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Superglue
I was once a vase. But vases are not generally considered useful things - Unless you count decorative as useful, Which it might be. (Who am I to say?) I knew a vase, once, All shiny, pretty pretty and...
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They Say Laughter is the Best Medicine
Humour has been such an important part of my healing. I have had the wonderful pleasure this afternoon of listening to the wonderful, inimitable Pam Ayres on BBC Radio 4 Extra. I can’t count the number...
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EMDR 4: Love and Memories
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on...
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Summer, Age 12
We waved off our middle child today, All pink and rosy and full Of bounce. Or, not so much bounce, what with carrying a backpack Cram-jammed full for a week of fun In the sun and the dirt and the...
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Poetry and Prayer
My words and thoughts do both express this notion, That life hath with the sun a double motion. The first is straight, and our diurnal friend; The other hid and doth obliquely bend. One life is wrapt...
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Musings and Frost
I find in the work of Robert Frost both a heavy, in-birthed cynicism and a fresh dose of reality with an appreciation for all things. I think his poetry is often focused around this conflict and as...
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Come with Nothing
Come to the table. Come, sit at His feet. Come if you’re able, come if you’re meek. Come if you’re broken, come if you’re lost. Come, come touch the heavenly cloth Of His robe, And feel Him breathe...
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Reblog: When I Say I Am a Christian
Originally posted on A Pastor's Thoughts: This is a poem I shared in a recent sermon. I share it with you “When I say, ‘I am a Christian,’ I’m not shouting, ‘I’ve been saved!’ I’m whispering, ‘I get...
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Beginnings
…Cells began to divide and re-form, as they do, and something new was made. As the weeks went by and the woman began to feel odd and sick, the new thing took shape: a comma, a tadpole, eventually the...
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