Five Poems to Read on Veteran's Day
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
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Dec 26, 2015
Christmas Day
Father, give us Christ. Star Igniter, Crack our darkness. Send the rain to heal our deadness. Only you make dry bones rise, Dim the...
Dec 26, 2015
Advent IV: Show Us Love
Father, show us love. This violent world tears Hearts apart and Leaves us trembling in our shame. Like winter leaves afraid to fall ...
Dec 17, 2015
Advent III: Teach Us Joy
Father, teach us joy. The Christmas feeling Lost its meaning In flashing lights, electric dreaming. We race and chase and check a list...
Dec 8, 2015
Advent II: Make Us Ready
Father, make us ready. This ground is fallow. We have followed Crooked paths to vales of shadow. The cracked and drought-laced dust...
Dec 2, 2015
Advent I: Grant Us Hope
Father, grant us hope. This veil of darkness, Thick around us, Is within us, and without us. Our secret sins and sicknesses Are...
Nov 26, 2015
Thanksgiving: A Confession and a Plea to the Almighty
Happy Thanksgiving, Rabbit Roomers. I posted this poem last year and thought I’d dust it off again this week. Reading it just now for the...
Sep 14, 2015
Shop Talk: Tools of the Trade
I recently came across an article by Michele Filgate on Literary Hub entitled “Writers and Their Favorite Tools.” Filgate indulges in a...
Jul 10, 2015
In The Foot-Care Aisle: A Sonnet
[Editor’s note: If only this had been written by John Bunyan . . .] In the Foot Care Aisle The foot care aisle at Walgreen’s maketh glad...
Apr 5, 2015
An Easter Poem from Dorothy Sayers
[Thanks to Lanier Ivester for introducing us to this gem. Happy Easter, folks. He is risen.] Desdichado —This is the heir; come let us...
Apr 1, 2015
From the Molehill Vol. 3: “Never, Sweeting, Could I Play Thee False”
The newest issue of The Molehill contains a couple of truly unique pieces of history. The first is an original, previously-unpublished...
Mar 20, 2015
Poetry and Pressing Into Lent
Back about 10 years ago, three things converged in my life that would prove momentous to my personal growth: I started getting serious...
Feb 19, 2015
A Poem for Jamie
This is a poem I wrote for my sweet wife a few years ago. It was published in the third volume of The Molehill and I post it here because...
Jan 26, 2015
Capturing Beauty: Miss Pork Cuisine
The small Midwestern town where I was raised is idyllic in many ways. It has a city pool where I spent my boyhood summers swimming with...
Sep 19, 2014
Emily and I
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Aug 4, 2014
O, Cavalier
Today marks yet another important date: it is the 100th birthday of Sheldon Vanauken, author of my favorite book of all time, A Severe...
Jul 16, 2014
Glory Be (II)
To Him who presses curiosities four-to-a-row across the dimpled backs of infant hands; Glory be. To Him who has made the dust of the...
Jul 14, 2014
The Making of a Home
“Clean your little corner up and see what starts to change” –Andrew Osenga, “Don’t Lose Heart” When I think of myself being “creative,” I...
Jul 10, 2014
Glory Be (I)
To Him who permits the storm-torn hickory to cross upon itself, savage as thrown ink lines, Glory be. To Him who grants the turkey...
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