Tag Archives: Religion and Spirituality

killing god

God is easy when we use Him to explain what’s wrong here we love putting words in His mouth to suit our politics and explain prejudice but if He  spoke, just spoke to us about how we are the problem … Continue reading

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legally blind

There is no right or wrong in this visioning, only sight from eyes that were born flawed, unfit to serve, though these lips know the kiss of fire & lit, sing here there is just my seeing filtered & corrected … Continue reading

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apocalypse poem #3 (daily faith)

my grandmother’s eschatology was from Daniel & John, quoted or read with my mother in the afternoons, slow ones after tomatoes were put up, windows washed & the dusting done, the jam jarred & herbs strung & drying between rafters in the … Continue reading

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apocalypse poem #2 (longing for apocalypse)

the Millerites, tired of waiting for the second Advent, said Christ needed to be persuaded, prayed down from the clouds– their faith a ladder for His descent, a new Jacob’s if you listen hard, over 100 years later you can still … Continue reading

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