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Month: May 2020

shavuot anew

flames burn hot today and yesterday – and days before. I pray for fire – pure with shalom.

Christians, dove, fire, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jews, pentecost, shalom, shavuot, upper room

validated

Today I live and stand in my own story.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, choice, hope, Life, Love, Poetry, recovery

entropy of a marriage

collecting scattered atoms to original boxes

disorder, enthalpy, entropy, fight, marriage, renewal

dividing by zero

sometimes it helps to think a clever theorem was at work

#DIV/0!, addition, divide by zero, division, excel, fathers, math, pi, Poetry, presence, spreadsheet, subtraction, undefined, zero

dandan

best friend.
stood up.

forgiveness, friendship, hurt, loss, reconciliation, recovery, redemption

namesfacesvoices

this is tactical hatred.

Ahmaud Arbery, betrayal, dehumanize, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, George Floyd, Philando Castile, riot, Trayvon Martin

what the hell

speechless wonder at the brutality of it all.

approval, bigotry, brutality, George Floyd, indignation, Poetry, police, privilege, Racism, sadness, tolerance

all in the same storm?

convenient, I say, They in their boat, I in mine. Let’s just blame the storm.

Ahmaud Arbery, boat, gay, George Floyd, hate, Homosexuality, Jesus, Love, Racism, Robert Frost, shooter, storm

cassandra

no worse curse! There’s not, I thought.

cassandra, curse, disbelief, greek mythology, maslow, prophecy

symbiosis

her presence extracts a fee.

#picandawordchallenge, choice, cost, fee, friendship, pay, presence, selfishness, selflessness, symbiosis

consensual adults

Bravo to those privileged enough to get it perfectly the first go ’round.

brokeback, church, closeted, Homosexuality, married, parents, pastor, regret, therapy

Afterrise

physics does not play by my rules

down, gravity, physics, Poetry, up

I Need Permission

I wasn’t as brave as you were to face it head on.

brave, church, Gay marriage, hero, Homosexuality, Love, pastor

88 keys for a reason

Is there room for classical expectations and contemporary frontiers?

bernstein, chords, Danse Macabre, discord, dissonance, harmony, Mozart, Music, Poetry, Saint-Saens, tritone

out of the gray

Vibrant verdancy followed fast on the heels of the late vernal torrents.

blue, gray, green, Indian summer, Poetry, spring, sultry, summer, sunshine, warm

postmortem

I do miss the antediluvian remarkbut you still nailed it. the PBS pedagogues, too.I like the switch around original way … More

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, #poetry, analysis, antedeluvian, autopsy, meaning, Poetry, think

As Ben Dances on the Edge of Heresy. Again.

Notice any gaps there?

Christianity, church, creed, Love, paul

just baggage

Laughter – just baggage

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, baggage, blog, Poetry, profanity, upbringing

Go Straight

deliverance comes with obedience

bee, gay, hell, hitler youth, Homosexuality, make believe, march, straight

happymess

a question.old as the hills

etymology, fortune, happiness, happy, lottery, luck, lucky, Poetry

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