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To Catch a Sunbeam
Now is when you catch a sunbeam and put it in the pocket of your cut-offs, storing it for a rainy day. Then, you can cup it cool on tear-stained palms and release it into the wild, unleashing...
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The Nudge of the Refugee
Taught to remain dead from the womb, she walks among tombs, whitewashed crypts concealing skeletal remains of 1,000 generations, closets clammy . and fungal. She bites the apple of her ancestors...
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Her Secret
She radiates joy. Joy sizzles and pops around her, a force field of Sun in miniature, multiplied - reflected off a thankful heart; its power persists in shadows, transcends rainy days, stands true...
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Ingesting Light
Born in the darkest of alleyways, she was laid in a box, in rags, the body which expelled her too cavernous in its own need to hear her starving heart break. Abandonment gets in your DNA, they say -...
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Far From the Tree
When Apple first fell from the Tree, she bobbed along on her sea of forgetfulness, oblivious to the bruises on her backside, pockets of pus hidden by a polished red skin. She named her world...
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Summer’s End To-Do List
Soaking up sunshine Storing rays for darker days Treasuring the light Filed under: Beauty, Gratitude, Haiku, Living in the Light, Nature, Poetry, Positive Thinking, Summer Tagged: clematis vine, haiku,...
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Daybreak
You live in the land of the Dawn, the place where Light is being born. Darkness grips you still, as labour pains begin. You exist in the Between, the not-yet, the middle of the fairytale, where witches...
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Where the Sun Don’t Shine
Stiff upper lip and thick skin blocked some of the blows,sure. But they also blocked something she needed more than oxygen, more profoundly than safety, more urgently than bars. . And now that she’s...
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The 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...
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Cosmic Battle
Night admits defeat, Melts into forest shadows - Broken by the Light Filed under: Beauty, Christianity, Haiku, Hope, Living in the Light, Nature, Poetry, Positive Thinking Tagged: battle, darkness,...
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She Dug
It wasn’t her mess. She never asked to be buried alive. She didn’t even own a shovel. But her desire to see sunlight grew strong, flexed hope like muscles rippling, horses straining at the foreign...
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Seeing the End
Where there is light, you can afford tunnel visionFiled under: Choices, Courage, Freedom, Hope, Imagination, Living in the Light, Nature, Poetry, Positive Thinking Tagged: choices, hope, light, light...
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Coronation
Crowned by thorns, breaking its chains, daylight conquers.Filed under: Beauty, Christianity, Freedom, Hope, Living in the Light, Nature, Poetry, Seasons, Strength, Winter Tagged: breaking chains,...
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Ready, Set, Grow
Where tears met the fog, Your armour grew - Negligee wrapping Pain in more palatable form, Deflecting eyes from Bones brittle as death. If you allow the Light To strip you naked (Sinews and seams...
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Touched by the Light
Dying foliage Becomes a blaze of glory When touched by the LightFiled under: Aging, Beauty, Christianity, Fragility, Freedom, Haiku, Hope, Living in the Light, Nature, Poetry Tagged: autumn...
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In the Grip of Hope
Frost’s bony fingers Beckon us toward the light, Remind us of warmth.Filed under: Encouragement, Haiku, Hope, Living in the Light, Poetry, Winter Tagged: fingers, grip, haiku, hope, light, metaphor,...
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Glowstick
Glowstick gleam in deepest dark, incandescence blooming bright; Tube and charge which cause the spark must be bent to make it light. So your splendour glimmers best when life’s pressures twist your...
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Destiny
Solo, she is only ice, Charlatan in paradise; When she lets the Light shine in, Then her glory can begin.Filed under: Beauty, Choices, Christianity, Growth, Identity, Living in the Light, Nature,...
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