Telling the Truth

connecting the dots of my life

Category: Haiku/Poetry

God Bless You All – Howard Finster

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Click on painting
to see the following text in
Howard Finster’s own hand.
The painting is titled “God Bless You All.”

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Visions of Other Worlds

My troubles
came by
people
not animels Read the rest of this entry »

distant images

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distant images
beckon beyond vibrant hues
of giant blossoms

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Click on corridor photo to see distant image. Read the rest of this entry »

The Angels and the Tiger

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Here’s another Amy poem for children everywhere. Especially, but not only young children in unsafe situations. Amy Carmichael spent most of her life in South India living with and for young Indian children.

Most were girls; some were boys. Many were temple children, Read the rest of this entry »

stepping out

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hot mama
hot daddy
hot colors flow
like sherbet Read the rest of this entry »

native women

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native women
artisans of history
compose their lives

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large brown eye

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large brown eye keeps watch
through dew-laced grass-green cover
screening nearby nest

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Do you see the handy nest? Read the rest of this entry »

dreams drift

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dreams drift
abandoned
hopes die

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If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you’ll see our woman standing at the far end of the corridor, arms folded, Read the rest of this entry »

arms folded

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arms folded
woman deep in thought
ponders life

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“Gloriously wasteful, . . .”

Do you fall in love with gorgeous sunsets and starry skies? Here’s a sonnet from George MacDonald that talks about this and more. I’ll comment at the end. Read the rest of this entry »

Daydreaming

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Here’s a lovely Happy Weekend poem from Amy.
Written for “people like you and me.”

Daydreaming

Hurry scurry, worry flurry,
Such a fuss and such a hurry.
Down I slid by a private stair
To a room in a forest of maidenhair. Read the rest of this entry »