Goodbye to a Friend I said goodbye to a friend today. He lay in front of a room of friends. Draped over the front of his casket, two baseball jerseys — Reds and Yankees, And his favorite coffee cup sat upon his Bible next to them. A deck of cards had been placed near hisContinue reading “Goodbye to a Friend”
Category Archives: Poetry or Lyrics
Another Look: The Family (a trilogy)
By Chaplain Mike Originally posted in April, 2010 • • • THE FAMILY (A Trilogy) I. The Younger Here I am, father, at the eleventh hour once more, Reaper’s scythe poised to harvest fruit of seeds I’ve sown. Shamefaced, knowing full well the paucity of yield, I slump low with downcast eyes, near resigned toContinue reading “Another Look: The Family (a trilogy)”
“A Meeting” (Wendell Berry)
A Meeting In a dream I meet my dead friend. He has, I know, gone long and far, and yet he is the same for the dead are changeless. They grow no older. It is I who have changed, grown strange to what I was. Yet I, the changed one, ask: “How you been?” HeContinue reading ““A Meeting” (Wendell Berry)”
Take that, Milton
Blame Jeff, not me. Okay, blame me as well for all the quoting of Dante I do on here, which is probably what put the idea into his head. So now you are going to be afflicted with what is most definitely not a reasoned work of considered literary criticism, so beware and be warned.Continue reading “Take that, Milton”
Trinity Sunday
By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: Matthew 28:16-20 in this bed, two lovers fumbled as they found their way and it was holy when they knelt beside this bed to pray it kept them warm through many nights of cold, elusive fear when tender sweet caresses answered softly falling tears some secrets whispered in this bedContinue reading “Trinity Sunday”
Pentecost
By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: John 20:19-23 enclosed in a dark house alone with my own fear reluctant to go out, to deal with life to exert the energy it takes to listen to my tiresome neighbor complain about his cable service and the jerks who let their dogs crap on his lawn too spentContinue reading “Pentecost”
Ascension
By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: Luke 24:44-53 On a Facebook status update today, John Michael Talbot wrote: “The Ascension is not really a departure. It is entering into a new more dynamic manner of presence beyond the bounds of ordinary space and time. It is the assurance that Jesus is with us always during theContinue reading “Ascension”
Easter VI
By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: John 14:15-21 these are the words an orphan longs to hear i will give i will come i will abide and i will be with you forever and you will see you will live you will know and you will be loved forever and sometime in the night when loveContinue reading “Easter VI”
Easter V
By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: John 14:1-14 when in the dimness of an upper room my troubled heart fears an ending an abandoning, a bereaving i cannot bear the world that i have known changing the one whom i have followed departing the path that i have walked ending my hope, so solid, dissipating theContinue reading “Easter V”
Easter IV
By Chaplain Mike Today’s Gospel: John 10:1-10 he goes before me into every day before he sends me forth he himself has gone before the way is made ready the path prepared i don’t see it at first it is mine to watch and listen to filter the noise to hear that voice to go,Continue reading “Easter IV”
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