Facing The Monsters

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:” Tolkien Fear is a powerful thing.  It can make you move mountains, or allow you to hide beneath them, or bury you.  I miss the ignorance of youth.  I miss when everything was

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It Should Have Rained Carnations

The sterile fresh scent of carnations permeated the air.  Reds, yellows, white, and red striped flowers danced starkly against the grayscale backdrop of my world. Feeling like I was in an old slow B-movie, I looked down at the lifeless body of my mother.  I wanted to scream this can’t be real.   She wouldn’t leave me.   I might have

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Empyrean

*Photo purchase from Big Stock Photo—Majestic sunset in the mountains landscape. Overcast sky before storm. Carpathian, Ukraine, Europe. Beauty world. by Leonid Tit By Juneta c 2009 My pillow is the cloud As I dip my feet in the sea of heaven I stand alone on the edge And stare into the forever blue .. .. My soul cries to unite Yet I

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A Conversation With God

*Big Stock Photo by Belphnaque Originally Written 2003   REPOSTED SEPTEMBER 25. 2013 It is funny.  This prayer is just as applicable today as it was the day I wrote it.  Life is not linear, but an ever-revolving, growing, expanding-circle of change, good and bad, until the end.     I don’t know how I became so lost in this old

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