning myself before You Lord with

R apt attention. Blocking out the white noise

A nd reigning in my thoughts before You.

I praise Your Holy Name and thank You,  

S incerely. You are good, worthy to be praised,

E ternal, the only three-in-one God.  I love You.

Response to snow lover

Yes, snow is precious, it is true.

A lovely scene, and moisture, too.

But when my toes are turning blue.

I go kerchoo! I go kerchoo! 

Prayer of Receiving

Missed Blessings

I stand barefoot

in cold creek water

as it rushes past

carrying leaves,

twigs and fish.

Lord, help me latch

onto Your blessings

and not let them float by

like so much fish and debris

in the stream. 

Prayer

Thank You for Knowing

All about sparrows

and all about me.

Lord, draw near

and let all evil flee.

Fill me with Your Spirit.

Guide me in Your ways.

May I serve and worship You

 all my earthly days. 

Poetic Bloomings monotetra

I’d Like to be a Snow Bird

The golden aspens in a row

Do chatter as the cold winds blow

Soon winter’s coming this I know

Let’s skip the snow, let’s skip the snow.

The rain descends, the sky is gray

And it grows colder day by day.

The baring trees, they swing and sway.

Snow, stay away! Snow stay away!

Yes, Colorado’s a mile high

The snow comes early. Hear me sigh.

So here we sit. I don’t know why.

Down south, let’s fly! Down south, let’s fly!

Poetic Asides Ekphrastik poem Eiffel tower

Perspective

Viewing my daughters pictures

taken from the Eiffel tower,

Paris appeared white,

like dead men’s bones,

reminiscent of Ezekiel 37:1.

Whoever called Paris romantic

mustn’t have had an aerial view.

Poetic Bloomings Force of Nature

Secrets

The sunrise instills a calmness

Though most seldom feel it

The fog casts its mystery

But few can reveal it

The thunder sings its song

Though not all care to listen

The sun dazzles water

Though few see it glisten

The ocean hides it treasures

That most don’t uncover

The wind whispers secrets

From an eternal lover 

Poetic Bloomings Force of Nature

They ran away

with shrieks and screams

A force of nature

are those beans!

Poetic Bloomings Ballade

 Creation Shows God’s Praise

They rise up from the land

Like monsters of the deep.

Their ridges resting and

They look like they’re asleep.

The mountains grand and steep

Applaud Him all their days.

Their beauty makes one weep.

Creation shows God’s praise.

The oceans roar their song

Beneath blue steely skies,

Declaring loud and strong

The grace of one so wise.

His greatness advertise

Repeating with each wave.

Their honor never dies.

Creation shows God’s praise

The forests tall and green,

They hide within their shade

Their wonders seldom seen.

Choice treasures that God made  

With beauty so arrayed

His wonders He displays.

Their glory doesn’t fade.

Creation shows God’s praise.

 The mountains, oceans, wood

And all that He has made,

They praise Him as they should.

Creation shows God’s praise.

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To Stand

Lord, life appears as cavernous

And I feel tiny at its face

A dragon may be lurking there

A finger beckons me and thus

Advancing to discover where

To wrangle issues like a bear

To operate loving God and

My neighbor as I bravely dare

And life goes blur right out of hand

I wish they’d stop the trickling sand

And soon I’ll join heavenly band.

The name of Jesus helps me stand 

Poetic Asides Evacuation

Louisiana Evacuation

Nothing like the feeling

you get when a hurricane

descends on your daughter

as she escapes to Arkansas

and then days later makes

her way back with a convoy

of cars. And then you

listen on the phone

as she returns to her apartment

and checks her toilet

for critters that may have

washed up from the flood.

I’m glad she’s in Phoenix now.

Nothing more to worry about

than a haboob on the highway

or heat exhaustion.

PB time

Clocks

Longcase

Mantel

Cuckoo

Lantern

No matter how grand,

decorative, clever

or charming, they are not

the time machines

we wish them to be.

PB time

Time

T ime ticks away

I ncessantly, persistently

M inutes, hours, days, weeks, years till the

E nd. Then like fireworks burst in a night sky…timelessness.

Prayer

The Author and Artist

I’m like a blank screen

begging to be written on.

Lord, add Your thoughts,

Your colors, Your intentions

Your dreams, Your inspiration.

Create a masterpiece in me. 

haiku

Feeling like a train

Sitting idly on the tracks

There’s not enough steam 

PA patterns

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 Broken heart

All in the town must know.

She chooses to grieve the loss a while.

Then catching a glimpse of sunshine dancing through the window pane,

She spies the ad: single white male, loves to hike and walk barefoot on the beach.

Poetic Bloomings rubaiyat

At Twenty-Nine

When death comes knocking for the young,

When music stops before song’s sung,

We pause to feel the sorrow’s pain.

Too soon, the final bell has rung.

The thoughts surge slowly through the brain.

It feels like acid through the vein.

You wonder why the tears won’t come

Or if the numbness will remain.

“It can’t be real,” beats like a drum.

Impossible! It sounds so dumb.

The sky’s still blue, the days go on.

Where did this throbbing ache come from?

The joy and hope becomes withdrawn.

Tear after tear, the grief does spawn.

You cry until the tears are gone.

Then they return with the next dawn.

In the moment

Morning Moment

Trying to corral my thoughts,

like wild horses, though I may

look relaxed sitting here in my

comfy chair tapping on my laptop.

Justin sits to my left on his chair

with his knees up, one leg crossed

over his knee at the ankle. He’s

playing with one of his noisy toys,

singing a counting song, three pigs,

five ducks. Let’s count. Vanessa

sits at the table eating. I can see

her head peeking up from the back

of the wheelchair. Now Loren’s

shaving Justin, who’s trying to

smile while being shaved. Loren

sings along with the toy. Time to

brush teeth, Loren says. My cue.