Mystery — Poem

Mystery can feel like protection. / It is able to crop up anywhere / As beauty (and tragedy) are liable to do.
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Playground

Wash the dishes, dry the dishes, / turn the dishes over. / Chant the rhyme, jump the rope, / skip with friends and keep in time. / Butterfly-...
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Impressionistic Eschatology Meets Jesus

Wars and rumors of war / On Cheerios boxes and / Izzy pop locks is / Coated with remnants / Of Little Horn trumpets / Perilously sounding in the dark...
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I Am Blessed; I Am America

I am blessed; I am America / I am December 1773; / I am the Boston Tea Party / I am blessed; I am America / I am the American Revolutionary War / I...
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Reminiscing About New England Youth...

Before the pandemic, before 9/11, things were different. Former members of the New England Youth Ensemble remember what it was like to travel across...
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Revelation Needed

Sevens upon sevens / Threes upon threes / Tipped cups and emptied bowls / Drip dripping / Cascading cataclysms too many / For one tilting planet / ...
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It’s Not Business; It’s Personal —...

When mid-March 2020 brought the world to a halt, Loma Linda University Church moved solely online as gatherings were limited and social-distancing...
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Everyday Gospel

Socially distancing, there we each stand / in a line at the grocery store. / Up at the front and beyond us / the check-out man, tender-eyed, watchful...
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Homecoming

A lilac bush outside my window / told me as a child if spring / was on its greening way.
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Matchless

Sometimes a meal of scrambled tofu / makes a sun-kissed breakfast: / a touch of turmeric, pinch of paprika, / a stir of salt and soy all mixed with...
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