Author: ekoileman

Grace begins

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

grace begins with

sorrow, repent and turn away.

The Undeserved given gifts

received in pain and joy.

Pain at the separation,

     Joy at the renewal of connection

and relation.

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Grace begins with reaching out 

     hope for reaching back.

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Grace begins with joy and love, 

     with bowing and delight,

     with faith and hope and trembling,

     and in the deepest sight.

Grace begins with blood, 

     for I am dearly bought

turbulation

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

flow grates against the grain

bonds and connects break,

pulled, reforming, reaching,

SNAP–

broken–

moves away.

//

the self is shattered

old ideas crack

reveal child self in pain.

//

cracks, perturbed, reaching into

shards. pulled away.

what I thought was clear was a mirror

concealing a mask.

the mask I thought was flesh slips.

the knowledge of self distrubed.

//

swirling flow, life cintinues,

I want it all to stop-

to pick up the pieces,

examine each and understand

it’s purpose and placement in the whole

//

the pieces fly away in the wind.

a maelstrom- pulls at my

mask I didn’t know was a mask.

shocked to my core-

stillness is not an option.

Inaction isn’t an option-

I take it anyway.

Publish-life moving

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

publish broadcast, reaching out

to flow, read communicate-words are wind

wind that stays in place is writing.

don’t know where it comes from or where it goes,

but never still.

House breach the mass transition of stationary wind,

captured for millennia.

my words are my wind, air that moves.

writing captures my wind, cease the endless rustling,

transmit to others across space and time

(a day, a continent, a century, a galaxy)

the spread of captured wind, taken for the eyes and skin,

contained repeated, remembered.

Impacting and shaping the future and the new now.

to publish.

rule of undulation

by ekoileman, posted in poetry, writing

rule of undulation

the ups and downs independent of

circumstance emotions change.

You yet in a cycle

they come and they go

again then they return

we have our ups

we have our downs. We

have that consistency we

have that and it does not change.

Yet there is dynamism within that

slow and steady change, rapid

and torrential change