Stunning…
I am plain, a commonplace and crude step-sister ever watching Cinderellas snag a Prince’s gaze; nothing within or without to draw eyes or sighs. But You are on life’s horizon - Your Light is...
View ArticleGrow Patience
Grow patience when you can’t grow fruit, and soul and heart will follow suit as character rears heaven’s taste in disposition wisdom-laced. * This apple tree waits patiently for the days of frost to...
View ArticleWhen Grace Cascades
Shiver-struck in winter’s grip, frigid-bleak and glacial-crisp; branch out, soul, when ice invades, the more to catch when grace cascades.Filed under: A Wounded Heart, Abuse, Beauty, Christianity,...
View ArticleI’m Holding My Breath
I’m holding my breath, lest it melt all your silver, I’m exhaling slow, lest excitement consume; I’m slowing my heart, lest its beats quell your music, I’m stilling my soul, lest its vibrance entomb. *...
View ArticleLife’s Rebirth
Breath of Angels, frothy food, feed my soul when life gets rude. Eyes wide open to your worth, flood my heart with life’s rebirth.Filed under: Christianity, Healing, Nature, Poetry, Snow Tagged:...
View ArticleLove Seeks Other
Love seeks other through life’s maze, sees beyond confusion’s haze to heart that beats beneath the skin, finding soul that blooms within.Filed under: Love, Nature, Poetry, Snow Tagged: choices, love,...
View ArticleSoaring High
Body tethered, roots of earth, frame held fast by lowly birth; soul is anchored to the sky, jetting free, and soaring high.Filed under: Christianity, Courage, Dreams, Fragility, Freedom, Hope Tagged:...
View ArticleLife Has Carved Her Callouses
Life has carved her callouses upon my tender heart, my response was toughening the epidermis part - so soften me, oh Holy Son, with springtime’s timely rays, that roughened edges would not keep my soul...
View ArticleBloom
Patience peels the layers, gets past the rind to the heart of the matter, persistence sees beyond the fluff and seeks substance, but Love – love makes her soul bloom.Filed under: Beauty,...
View ArticleExhale
Her head hangs by a thread eyes scanning dirt as if to seek the soul hidden under a crust of regret The burden of proof on burdened shoulders grips her gaze with enough gravity to tie her eyes to...
View ArticleThe Star at the Top of the Tree
O Morning Star, You who fell from heaven to take on flu and scars and walk within weather and time and disappointment, illuminate this frigid Dark that consumes my blighted soul, that I might be...
View ArticlePollen
Your words are pollen Delicate and powerful Clinging to my soul * They remain on skin Long after leaving your lips Tattoo of friendship * Filed under: Gratitude, Haiku, Healing, Nature, Poetry,...
View ArticleReMolt
It wasn’t the stranger in her skin but the skin she didn’t own; the mirror lied to her for years in countenance unknown. But when she learned her truest self was trapped beneath that skin, she...
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