Tag Archives: Healing

POEM: The Stub

This poem is a small tale of serendipity where even the small stub of a toe could lead to large discovery, and weather this discovery turns out to be a blessing or a curse may also deep end on serendipity. … Continue reading

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POEM: What Cannot Be Forest Upon Mother Nature

What Cannot Be Forest Upon Mother Nature As man expired His last Once agin Mother Nature breathed in A parent excrement Concrete and steel Leaving not Even a scratch In geologic time Merely having caught a cold Cold virus Feverish … Continue reading

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POEM: Neighboring Accountability

Neighboring Accountability Several homes Down There is A child molester You can’t no For sure Buddies sow nice Too those knew Kids on the block How could you Warn up to him Surly there are other neighbors Axing the question … Continue reading

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POEM: That Clarity Amidst Blood

That Clarity Amidst Blood The tides of change are rising From a tsunami of tears The salt of the earth Uniting with water The solution that is life That clarity amidst blood And where souls hit the street Awash with … Continue reading

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A Spiritual Autobiography

I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group.  While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading

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POEM: Awe That Is Fine Her

Sheez Know more than Know less than Then any won ails In whatever Whirled Privileged to breathe at awe Fenced buy abets Dis regarding Weather grate her Or less her As any won object Is any thing worth wile Over … Continue reading

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POEM: Sew Much Silence

Sew much silence And not enough Ears To take it in Awe that seams Unspoken  Just got back from a Nonviolent Communication group session with the topic of “Receiving Empathically.”  Such active listening to ourselves, other people, and, on a … Continue reading

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POEM: To Be Read Or Not

Her life was written In the margins Tolled in fine print Subject to lexicons Beyond apprehension Not adorned by elegant types Or gaudy cursive In fancy addresses Wear truth is stranger then fiction More than won could possibly ink Never … Continue reading

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POEM: Nazi Murder Trials, 1963

Courting the truth Their stories were tolled Not simply for just us But for awe of them Beyond monumental To re-member A broken body politic This poem was inspired by the 2015 German movie, Labyrinth of Lies, about a young … Continue reading

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POEM: A World Without Boarders

Mother earth bids us What rend must we pay For such fear in dwelling In apprehending tenets In discriminating borne Giving no quarter To mother and child And presumed fodder Taking the place Of wear every won re-sides Drawing lyin’s … Continue reading

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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without

I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading

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POEM: Trust is the Glue

Trust is the glue Sticking me to you The favored few The spoils of many Consume mating The fool Faith and credit Of US Divining Kindly mirror Or unwelcome truth A confidence game And quiet passably Escaped convictions Sow what … Continue reading

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POEM: Duckiness

Long the weigh I miss Took some clash Charging another Once an abject of my affection Now a worthy suspect In a lineup Of numbered whoa’s Among many Seedy subjects On the lam Yet beyond a shadow Of doubt To … Continue reading

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POEM: Compassion Hoard

I may not have bread And I can afford justice My feet may be bare And still I have wings unseen A fly on the wall Reflecting on wear thou art I cons A mass Pining for eternity I see … Continue reading

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POEM: Word Jonesing

She said Your poetry seems like a lot of work I said It’s less wordsmithing And more wordjonesing Or sew it would seam There is little doubt that reading my poetry takes some work.  It is commonplace in my poetry … Continue reading

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POEM: Getting It Together

I see tragedy in the world Not as the enemy To be retreated from Nor as an accident Captivating my perverse stares Rather a musing These puzzling pieces Of my heart Shuttered into a million pieces In chanting invitations Entranced … Continue reading

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POEM: A Rude Invitation

Violence is an invitation To more violence And a rude invitation at that Such invitations need not be returned As you might have guest Violence begets violence.  Means produce ends.  How can we escape this vicious cycle?  Must we accept … Continue reading

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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah

Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading

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POEM: Lovers of Dirt

Lovers of Dirt Wile in cathedrals The atheist Dares claim The title Of mass debater As little comes From behind the veil That doesn’t exist In the slightest Hint elect To believe Methods to their madness Seemingly beyond approach However … Continue reading

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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice

Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM).  It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading

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