Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 4:42 p.m. - Inspiration
The inspiration behind "Before Creation"
I was sitting with a friend in the hospital, as he waited for surgery, sedated and sleeping, and I read out of Tozer on the Almighty God, a year's devotional book complied by Ron Eggert. On the May 19th entry, "There You Have God," Tozer wrote, "Think them all away until there is no creation: not an angel waves its wing, not a bird flies in the sky--there's no sky to fly in."
The alliteration cried for a poem, and while my friend slept, I wrote "Before Creation."
And, if you hurry, you can sign up to UPLift, and get the poem, "The Patient Sleeps," written at the same time.
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( 3.1 / 3369 )Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 3:49 p.m. - Drops
A Cloudburst Drop - Free extras that have appeared here and there.
I'm blessed, I am,
• to buy at the padaria my "little dreams;"/1
• by rain that waters Earth and cools the brow;
• the spiritual Middle, which eschews extremes;
• the blessed past, the hopeful future, and Now.
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1/ "Little dreams" are a sweet pastry in Brazil.
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( 3 / 3026 )Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 5:27 p.m. - News
The CBT will be using a series of my poems for a few months. That's pleasant news![ add comment ] | [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink |
( 2.9 / 3143 )Friday, 26 May 2006, 2:12 p.m. - Inspiration
My daughter has to read Beowulf this year in her homeschooling. I saw it laying around the house one day, picked it up, and read it. I liked the style and format, even though the translation obscured some of its features.
Later, I stumbled on a site about alliterative and accentual poetry. That was all I needed. After reading through the webmaster's explanations of how to write alliterative poetry, I tried it out just in time for a poetry exercise in the Christian Poets group.
So with a tweak here or there, "Awash in the Blood" is my first attempt at this new style.
You tell me if it works or not. Say your piece!
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( 2.9 / 2843 )Friday, 27 January 2006, 3:20 p.m. - Inspiration
This week was time for the Juvenilus poem, just for kids. I'd been thinking about what kids like. Maybe it was in the shower, that it hit me: water! It's the rare kid that doesn't enjoy splashing in a pool, playing in the tub, jumping in a creek. So I've had water on the brain for a couple of days. The first two lines came to me yesterday, and this morning I sat down and bopped out the rest; somewhere along the way it occured to me to make a kid's dream follow the evaporation and condensation cycle of water.
You tell me if it works or not. Say your piece!
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( 3.1 / 2764 )Thursday, 26 January 2006, 6:07 p.m. - News
C&Q editor Sandy Brooks has accepted two poems, "Resolution," and an abbreviated version of "Rhyming Dictionary," for inclusion sometime this year. This will be my first time to appear in C&Q.
The Time of Singing issue arrived in the mail with my poem, "The Early Lights."
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( 3 / 2728 )Saturday, 31 December 2005, 6:10 p.m. - News
Lora Zill, the editor of the poetry magazine Time of Singing, just informed me that one of my UPLift poems, "The Early Lights," will go into the Winter edition.
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