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Dirt Wars
Not a lot of people know this, butwhen dirt has wars with other dirt,they threaten to reduce each other to human being.They may even call each other human being –or (in a civilized conflict)they root through the internetto dig up … Continue reading
Posted in Other poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged dirt, ecology, humanity, interdependence, war
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Shrove Tuesday
In 2022, on Shrove Tuesday,forty miles of Russian tanks drove into Kiev,as a global climate report announced that more parts of the planetwould soon be hot, underwater, rife with mosquitos, or extinct.The pandemic had been going for two years. It … Continue reading
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged climate change, hope, Lent, pandemic, pentecost, Shrove Tuesday, Ukraine, war
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After the Massacre: A Christmas Poem
When it was accomplished, and Herod’s soldiers returned from Bethlehem, a silence settled over the land like frost. The odd wailing, like the purposeless wind. And it came to pass in those days that a mother, after her child … Continue reading
Diary of a visit to the refugees
About a year avon, in Nov. 2015, I went for just a few days to the island of Samos with several others to volunteer with the refugees there. It was a wonderful – if harrowing – experience and I’d love … Continue reading
The Children Herald the Bombardiers
The children herald the bombardiers, as they march through the town, resplendent. The children offer the bombardiers their drawings, their scrap iron, and their kisses. The children step like bombardiers, near the recruiting station (for the children will be the … Continue reading
Remembrance Sunday Sermon – Park Lane Chapel, Bryn, 2015
They were not just soldiers. They were bricklayers and collier workers and parcel clerks. They were Sunday School teachers and part of the congregation at this chapel, who sat in these pews. They were sons and brothers and new husbands. … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons, Sermons - Text
Tagged peace, Remembrance Sunday, service, veterans, war
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Your Monday Blessing: A young man’s arms
A young man’s arms will never find his granddaughter’s embrace. He knew his desire to be of service, he knew his mates, he saw Verdun, such as it was, he briefly knew a shell, and not much more remains to … Continue reading
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