Do you enjoy your job?
Life is a job and I enjoy my life. It is a paid position of sunny days, sounds of nature and God’s presence.
Kingdom of God
The Fig Tree
In Sunday School I learned about the big red apple of original sin in the garden. How Adam and Eve ate thereof. Caste out. Ashamed. Hid from God. What I didn’t learn— it was really a fig. They ate a few. Clothed themselves in fig leaf. Hid from God. Caste out. Separated from God. How Jesus went to the fig tree for food and finding none, he said, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” Explanation mark. A curse that lifted a curse. And the tree withered and died.
Jesus new Adam
the sin of man forgiven
reunite with God
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NaPoWriMo Day 29 prompt on curses.
This is how the end comes
This is how the end comes.
It is wrapped in silver like a gift.
The gift is most welcome,
eager to see what is inside.
Inside was not what I wanted.
It was full of memory.
Each memory had a story.
They played inside my head.
The head was filled with irrelevance,
as I sought for the divine.
What could be more sought after
than a life of heartfelt love?
In love with the only One—
this is how the end comes.
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NaPoWriMo Day 27 prompt to write a duplex sonnet.
Palm Sunday
Look at a man riding the donkey
Go with him saying Hosanna
He is the one waited for
Spread the palms at His feet
He has come to save
Sing songs of joy
Praise His name
He is
Lord
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NaPoWriMo prompt Day 9 to write a nonet. This is based on Zechariah 9:9.
My Imagine
Imagine there is heaven
not only in the sky
what surrounds everything
and everyone
reflecting the divine
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NaPoWriMo prompt to pick a phrase and write against it. I took John Lennon’s “Imagine there’s no heaven”.
Crown
I wore it on my head
delirious from its weight
wanting to stay upright
posed and productive
ruling my thoughts
with more thoughts
demanding right words
to subjugate my subjects
learning to turn glistening crown
of diamonds and pearls
to a crown of thorns
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dVerse quadrille prompt with the word crown
Bread and Wine
thousands left at the thought
of eating body like bread
and drinking
blood— forbidden they shout
walk away
will you go also
but where would they go
when the answers
were more than metaphors
serve for us the bread and wine
let us feast
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dVerse quadrille prompt on WiNE
easter with e.e.cummings
easter with e.e.cummings
far from mystery of glowing
mystery find real peace in it
He has (believe it) risen
near to the sacred heart see true
heart to find a pure love in it
(believe it) He has risen
above a doubtful world made whole
world struggle find God truth in it
He has risen (believe it
beneath all try to understand
to understand and understand
I) believe it (have risen)
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NaPoWriMo Day 5 prompt to take a poem and use the structure of that poem to make a new poem. I always thought e.e. cummings as being structureless; however, this poem I chose was tightly structured. I learned a lot from this exercise.
Return
Will men understand the mysterious language of those tears? Pope Pius XII October 17, 1954
I went there
Basilica Santuario Madonna Delle Lacrime
Siracusa, Sicily
Weeping Madonna
housed in the architecture of a tear
I took a photo there
ignorant of its meaning
until now
when asked to fill a space with poetry
and now
I want to know the meaning of those tears
Does she weep for His suffering
or for the plight of a humanity
trying to return to God?
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NaPoWriMo Day 4 prompt. I took my own photo of the Basilica Santuario Madonna Delle Lacrime in October 2019, not knowing that it was home of the weeping Madonna.
MARK 14: 23-24
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