Found Poem: Words that Delight

by Lane | Poetry, Writing

Who among us does not have dreams that this year will be different? It is not over,  this birthing. There are always newer skies into which God can throw stars. You enter the  extraordinary by way of the ordinary. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Even a...

Between

by Lane | Poetry, Writing

Between This line  And the next I may have Fought a dragon Or was it a dragonfly?   Between  This line And the next I may have strolled around the block Or down the lane On another planet. Between  This line And the next I may have chatted with a friend Over a...

Pursued by the Word

by Lane | Advent, Poetry

Blessed Lord, who has caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast, the blessed hope...

Sea Sense

by Lane | Poetry

  Ocean Tints Terra cotta dawn Salmon sunrise Melon mornings Hibiscus noon Dreamsicle afternoons Flamboyant orange storms. Somewhere between peaches & cream and light salmon sunset Lingered Sticky as orange blossom honey, Full of sherbet’s aftertaste....

Truth Lent

by Lane | Lent, Poetry

  Ash Wednesday: humbling reminder of who I am in relation to the great I AM. noticing what is lent to me by the One who made me. giving up what is too important to me to let in what is most important for me. embracing a new practice to erase an old rut....

In Purple Haze of Morning

by Lane | Poetry

    Plum perfect: as in the royal sunrise tickled me awake with lavender laughter. I slid down the bannister in my favorite periwinkle PJs, inhaled the lilacs,   toasted the day with blueberries,   as tart and bright as an amethyst, intoxicated...