Celebrating National Poetry Month with Poems for the Soul . . .

 The Old Rugged Cross On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suffering and shame; And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I [...]

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A Robust Soul–Robert Louis Stevenson

  I have loved this author ever since I can remember.  As a child, I loved (and still do!) Robert Louis Stevenson’s A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES.  Who wasn’t raised on TREASURE ISLAND, KIDNAPPED, AND THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE?  I certainly hope most of us were! According to Wikipedia, Stevenson [...]

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Winter Feet

Blanched and frozen are the country ways where pentacostal flames of dogwood blaze . . . and upland to the wood, an owl’s retreat of lonely echoing. Ice worn, these winter feet, this heart that pleads “But give me one more spring!” by Margaret Longenecker Been Reprinted from MORNING IN MY EYES by Margaret Longenecker [...]

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To Our High Priest

We’ve not resisted unto blood – No massive death, no Royal Requiem, But only little death – A quiet lacrymosa to our Lord. Yet He, in all points touched, Suffered our infirmity – This tiny splinter of a Larger Cross. He knew the thorny sadness of our pain, And bore the aching nailprints of our [...]

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