I Refuse to Choose
Which Holocaust to Believe.
They are All Sacred
Category: Spiritual
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As Some Days Wind Down All That’s Left is Looking For God in the Shadows
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Grief Unpacked Its Bags,
A Sudden and Unwanted Guest
With No Plans to LeaveLoss on Every Shelf
Sorrow in Every Drawer
Pain Beneath the BedWe Could Not Quite Breathe
Wondering if That Moment
Might Not Ever EndBut Time Does Still Pass
And Grief Turned Towards Us With
All Its Open HeartAnd We Also Found
Among the Sorrow and Loss
A Shining HonorThe Consolations
Of Shared Memories, the Breath
Of Persistent LoveSo It Turns Out That
This Life is not Perfect and
Grief is not a GuestBut Our Souls do Rise
To Every Occasion and
Our Hearts Will Reach OutAnd We Will Carry
Honor, Memory, and Love
As We Find Our Way -
It’s the Kind of Day
To Pray For Small Changes, to
Not be Moved Too Much -
In Memoriam, Joe DiJulio
He Has Gone Ahead
But You Must Tarry Here for
Some Little LongerBetween Now and Then
On That Long Bridge Between Loss
And RecoveryA Heavy Heart is
Still a Sacred Vessel Filled
With Enduring Love -
Snow Falls Like Dreaming
Talking to Myself, Believing
Not a Single Word
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Lt. Col. Paul J. Finken and Family
Thankful For Soldiers
And All Who Do Their Duty
Uniformed Or Not.
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Rough Cutting Art Mats
The Knife’s Rasping Call Scores My
Heart Like Monks Chanting
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Before or Beyond
Random Measure or Words, Your
Blue-Green Eyes Caught Mine
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Earlie Cat Asleep
On my legs as I’m reading,
A New Year’s blessing.
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Evolved Religion,
Hail Mary Full of… Mitzvahs,
Koans, Adhans, and… peace -
Red Buddha dances
Level gaze, silver tipped tail
And that slight, sweet grin
A Year in Haiku 