Church Examined What is church? A place or an ideology, a set of rules or the story of humanity? Can church be little and rural, expensive and expansive or somewhere in-between? What is church? Church revels in monument, mythos and method. Church deals with death,…
Category: Half Marathon Poem
Infamous blue
Infamous blue Is the color that lights up Downturned laughter Upraised eyebrows Two noses, almost touching Two teardrops, oceans apart
The Dropped Match
The air thickens miasma Blood orange sun touches mountain scorches Vapours curl on eddies pungent Flames creep over parched ground crackle Building momentum rising hugging Trees stand defiant shrubs wither crisp Creatures scurry frantic directionless screams Fire-fighters scramble water flows hiss Steam rises heat dissipates…
Let Me
You don’t know how it feels to have a heart beating so fast with just the simple sight of your back Or even just a quick glance at your shoes. You don’t know what it’s like to have your pulse throbbing when you walked by…
A Narrative Poem Dissected and Redirected
Once upon a time there was a stone born blue as the darkest night. He went by the name of Lapis Lazuli. He was treasured for his purity and likeness to the deepest ocean and darkest sky. He never once saw his reflection. He dreamed…
Prompt 5: Catfish
She thinks I’m real A real live boy Whose face in two dimensions Gazes at her but won’t speak (My voice would betray me) I’m good at this, I tell her lies Make love to her With words, words, words They’re all I have to…
Hit the Keys – Prompt Five
Software Hardware Servers PCs Web Designs Browsers Domains CTPs What? Can I please just hit the keys?
Whole Once More
You are not invisible, though you walk in the shadows of this world. You are not alone, though you journey on your own. The heaviness in your heart is a fettered weight, anchored to the sorrows of the past and the unknowns of the future….
III. How to Boil an Egg
I’ve heard it said When a young man dies It’s as if a book’s been burned; But when an old man dies, It’s as if an entire library Has burned to the ground. For me, If the internet dies, I’ll suffer certain losses, and simple…
A Cold World
A morning with sun in a world frozen cold, where money is what rules and compassion is null. Tears no one sees, for those with no voice, helpless they feel alone with no choice. Tired they get in a world with no care Where is…