The Avian Liturgy

The early morning darkness isLit up by the simple prayers of the birds.Beautiful songs lifted up to the Logos.A primitive avian liturgySung every morning from Eden to Gethsemane.Praising the Creator of their delicate sky-held hearts.Condemning the arrogant daily,And lifting the spirit of the weary.Woodstock, USA, 2020Painting by: Deborah Newman

An Earthy Consummation of the Love in My Heart

Adderall sunshine lights me up Before a swift northeastern wind Cools me under black clouds. Aqua stains old poems When Bedouin rain drops Descend upon us from the dune like cumulus. The dust and sweat of China Wash down from the bill of my hat Mixing in with the Georgia red Like some earthy consummation …

A Traveler of the Stars

As long as I'm in pursuit of You, I can never be lonely, my Love, For I carry You everywhere And You infect every crack and crevice Of my broken being. I am Your Kintsugi bowl And it's Your gold That has put me back together again. I shall never break As long as I'm …

Monday Night Beneath The Towers

It's a Monday night beneath the towers, And for no particular reason, I've decided to get drunk. Maybe it's the city Maybe it's that sucking sound Coming from my innermost being. Daoist tears from a thousand years, Collected in the taste of a beer. I drink to Li Bai, I drink to lovers from another …

How Necessary Is It To Have Opinions

Yes! No! How necessary it is to have opinions! I think the spotted trout lilies are satisfied, standing a few inches above the earth. I think serenity is not something you just find in the world, like a plum tree, holding up its white petals. The violets, along the river, are opening their blue faces, …

May I Learn To Love You Like This

Too late I loved Thee, O thou beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! Too late I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within and I abroad, And there I searched for Thee; Deformed I, plunging amid those fair forms which Thou hadst made. Thou wert with me but I was not with Thee. Things …

December Days Under The Trees

When you get down to it, Life is two friends Sitting by a river on a cold day Reading the words of dead men And basking in the glory. ...................... There are times When your body shakes From the pulsing blood, From the conscious thought, That this is your life. There is nothing you can …

The Prophet and The Wilderness

I watch the people as they pass by my island Not one stops to look out on the water, Not one puts even a foot in, And that's all fine and well, But I wonder quite distantly, What meaning do they find in life? ......... When I am alone in the woods, I am not …

God Would Kneel Down

God Would Kneel Down I think God might be a little prejudiced. For once He asked me to join Him on a walk Through this world, and we gazed into every heart on this earth, and I noticed He lingered a bit longer before any face that was weeping, and before any eyes that were …

Bugs in High Def… Beauty and Intricacy of Life

Dig on this beauty.... Hope it makes your day brighter. Photographers credited below each pic. CLICK TO MAKE LARGER! By Missflykt By Smederevac By Alhabshi By Alhabshi By Colin Hutton By Zulus77 By Alhabshi By Melvyneo By Evirgen2008 By Martinimal By Colin Hutton By Alhabshi By Alhabshi By Alhabshi By Alhabshi By Colin Hutton By …

Intellectually Honest

Intellectually Honest For me... It's God In my heart, Or A gun In my mouth. ...................... The End My mother always said Just focus on your own life And forget about the rest. But I can't just close my eyes As civilization Crumbles around me ...................... The longer we are apart, love, The deeper my …

Pulled From The Sea

The bird chirps its worship song The bird chirps its worship song. The bamboo knocks together, A living wind chime. I drink my black tea Hot and earthy. It tastes like the goodness God spoke of when He Pulled the land out of the sea, I sit, Quietly awestruck. Some people Some people, Are like …

I Live In A Poem

I live in a poem, That is the pleasure. To put it into words, That is the struggle.

Truth and Love

You need both mind and heart To make it through this life. So fill your mind with truth And your heart with love, For truth without love is pointless, And love without truth is temporary.

Parking Lot Philosophy

Parking lot philosophy Steel table science Cool breeze spirituality And a forest fire religion ......... Flame does not catch On concrete and steel and glass How cold and safe we live Tearing out the beauty Before it has a chance to grow In fear it might move us To a place slightly more dangerous ......... …

Why Are You Here?

Within 15 billion years The odds against These words Having come into existence When they did Are as high As the odds against The eyes that are reading them And yet I don't feel like Any of this Is just a cosmological accident ......... Mathematically: The odds of this universe, perfectly suited to sustain life, …

Hidden In The Holes Of The Waterfall

The sun, pours over the trees. Who lit its flame? The moon, pulls at the tides. Who placed it in our sky? The water, quenches my thirst. But who is it that gives me life? They tell me While standing in brick boxes of human thought That all of this Was by accident. And yet, …

There Are Places (Poetry)

The heart of Eden Has lain in my arms. A spirit of peace And childlike satisfaction Has kissed my face. The vain frivolities Of our age and kind Seem to have no grip on her I lay weary I lay broken And she strokes my head Stroking my misery Into the void of time And …

Haikus

#1 You lie on God’s bed, Which is a soft grassy field, A sweet young flower #2 The goose has courage, More than most men I’ve met Standing guard its nest. #3 My spirit is here, Floating within this river, It quenches my fire. #4 I pray for the seed, That’s buried within your heart, …

Courage in a World Full of Darkness – A Short Story

The darkness had come for her with determination, and he had destroyed it without mercy and without question. He had drenched himself in the blood of evil men, for her. ……… We could make a good life here, Hezekiah thought as he sipped his morning tea on the veranda of the old Dutch Mission. An …

Looking Back: 12 Months of Poetry

Here are Poems that I wrote in the last 12 months or so (not as many poems as you may think) and have been in posts on this blog and on facebook. So for those of you that haven't read my poetry, here is a ton of it in one place to get a feel. …

The Everlasting Man – God and Comparitive Religion – G.K. Chesterton

Below is an entire chapter from the book The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton. It is profound and talks of the emergence of paganism in the ancient world... I know it doesn't sound riveting but it is. Read it, you will not be disappointed.  He writes so clearly, and has a very unique take on …

Music That Moves You #4 (Top 5 of Spring 2011)

Passionate song. Makes me feel good. Makes me want to dance. The best part is towards the end. AS ALWAYS LISTEN TO IT LOUD No I don't wanna battle from beginning to end; I don't wanna cycle love, recycle revenge; I don't wanna follow death and all his friends. Death And All His Friends - …

Yet in love He sought Me: Hymns and Poetry #1

Been reading alot of Tozer lately, and he always inserts hymns, poetry, or prayers at the beginning or end of his chapters. These are a few hymns/poems that spoke to me. And Can It Be That I Should Gain By: Charles Wesley (1707-1788) And can it e that I should gain An interest in the …

Astronomy and God

“Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say “supernatural”) plan.” Nobel Laureate Arno Penzias Earth is “a lonely speck in the great enveloping …