Life in Shadows
I have no real reason to publish this poem today, other than the fact that in the process of looking through my notebooks for a different one it spoke to me. I don’t even remember if there was a specific …
The Ancient Sins of Modern Man
Today’s sonnet is inspired by my bad habit of checking my phone constantly. In fact, as terrible as this is to admit, Twitter is one of my biggest sources for news. Not for the information itself, but as a launching …
Pity the Fool
The Black Lives Matter protests have been making me do a fair amount of personal soul-searching regarding my own education and interaction with Blacks. I had an excellent education for many reasons, not the least of which is that I …
The Road to Uganda 7: A Communion Feast
I was supposed to be traveling to Uganda this week. Even to me, that fact is barely comprehensible. To be honest, even though I’m still planning to go on the trip, which has been tentatively rescheduled for next year, the …
Babylon Falls
Over the past two weeks in particular I’ve been contemplating the poet’s role as a prophetic voice, and in particular whether that’s part of my own calling with poetry. Let’s face it: I’ve written a handful of nature poems here …
A Haiku and a Song
This week is heavy. I don’t think I have any poems appropriate for it. So today you get a quick haiku and a favorite song. Lord, this is too much for us feeble ones to bear. Please, Lord. Come back …
A Personal Virtual 5K for the Dawn Treader
Update, 6/6/20: I ran the marathon in 37:51, and together we raised $230 for the Dawn Treader! Amelia F. won the random drawing for donating, and Laure H. had the closest guess at 37:58. I’ll be contacting them both later …
In Heaven, Every Skirt Has Pockets
First up: oh hey, I was interviewed for a poetry podcast! You can hear it (and the previous six episodes) here. In light of the podcast, I debated pretty heavily with myself about what poem to publish today. I thought …
A Servant’s Heart
I have no particular reason for sharing this poem today, other than that I was flipping through my old notebooks and liked it. I’ve never been one a person who needs many accolades. In fact, words of encouragement is probably …
King of the Britons
Today’s sonnet is from last November’s poetry prompts; I think the exact prompt was [blank] of the [blank], and of course my mind immediately jumped to Monty Python. At the time my RPG group was playing a campaign that investigated …