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White Notes on Black

               White Notes on Black No matter how you, blackbird, sing, the night Will come.  The flow of beauty from your beak, Like fluid as if streaming from the height Of hillsides or from mountain’s midday peak, Will not give pause to coming of the dark. No...

Inner, not Outer Rightness

   Inner, not Outer Rightness 12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them … , with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and...

Live Aid Because God has Allowed Famine in Ethiopia

Live Aid Because God has Allowed Famine in Ethiopia  Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem     All things work together for good  ~ Romans 8:28 The congregation raises hands and wrists In Christ Church,...

Satori Glory Despite Gray Feathers

     Satori Glory Despite Gray Feathers Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem My childhood home where The face of the little snail Was like the Buddha’s own.           ~  Issa My cockatiel named Cocky had a...

Dying Cicadas

                     Dying Cicadas   Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem May at least just one Of them live on this night, Autumn cicada.   ~ Yayū   Much weaker and much weaker comes the sound Cicadas...