this splendid day – a simple prayer
his feet cracked, red
and worn
from the long, lonely walk
into this life…
may he be warm
may he be safe
may he be held
A Joyful Circle – the Final Lineage Poem
I wouldn’t have missed a minute of it. And I pray that I will have many more to experience. Little boy, I weep for joy at the prospect of meeting you!
A Joyous Day – Gift of a New Life (8th Lineage Poem)
I’ve born witness now to the birth and growth of two sons and a granddaughter. This is the great mystery and the gift of lineage.
Shadow People – When the Lineage Merges and Generations Fade
for a downstream lineage to manifest requires an injection – a partner, a husband, a wife to be inserted into this stream that it might flow onward
This Father’s Imperfect Love – Sixth Lineage Poem
This Father’s Imperfect Love – Sixth Lineage Poem. Writing an honest poem is a profoundly private act. Making the decision to share that poem publicly is anything but. This is especially true if one is writing “about” a friend or family member who’s still alive to read it (bearing in mind that all we can … Read more
The Gift of An Exquisite Love – the Fifth Lineage Poem
The Gift of an Exquisite Love – Fifth Lineage Poem. We were eighteen years old, in our freshman year of college in a small town in Michigan. I’d borrowed the money from my girlfriend (a long story that) to take her out
A Mother’s Love, a Son’s Regrets – Fourth of the Lineage Poems
But she was also the quieter, smaller one of the two. I always had the sense that she chose to hold herself close, always to defer.
Welcomed by the Land – A Father Returns Home
redwing blackbirds
flash like fire in the sun, the Olds
sailing and sailing over waves of blacktop
On the Way to Heaven, 2nd Lineage Poem: Over Ohio
my mother called on Friday
to let me know his time was near
that I needed to come now.