Tag: poem
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Time Expired
beams of radiance heat shimmer rising softly a watch in the night On thoughts of baseball… there’s always tomorrow, except when there’s not. Then there’s hope for what’s to come. Rom 15.13.
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Sunrise
thick wet blanket covers darkness turned to blood rising poured out and empty the reference to the last verse comes from Isaiah 53, the firs two verses come from the image I took this morning of the sunrise.
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All i Want For My Birthday is an Iron Bowl Win
All i want for my birthday is an #IronBowl win. A reminder of a day that we can re-live again. All i want for my birthday is an #IronBowl win. A play, oh what an hour that once Gary gave spin. All i want for my birthday is an #IronBowl win. A “there goes Davis…”…
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Newtown
Our wounds come at first breath In the blood of a garden at rest Toil cursed upon our commute Commissioned to die in our youth Hope like a blanket will be At the coming He will set us free. There are virtually no words to describe the news today. Is this our culture, our time,…
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Malone Kaak Senior Photo Shoot for 2013
I’d like you to meet one of our local seniors, Malone Kaak, who came out to our farm a few weeks ago for his senior photos. As I mentioned on a previous senior photo shoot post I don’t normally do senior photos, but this was my other exception for the year. Malone was a great…
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Malone Kaak Senior Photo Shoot for 2013
I’d like you to meet one of our local seniors, Malone Kaak, who came out to our farm a few weeks ago for his senior photos. As I mentioned on a previous senior photo shoot post I don’t normally do senior photos, but this was my other exception for the year. Malone was a great…
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John Newton’s Poem The Kite
I came across this poem by John Newton in a book I was reading the other day and had to share it. John Newton is the pastor, write, and poet who’s more famous lyrical writing came when he wrote the hymn Amazing Grace. In the theme of sophistication through simplicity, this poem is amazing. Only…
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Ode To My Wife the Quilter :: Poem
You may or may not know, but my wife Deborah, has been quilting for over 25 years now. She use to teach people how to quilt all around the country, she invented and designed several new quilting products, and has completed countless projects, many of which she gave away. She doesn’t quilt much for herself…
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The Spring Equinox Today with Spring is Coming to Zion :: Poem
Today is the first day of Spring (the Spring Equinox)! For some reason, a day I look more forward to each year, but this year, I wanted to commemorate the day with a poem. I make no claims whatsoever to be any kind of a decent poet (see prior attempts), but I do make attempts…
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The Valley of Vision :: Poem
I took this photo above from a painting that one of the kids in Uganda painted at Bethany Village Orphanage, and it just reminded me of this poem written by the Puritans around the time of World War I (1918). I found this poem from a collection of files I put together several years ago.…
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Sunday with The World State by G K Chesterton :: Poem
I think it has literally taken me a few years to adjust to Sunday being a work day, and I have grown to absolutely love late Sunday afternoons after all the services and meetings are over. It’s one of those few times during the week I get (usually) a few quiet uninterrupted hours to spend…
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Imposition of Ashes Mixed with the Pouring Rain
The photo of the day today comes from my back yard, as it was being clobbered by wind and rain. This photo sort of summed up the day in some respects. We had two unexpected calls by two different doctors for Deborah, neither of which I was all that excited about, it was cold and…
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Ash Wednesday the Poem by T.S. Eliot
Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent is tomorrow and I came across this poem by T.S. Eliot called “Ash-Wednesday”, which is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his conversion to Anglicanism (or the Church of England) in 1927. The entire poem was a big long for one blog post so…
Scott Fillmer 