NEEDS AND WANTS You’ve convinced yourself that you need your wants and don’t want your needs! Fire says to wood and oxygen, I don’t want you! I want to slake my thirst; Give me water! Flame isn’t warm enough; I want a blanket! Wood and oxygen look at each other and laugh; when they are composed... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
THE BISHOP PINE
THE BISHOP PINE Why lament what you have suffered? Come to the coastal mountains of California; walk briskly up the ridge, sit to rest under a Bishop Pine. Let the Pine tell you of its birth, of the fire that brought its seed from the cone while slaying its forebears in the flames, of the fire that... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
IMMENSE ENERGY WAVE REACHES EARTH, SOFTLY
IMMENSE ENERGY WAVE REACHES EARTH, SOFTLY (Beginning of a news item that followed this headline in the Toledo Blade, September 30, 1998: “A burst of radiation from a distant star smashed into the Earth’s upper atmosphere... with enough energy to power civilization for a billion billion years... it... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
GRACE ON DEPOSIT
GRACE ON DEPOSIT You plead for grace. But you expect to receive it only in some gift, some check made payable to you, some package left at your door in the night. Because you only look outward, you expect to receive it only if you see it. You do receive some grace that way, but far more has been put... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
HAIKU #6
HAIKU #6 Wind in a forest of autumn colors. Glowing wood that snows flakes of light, captured sunshine softly falls to earth. ©T. Patrick Berry Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
MEDITATION #33
MEDITATION #33 Deliver me, my God, from lofty vows, from vast leaps of faith, from foolish presumption. Deliver me from saying that, because I love You, I will do this or that miracle, I will transform, I will break my chains. Let it be enough for me to merely say and live “I love You,” And to... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
I STAND AT THE NIGHT WINDOW
I STAND AT THE NIGHT WINDOW I stand at the night window and keep vigil for the dawn. Soon these stars will fade, lost in the transcendent glory of day, and I, standing silent, yearn to lose my flickering candle in You. Clouds low in the eastern sky promise a sunrise of scarlet and gold, and with the... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, April 2, 2007
I AM MIGHTIER THAN SUN AND EARTH
I AM MIGHTIER THAN SUN AND EARTH I don’t want to write on that theme. The words came out strained, distorted, unillumined and I, dissatisfied, deleted them. I am mightier than Sun and Earth. They will long outlive me, they are vaster and greater than me, but I am mightier than they. The Sun rises at... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
FIRST VISIT TO THE SHORE OF LAKE ERIE, WINDY OCTOBER DAY
FIRST VISIT TO THE SHORE OF LAKE ERIE, WINDY OCTOBER DAY This is just like the ocean, except that the wave action is all wrong and the water, being fresh, leaves no tang on the air. I cannot do anything about the waves; but then I don’t want to. The waves come quick and low as they should, for the... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, March 30, 2007
SEEDS OF TRUTH
SEEDS OF TRUTH It matters not to the ground that seed is sown in it; the ground cares not that it is disked and cultivated. But all this matters greatly to the seed. You may read these words and leave them, thinking me to be a madman, a far-out bad writer of pseudomystical doggerel. But however... Sign in to see full entry.