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Category Archives: Devotional Poetry
Your Monday Blessing: Anxiety Dream
I dreamt I had to give a presentation to a huge number of people. I arrived extra early, just to make sure I had time to prepare. I was left to myself, no one disturbed me, and one thought came … Continue reading
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Your Monday blessing: knock knock
The army knocks on my door to say he died bravely. The witnesses knock on my door to say we won’t make it past death, or we will. While I knock on your door, Shams, so that God might dance … Continue reading
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Your Monday Blessing: How Love Gets Made
How Love Gets Made Our hearts beat time As neurons race to build a bridge To anything outside of itself. A thousand strands hoist sparks to greet the wind. A network of millions carries enough excitement To be aware of … Continue reading
Tanka: everything left
Love is everything you left in the sink, the washing up that awaits the heart that’s ready for warm suds and rolled-up sleeves.
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Your Monday Blessing: Special Offer
I don’t want to brag, but sometimes I walk the little lane behind the recycling drums, and, if the stars are out at night, I purchase the entire universe in exchange for whatever happens to be in my breast pocket.
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Your Monday Blessing: Orison
The word God breathed into existence, to give it shape, was “please”. It is often heard as a command. But in the winds, one hears the sigh of the lover.
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Your Monday Blessing: Love the Hunter
Love roams the earth Looking for victims Sacrifices to the high God She is not inescapable Some days we are too fast too wary Once I was able to disguise myself as a man looking at a train timetable She … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, love, Origen, Unitarian Universalism
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Your Monday Blessing: The Company
Look, you’ve been fine. I have been thoroughly entertained, if that was your concern. Damn near heroic, in places. I even liked the bits where you lost your way, clambered about the stage – not that I was rooting for … Continue reading
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The Marriage Ruling
It was a courtyard bell ringing, tugged by a hundred million hearts, just as the service starts. It was Marion Anderson singing, as Lincoln watched. It was the Stonewall that cried, “no more.” It was the jagged piece of our … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing: Consider Your Eyelids
Consider your eyelids as open palms, a child’s hands. At the end of the day – the good day, the bad day – they stretch out towards the heart in offering, giving the day back to Papa.
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