So many worries on my mind.
Christmas is coming.
Friends wonder where I’ve been,
Family wonders when I’m coming.
So many shoes left untied.
So many hurts left unsoothed.
What are all the answers?
Conflict and drama abound,
Everyone seems unsatisfied
With something.
The darkness grows.
But deep in that darkness,
Just where you’d least expect it,
There is a light.
And that light grows,
And grows,
And grows.
Grace comes to sleep
In my tattered stable
This holy season.
The Christ child finds
A less than perfect home.
But he makes it perfect,
Just by his presence.
Please, Lord,
Help me remember
The reason
For the season!
Striped
After take mop seed wrap till trip
Tick tap happy lip laugh elbow
Rip ripe howdy help heap map
Might mite mote ripe keep kite
Lock pole probably dead deaf
Door Dell idea deed diaper fight
Fright deep dappled free capped
Vindicate viper value sip striped
Woke
How west where wheeze
Same well lean quick
Lamp lose kiss order
Make lit pit swim peek
Peck quiz miff tick sock
Smack piss sort lots
Bite might deep drip
Slit tick tot tight type
Veal vamp quad lob
Beep freak pump pipe
Prevent lick muck if
Swipe mark let woke
Slipped?
Slipped slopped wick stop
By you, by me, score oh no
Push trash pop yell stomp
Shove grab caught run
Catch move throw spin
Happy celebrate relief
Scared surprised nervous
Countdown seconds to
Go press hold jump pump
Panic fight patient quiet
Made it ending sleep
Zipped
Long lots order sorts keen
Reel very when towards
Kick queen lamp elbow
Every sink self sappy inside
Enter ink elbow weird where
Tween lip clip queer click
Quick sit bit lit pit swat wafer
Weep whelp whip raw slot
Sweet weeds sweet plead
War ill wipe cleave salute
Fleet sleeve fleece space
Race bleep tweed zipped
Wrap
Below between keen stifle
Stop stick strict howdy happen
Rifle ripped rack lack laughing
Happy creature lip wand weeping
Reed stork climb clobber click
Stipend steep stripes quietude
Life lacked lord leaked ricochet
Lick hoard X-ray reek Rick lob
Man might mead muck leap
Pump pipe puke prop plop if
Ick Rock white tight type slight
Swat swipe write right light fight
Quite crap vat evacuate clip
Quack zap step hip hype lip
Fight wack plight flight zip wrap
Mad Haste, But Not Too
Mad haste to taste my waist,
Unless you’d rather baste
Until the sun sets in the puddle,
A gentle reminder that we are rubble.
Southern tumble makes me wonder
Why are we so tender in the middle?
Still, the crumble cars that travel
Seek to stumble, but not too
Busy, But Happy
Anxious elephants stampede
Across my heart.
The tidal waves of rushing blood
Speed through my veins
To nowhere.
I cry a silent scream
Enveloped in marshmallow cream.
I smile because I have had
A very busy, but fulfilling day.
Can there be more to come?
As another poet has said,
“Let’s be weird together,”
As much as our inspiration
And adrenaline will take us.
Then, perhaps, after that
We will sleep.
Missing You
Missing you,
In body but not in spirit,
Shows me what I miss
About those happy times,
When we were together.
Thinking back
Over the years,
There were many good times,
Which made us closer,
As well as difficult ones,
Which made us stronger.
I value all the experiences
That we had together,
Because you are
Important to me.
You can never
Get all the years back,
All the time and distance
That lies between us.
But I know,
That whenever we
Are together again,
We will cherish that time,
And not take it for granted.
It’s so easy to get lost
In the business of life,
All the many distractions.
But please never forget
That I love you.
Away, But There
Far, far away,
Thinking of you.
Close in heart and mind,
Remembering times past.
Today I heard
What you were up to,
On this holiday.
I wished you well,
Full of hope,
But sad to be so distant.
I still hope, one day,
We can be together again,
Celebrating
Like so many others.
So, now, I make
A toast to your health,
And peace for your soul,
Until I see you again.
Stumbling along the sidewalk 