Category Archives: Poetry

Nothing but . . .

Posted on February 21, 2024 by apronheadlilly

He is not a consumer in need of my goats and bulls, my screaming, bloody, placating, keeping His wrath at bay. Even if it sounds holy, my meagre offerings, my sacrifices that do seem to cost me something, would never … Continue reading →

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Psalm and Some

Posted on February 5, 2024 by apronheadlilly

I will lift up my eyes to the hills— . . . to Sinai? To the hills surrounding Jerusalem? To the strong, towering places? . . . to the high places where pagans sacrifice to their puny gods? . . … Continue reading →

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I Want to Return

Posted on January 27, 2024 by apronheadlilly

I want to return to that place— the comfort and ignorance of childhood, the rooftops, the trees, haylofts, and attics, the fast river and railroad tracks that led nowhere and everywhere, green fields and barbed wire fences, and salt licks … Continue reading →

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Poets in a Blender

Posted on January 26, 2024 by apronheadlilly

I think my barbaric yawp can sound not only on Walden’s Pond, in a metro, or beside a red wheelbarrow, but can also sound by a mended wall, near a road less travelled, and even in front of Herbert’s altar. … Continue reading →

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Things Old and New

Posted on July 31, 2023 by apronheadlilly

Psalm 49: 3-4 plus . . . My mouth shall speak wisdom –wise words, tough truths passed down by generations of the faith-filled, the Spirit led and the meditation of my heart –the thinking, the praying, the thought-struggling shall give … Continue reading →

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And So I Wait

Posted on July 3, 2023 by apronheadlilly

Is it idiocy in trying to find a theodicy that clearly reflects and defines the Divine—His world and His relationship to it, a belief that clearly explains the pain, the in-the-trenches plodding of life, the gut-wrenching sorrows bookended . . … Continue reading →

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All These Things

Posted on April 10, 2023 by apronheadlilly

All these things that decorate my home, things I have created with passion and energy, skill and sometimes surprising serendipity: They color my home with warmth and visual pleasure. They still bring me joy and satisfaction, remembering those phases of … Continue reading →

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Another New Year

Posted on January 2, 2023 by apronheadlilly

N ow is the time to take stock, to E valuate choices made—to right W rongs, to plan a way forward that Y earns to see others needs as E ven more important than the A ll-consuming passions of the … Continue reading →

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Standing Alone with Elisha

Posted on December 5, 2022 by apronheadlilly

We all like to think that standing for something big would not be too hard because in a part of our head and heart, we know that we really aren’t standing alone– at least, really alone-alone. And yet, there are … Continue reading →

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Collector of Words

Posted on November 7, 2022 by apronheadlilly

I am a collector of words, a hoarder of fractured phrases. I scribble in the margins of my life words wild and wonderful that shout a divine “wow.” Other words I grind down fine as they seep into my belly, … Continue reading →

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