Category Archives: Poetry

Sushine, Transformed


Sushine, Transformed As the sun climbed over my eyes this morning, My brain sprang alert with questions: What is my purpose today? Why and how?  With whom? What is your will for me today Lord? I grab for it to … Continue reading

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Peace, Not Alone


Peace, Not Alone I hear the cries and I feel the hurt, But I yearn to leave it.  I seek instead the warmth and embrace of Jesus, Friend and guide, fisherman, healer, guide. When I leave this world in prayer, … Continue reading

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Recalling Cold Weather Ministry


I want to repeat this poem from early March, because I gave it short attention back then.  As we have reached milestones in our Divine Intervention, I am recalling some of my Friday nights from this past winter. March 31 … Continue reading

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Starlight Mints


No. 10 Peppermint candy, Lovely Taste, Delicious beauty, A peripatetic dancer, Skipping,                     Hopping, Whirling around and around and around and Tickling my senses, Forcing lust, Casting blue-green shadows and Mighty images. i l – o – v – e Peppermint … Continue reading

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Disciples Act


We’ve studied the Bible for 19 weeks now in our Disciple Bible class at First United Methodist Church of West Allis.  Truly, it is a marvelous curriculum, and I am with a wonderful group.  I have thought about how the … Continue reading

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Maibandu, Are You Safe?

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Maibandu, Are You Safe? I know Maibandu in my mind, and in her letters, But letters that are written with helping hands. I see, in little images, the long-past deaths– Father, Brothers, Play-palls–of Men and boys gone sooner than imagined. … Continue reading

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Which Way Now?


    Which Way Now? Follow me? Am I following in the right direction? Which way did he go? Which way do I go? Thinking about suffering, the way of the cross, I worry about me, worry about Him and … Continue reading

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