“Evolution has no place in Christianity”

“Evolution has no place in Christianity.” Oh how many times I’ve had that said to me! But here’s the thing, stick around, you’ll see– I’m living proof they coexist even inside a single being. Evolution doesn’t just mean dinosaurs, or 65 million billion years, or…

Swing Song: a haibun

As a girl, young, bordering on naïve, I had a tree swing. My stepfather climbed the backyard tree to tie the ropes with hands that were accustomed to being fists. Hour upon hour I sat in the swing listening to the ropes creak and the…

Forecast

Maybe tomorrow birds will sing and flowers dance to the words of a god speaking light and truth, but today it’s dark –and raining.

Rain Drops

The rain drops playing under Sun’s gaze They are laughing, They are cuddling. The sun refused to make them vapors again.   When rain pours In a bright a sunny afternoon, It seems like magic, Like nature sharing a secret, It tells me anything can…

Prompt 4

The Butterfly fell in love with the Pitcher Plant, Knew if she went near it, she will be eaten up. A small life span, was she ready to be a rebel? Leave the rose and sit on what every other insect was afraid of? Collected…

Before Darkness

When the last crepuscular rays bathe the marsh in sweet golds and pinks, predation peaks. Twilight hours inspire nightmares – ethereal veils barely separating the living from the soon to be dead. Light refracts oddly in this aqueous medium that fosters beguiling shadows. Always remember,…

Ponder

rain falls on water running brook over the rocks plink, can water drown?

Haiku #9

All the sights are glass—- all the sights are black and white when I feel fine.

Haiku #2

The trees used to close me off and now ev’ryone can see me right now.

Ablaze.

I saw it down the telescope, The last decaying ray of hope, Glinting in the setting sun, Confirming that the end had come, Sat there in the browning grass, Light caught it like a shard of glass, The ground around it caught ablaze, An ode to…