Looking for the Light
Poetry and prose from a person wanting to live the ordinary days noticing the wonder in it all.
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September Poems (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThen the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being ~ Genesis 2:7 Can a prayer be a sigh not a wail or a sob or even a strong sentence through soft shiny lips what if day to day tiredness has left arms limp, lips dry hands that barely manage to turn, palms up a begging woman's silent cup an offering of surrender, fill me up fill me up
Summer Snippets (opens the original)
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