Category: the word became fresh

  • Keep Me

    If I begin to morph and mutate Into a conglomeration and collage Of all the things I never wanted to be– A ball of Emo hiding in a back alley A slicing scream secluded in a silver haze A swerving erratic line of up and down– Remind me again to breathe you in, Drink in…

  • To Kiss the World

    I longed to kiss the world, or perhaps cup the lovely broken pieces (some call them nations, others say they’re countries) in my palm and smooth them like I would a newborn pup or a yellow hatchling, hold onto them like I would a dreamy whisper the color of a shy sunrise If I asked…

  • The Noble Infinity

    Time grows in my belly A sweet secret swelling Highlighting the Noble Infinity That longs inside me. And it is a pure longing, A raw agony, An exquisite sorrow Of naked fire, naked Untouched by survival and strife. It is a precise movement, Desire That only creates and never destroys. A pain unadulterated by Death,…

  • Faces

    Love you Set free Birthing Space Like orbits And galaxies To encompass This exquisite peace And the false ones Fall to the ground Discarded and lovely In their expiration Their purpose–to fall Silent in the Face of Love– Having been fulfilled Love You Set Free

  • The Way You Move Me, pt. 1

    I lifted a thought, Like a shy tendril of new green Or a slow unfurling of sunrise. And it was a thought of you. Up you went, past the crease between my eyes, Smoothing the frown that shades my brow Sifting through the queenly streaks on my crown You flew straight into the film of…

  • What He Whispered When I Woke

    My bride, my dove, my perfect one I dream of you in eternity to be more dazzling than a supernova exploding in the sweetness of your breathing, I’ll whisper all the mysteries held in beautiful paradox and watch them blaze alive in your eyes, tongue, tears—oh center of my heart! You sometimes run and hide…

  • heartmouth

    there are some whose hearts make the words they carry glimmer more than their weight in gold, diamonds, rubies and sapphire there are some within whose hearts lurk shadows and veils that mar and stain their words, make them stagger, limp, sigh, and expire

  • Eyes to See

      figuring it out to see a person is to love that person eyes to see are eyes of love, acceptance, mercy, compassion, grace, joy, hope and faith.   eyes to see a person is to love that person, to be completely and irrevocably in love with the all-ness, fullness and redeemed brokenness of God’s…