Is your strength gone or what, that you’re afraid and aren’t serving God? (aren’t serving God) Is your strength gone or what, that you’re afraid and aren’t serving God? His favor is enough, is enough, enough for you now, Oh, yes, dear one! God’s grace is enough, is enough, enough […]
Sea-Spell in Kep
The sea sounds— relentless rush of rain, full on a clear night. Sewn into the sable sky, high stars glint in their patterns. The moon hangs, suspended, a dark sphere in a bright cradle, a golden hammock slung on a void. Out of the sea a hundred white wings of […]
Out in Dawn
In closed, warm rooms, made with hands doors guard borders, dividing space. Creak! heralds my egress into Out. Creation sprawls open, cool swirling. Damp gentles the air. Fingers of filtered blue creep from the east, but the moon does not know. Bathed in borrowed light she gleams brighter than the […]
Haiku Trio: Angkor Wat
Jungle Seeded stone split, bred shoots, roots—life strangled secrets for a thousand years. Monkey Five-fingered feet lope, thief gibbering at lost gods. Beast with human eyes. Stream Stone bed monsoon-filled, liquid glass running over carvings magnified. The Khmer (Cambodian) Empire once ruled over much of Southeast Asia, and its kings […]
A Poem Called “Desire”
I dreamed of summer, green and gold. The sun, he knew his strength of old– coolness dwelled in night and rain, and all things knew their place again. But a whisper came, a wintry breeze; the leaves fell tumbling from the trees, and I awoke to something strange– I remembered. […]
Hymn #280: I Ask Leave to Go
Sung this Tuesday, at a funeral. 1- I ask leave to go, oh, brothers, sisters–there can be no return– oh, to leave intimates, to leave blood kindred, oh, my beloved, we who have joined in such dear fellowship. 2- I ask leave to go–oh, precious beloved, be eased of grief […]