RAW DOUBT

Tentatively asked,
“Do you think you could love me?”
Softly answered, “Yes.”

ONLY KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH

OF GOD by Thomas Merton

This photograph, posted previously, has long spoken to me. Perhaps the season of Lent has brought it to mind yet again.

Consider...

LEAVING

Dead from the neck up,
Not so bad a place to be.
Living in my heart.

(Poem inspired by photograph taken by and used with kind permission of Christine Valters Paintner of www.abbeyofthearts.com. Join Christine's Poetry Party now!)

MIDWINTER

Twelve billion year old stardust
seeds, imbedded memories
remember. Tightly wound
paperthin heads poke through
the fertile ground of being
seeking sunlight with an instinct
born in ancient swirling cosmos,
dancing to the songs of angels,
stretching their faces to the heavens,

singing, praying “Adoramus Te.”

(poem inspired by and photo taken by

and used with kind permission of

Christine Valters Paintner. Join Christine's

Poetry Party every other Monday at

www.abbeyofthearts.com)

DREAMCATCHER

Rearview mirror dreams
Catching hope as the wind blows
Mind the speed limit