Tag Archives: free verse

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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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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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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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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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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Betrayal

Posted on October 3, 2022 by apronheadlilly

I have been thinking about betrayal lately— the splintering of trust, the shattering of expectation. You go along, accumulating pieces of relationship, of mission; and you collect a colorful and varied panoply that looks like truth, feels like truth, and … Continue reading →

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My House is Haunted

Posted on May 27, 2022 by apronheadlilly

My house is haunted. I detect the wily ways she uses to move about, subtle but there, unnerving. My husband notices dishes that I have previously washed—meticulously, I might add—and they will have miniscule specks of baked on something or … Continue reading →

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After All This Time

Posted on February 22, 2022 by apronheadlilly

One day slips slowly by, minute by minute, filling up its hours. One life slips slowly by, hour by hour, day by day, filling up its limits, bounded by health and will and intersection with others on this human path; … Continue reading →

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Threads

Posted on January 7, 2022 by apronheadlilly

How fragile are these mortal threads that bind us to one another, friends and family. That water would be stronger than choices made, that blood would be thicker than trouble. But these silken filaments made strong in adversity from without … Continue reading →

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I Believe

Posted on January 5, 2022 by apronheadlilly

In the fog of moral confusion, in the grey of doubt and fear, when truth feels more like myth, assaulted by a pressing world with a million reasons not to believe, I believe. Faithfulness, truth. I hope in the promises … Continue reading →

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