Friend who has fired the kingfishers
and flamed the dragonflies –
they catch your light however they move
and beam it out of their eyes.
Stichwörter: poetry beauty christ free-verse gerard-manley-hopkins the-image
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It is something to have gazed on the constellated white,
felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love.
It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous
in the only ways we know how.
Stichwörter: shakespeare hamlet free-verse poetry-life award-winning-poem the-quintessence-of-dust utmost-christian-writers
I scratch down happiness, I
want my ink to do happy dances,
to careen across the pages staggering
like a drunken fellow, giddy
on moonshine or sunset.
Stichwörter: happiness poetry free-verse found
The ocean-blue bowl won’t
refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back
from the gaping earth-wounds.
There will still come
water, chill wind and happy
goosebumps,
and in the utmost corners of oaks,
leaves laughing.
Stichwörter: poetry nature grief free-verse nevertheless-come-autumn
I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me
Stichwörter: poetry god humility bible confession inadequacy job
Never say savor when you only mean taste –
one is a holding on the tongue and an intoxication
and the other is cursory, a sampling, connoting
reluctance to bask. Never say a thing you don’t mean.
Stichwörter: poetry c-s-lewis free-verse superlative
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