They tell me there is no heaven on earth. But I have found pieces that resemble it and have put them together with a bonding agent made of hope and faith. And love, that when the sun strikes it in a certain way, the whole picture comes alight, as something from another place. They tell … More A Poem: Heaven
Beauty falls like rain, we can’t catch every drop, but we stand still with mouths open to slack our aching thirst. Beauty grows like leaves on the greening tree, we try to grasp the outline of each stunning leaf but can’t. Our eyes can only take in so much. Beauty rolls in like waves on … More A Poem: Beauty
Tonight when I stepped out and beheld the moon, full and white, and blooming against the dark canvas of the night, I felt a tug, a pull to a place that I knew. That I might call home although I know not from where it comes, this sense of knowing. But still I feel it … More A Poem: Tonight when I stepped out
“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.” Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-395) “And this is what I learned, that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion – that standing within this otherness – the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in … More Daily Inspiration, 22 Feb 17
I sat on a bank once, as a child. I listened to the pine branches above move to their own melody in the breeze, and I smelt their scent, enter into my heart, by a passage I had not known was there, to stain the memory. So that now, if you take me to … More A Poem: The Pines
“Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by discerning was is wrong, what is ugly, what is distorted. Christ looked at everyone he met… and saw the beauty hidden there. Perhaps it was distorted, perhaps … More Daily Inspiration, 12 Dec 16
Living Tree Poetry 