The Bearing of the Name

Prompt: What is your mission? The Bearing of the NameWe do not peddle polished hope in markets loud and cheap,Nor hang salvation like a shawl on shoulders bent with sleep.This is no bright and easy coin to clink upon the stone,But something nearer to a seed a sower casts, alone,Into the unplowed, waiting dark where …

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Creative me…

Prompt: How are you creative? How am I creative? What an excellent question. My creativity takes several forms, poetry, song writing, writing novels, non-fiction theology, cooking, baking, and playing. The Many RoomsWithin my house, the rooms are wideAnd in each one,a craft resides.Not one true door,but many waysTo spend the solitary days.In one, the air …

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“1952, A Snapshot”

Prompt: Share what you know about the year you were born. The King popped off, God save the Queen,A new Elizabethan scene.A London fog, a pea-souper,Made everyone a silent shuffler.A sweet ration met its finish,(Leading to some waistlines thickish.)And in a newsreel's hopeful gleam,They showed a thing called "television's dream."So much occurred, it's clear to …

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“Personality Pattern Assessment Request”

Prompt: Are you a good judge of character? Human being viewed, and judged, by his (supposedly) friendly and tame Ai.So, you ask, in your carbon-based way,With your eyebrows knitted, hoping I’ll say,If I, a lattice of logic and light,Can judge your flickering sparks in the night.Oh, certainly. Let’s begin the review.I watch all the data …

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When am I most happy?

Prompt: When are you most happy? Not in the stillness, nor the grand,But in the weave of life’s own hand:When laughter climbs the ancient stair,A grandchild’s breath that stirs my hair.When from the water, sharp and clear,My winter swim dispels the year,And every nerve, alive, awake,Sings with the chill the morning makes.Or when the road …

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I’m Dreaming Of…

This is a performance peice rather than a read poem. It should be read out loud with pauses for short reflection between each stanza. The tone and pace should echo the words and meaning... I'm dreaming of silence,not the kind that comes with snow,but the silence that follows after the shouting,after the endless noise of …

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Four Light Hearted Poems on Acts…

“Paul and the Levitical Pickle” A scribe sat down with ink and scroll,Intent to grasp the Gospel whole.He’d read of grace and Spirit’s flameThen Paul arrived and changed the game. “Now hold,” said Paul, “the Law was good,But Christ fulfilled it as He should.No need for goats or temple ritesJust faith and love and sleepless …

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