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| Android art from selfie taken during the ride retold in "Eulogy." See Poems with bicycles. |
Two years into retirement, I took a desk job at my church and quickly found it to be a fulfilling second career. Up to then, I'd been posting at least two new poems to this blog every month. Because the job takes up my time, my brain, and my tolerance for sitting at a keyboard, I've completed only two poems since I started work.
Yet I'm happy with the ones I've posted here. They express what I intended, and the best ones surprised me by going beyond my original intentions. If my latest poem remains my last one, I'm content.
I'm grateful for Susan Rouse, whose discipline of painting images every week inspired me to create the material for this blog.
Link here for a complete index of my poems, alphabetical by title. Below is a selection of my poems arranged by theme:
Poems that make me smile:
- Wingtips (2022/07) | Grandmother's magic.
- The Day After Valentine's (2023/03) | An apt rhyme surprised me.
- The Kingdom of Heaven is like (2022/02)| A new parable from something delightful I witnessed, as brief as this comment.
- Dear 7th Grade (2022/07) | How students redeemed a horrible time.
- Long Division (2022/01) | Dog poem about Mia.
- Accessible Poem (2022/09)| Dog poem about Brandy.
- Evolution (2022/05)| Two wonders, birds and words.
- Sleep was Inside Me (2023/05) | I discovered that a strategic line break could cause the reader's eyes to mimic the motion of the cat.
- Island at Indian Head, Quebec / L'ile Dan Rose (2023/03) | A young writer dreamed that he might produce so much good work that one day he'd discover good stuff that he'd forgotten. With the discovery in 2023 of his poem from 1986 (in two languages!), that dream has come true.
Poems related to Psalms, scripture, and the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (1979):
- Solar Power (2022/01) | The sun...rejoices like a champion to run its course. - Psalm 19
- Mountaintop Experience (2022/01)| O Lord I am not proud; I have no haughty looks. - Psalm 131
- Ukraine, Second Week (2022/03) | He has shown me the wonders of his love in a besieged city. - Psalm 31
- Swimming Lapse (2022/03) | You press upon me behind and before...; if I climb up to heaven, you are there. - Psalm 139
- Etymology of Abundance (2022/04)| I came that [the sheep] might have life and have it abundantly. - John 10.9-10
- Coming Soon (2022/04) | Jesus said to her, "Mary." - John 16.20
- Angels Never Know (2022/07) | And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven... - Genesis 28.12
- At 63 (2022/08) | In You we live and move and have our being. - Collect for Guidance, BCP 100, after Acts 17.28
- Midnight Psalm (2022/09) | Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work or watch or weep this night. - Evening Prayer II, BCP 124. (The form is an acrostic, à la Psalm 25 and others.)
- Cliff Hanger (2022/11)| Blessed be the Lord my rock, who trains my hands to fight and my fingers to battle. - Psalm 144
- Live Stream (2022/12)| Save me, O God...The torrent washes over me. - Psalm 69
- We Thank You for the Gift of Water (2023/02) | - Holy Baptism, BCP 307
- Conspiracy Theory (2023/02) | Now when these things begin to take place, look up, raise up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. - Luke 21.36
- Eulogy (2023/04) | For He does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. - Lamentations 3.33
- Our Father (2023/09) | Lord's Prayer -- first in a projected series.
Poems with bicycles
- Atlanta, Sunrise Saturday (2022/03)| Thinking about how to make a poem from what I saw turned a familiar trail into something wonderful.
- Bike, Snake (2023/03)| Spoiler alert: he wasn't hurt. I love this poem.
- Doggerel (2022/11)| Cowboy poetry from the bike saddle.
- Eulogy (2023/04) | Live-streaming a funeral during a ride through the park.
- Interview with Box Turtle (2022/02)| We've met on the bike trail twice, same place, years apart. We have so much in common.
- Microclimate (2022/02)| Triggered by a bike trail phenomenon.
- Season Premiere (2022/01)| Fall fell with a crash.
- Self Checkout (2022/01)| Scanning the trail ahead.
- Solar Power (2022/01) | What a little sunlight can do.
Poems about getting along.
- Alternate Route (2022/10)| Learning from a prisoner.
- Behind Prejudice (2022/04) | I was taught that racism was wrong; I learned prejudice anyway.
- Expiration Date (2023/01)| Waste.
- Live Stream (2022/12)| Look away.
- On Track (2022/12)| Literally, the first thing I remember; allegorically, the rest of my life.
- Why Don't You Just Learn English? (2022/01) | When this happened, I froze.
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| Watercolor by Susan Rouse |
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