sabbatical

sabbatical 
sleeping late
watching movies
eating burgers coke
and fries at a drive-in
slithering slowly
like a snake
through the lazy days
lost blog lost words
looking for lines
piles of words
closets drawers full
jumbles of them
some hanging from trees
forming poems
in the wind
as they fall
caught by raindrops
making puddles
of poems

fox fun

eggs for the foxes
they do love them so
more than you or I
could ever know
eggs we put out
for them to find
we watch their antics 
as they playfully
decide just how
to grab
an egg and run
fun fun fun

Merry Christmas

Wishing you and all those you love a Happy, Merry, Blessed Christmas

the brave that day

giving their lives
to save the children
being stopped
by the same death
that claimed so many
of the their students
in the seconds
of their disbelief
they put themselves
in the line of fire
the brave that day

the day heaven cried

a school day
innocent children
murdered
by a violence
we don't understand
it cannot be
our tears do not
wash it away
hearts are broken
mourning their death
together we cried
the day heaven cried

tangled

lives
tangled
a revolving door
of good and bad
who is to blame
we must know
Lord Jesus Christ
have mercy on us
we are all
tangled

Sandy Hook

dawn
another day
the memory
of Sandy Hook
reminding
how lost we are
when we do
not have You
our way
becomes troubled
evil finds the crack
in a crumbling mind
answering its call
taking the most
precious thing
as it searches
for answers
life