Tag Archives: yearnings

callings – July 25

Posted on July 28, 2017 by landl30

7.25.2017 [calling] a memory itches at my mind pulls, calls, reaches out. a young man, sitting beside a pond an edge of green trees moving out ahead to a point. and to his right a bay less traveled where a … Continue reading →

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a room that hints – July 3

Posted on July 3, 2017 by landl30

7.3.(6.25)2017 Jesus you are a mystery to me, entering and exiting through magic walls while I watch from a room that hints without revealing.   Stop and talk with me Jesus, that I might see your face directly and unafraid. … Continue reading →

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christmas village – December 15

Posted on December 17, 2016 by landl30

12.15.2016 christmas village china setting house, school, church standing inn and fence, skaters and choir, around a wiring tree   and the remembrances of places not really past, yet visioned in our mind’s eye   as where we would have … Continue reading →

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promised – November 23

Posted on November 26, 2016 by landl30

11.23.2016 blue denim shirt and jeans, navy guy school janitor thin, curley haired hoped for hero   that I reached out to when the big kids threw my treasured blue plastic automatic pistol up onto the school roof over my … Continue reading →

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for Jack…CSLewis – November 29

Posted on November 29, 2015 by landl30

11.29.2015 a lampost in a wood shone in his mind   until one day it flowed out into a book   and then books and then Narnia   which felt like I’d seen it my whole life.   I loved … Continue reading →

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scrabble fever – December 31

Posted on January 1, 2015 by landl30

12.31.2014 red letter tile squares whirl to the next turn   an i before e or something with a c   for the old year’s last yearn   scrabble fever burns. ———————-

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a stocky little body – September 1

Posted on September 2, 2013 by landl30

9. 1 a stocky little body of a boy climbs into my lap touching places of memory.   I still know how to ride a bike read the book and talk about Mr. Peppers and his cat who loves orangesickles. … Continue reading →

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listening to old friends – May 15

Posted on May 15, 2013 by landl30

5.15 Listening to old friends on the Utube Jamaica, Chestnut Mare, Bugler Jackson, Clarence, Roger the days of my life spread out.   Poetry embalmed, embattled in a soundtrack. And how beautiful some were in their day and now have … Continue reading →

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