WOUNDED BIRD

While you were living     your life far away the ones left behind,     remembered in stray thoughts between grieving     and hints of ...

An Invitation - Marthe G. Walsh a villanelle call to prayer Let us talk with God, oh near friend of a friend, Surrender, together, in l...

Not silver bells Silver Knells (don’t take it too seriously … really) Marthe G. Walsh Hurry scurry, festive flurry,  with a holi...

Paul Baum - "Harvested Fields in a Flat Landscape" A hint of brown in the low cloud layer, dun they call it, light reflected...

Off  Spring The trees held off longer than the daffodils buds anxious to burst bulging with the lingering  polar vortex induced  ...

A Pre-Easter Musing Just a mist of green at first, as if some seasonal Vestal fleeing the unwanted grasp of Old Man Winter had shed a vei...

                 Flurry Small flakes barely worthy of the polysyllabic description: precipitation, brief interruption of dull, unr...

                                      Just In Case There’s a leprechaun in my tea – seriously, a pale green porcelain figurine tucked...

Yeah, That’s How It ‘Twas …   ‘Twas the day before Christmas and all through the store The clerktures were stocking the shelves wi...

My friend, the poet, sends two fine poems.  The first made me smile.  The second sounds a more serious note. Wild 1, Ea...

Bleeding heart Bleeding Hearts On the neglected left side of the house far from the showy beds of peonies and iris, gladiolus and ...

In David’s Eyes   for my friend, always “the Broms” He said wait, at least ten years, maybe more, if you must tell it, let it age, matur...

MICHELANGELO Buonarroti Last Judgment (detail) Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican Fear Itself Fear itself … that is the thing expla...

  pencil there is something satisfying in the friction the drag of graphite across a blue lined page reassuring,...

It is necessary that at the beginning of this fast, the Lord should show Himself to us in His mercy. The purpose of Lent is not so much ...

  Failure to Toast The blue flash particular to a circuit fried wisp of smoke, the smell half charred crumbs half wire sheathing b...

Tense What was or is or will be, no sense in this craving certainty facts on which to safely stand, defense the default pose of w...

             An Advent Pantoum We treasure light lessened in seasons of sleep, an axis tilting toward beginning, “and darkness was on...

"The Dowry For Three Virgins" Gentile da Fabriano Churchlady (aka Marthe) The St. Nicholas Clause Q: I’m really tired of ...

Asperatus clouds - Scotland    Partly Cloudy With A Chance of Seeing Low clouds slumped, lingering, leave a thin sheet of white on...