imagination
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Playing with God
When I write poemsI play with God.We race our bikes on gravel roads,stop to grieve for flattened caterpillars,marvel at Queen Anne's Lace,curl back the corners of bursting milkweed pods,watch their thousand filaments float on to raise new families, to inspire new… Continue reading
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Let It Have Its Way
O, my God–loving and sustaining God–sometimes I feel as if my heart and head and soul will explode–so many ideas and insights and understandings and imaginings–all at once. What am I to do with this? How/when/where does it find expression?… Continue reading
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Break Through
Break through the limitsof sensibility, logic and reason.Stamp and jump until the floor gives way.Drop into the sweet chaos of irrationality. Here imagination reigns unrestrained.Poetry and passion collide and ricochet.Symbol and allegory lunge, leap and laugh.Creativity dances, glances, bounds and… Continue reading
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Ten Titles Missing Their Poems
No One Ever Knew The Density of Love Wanderlust The Cordovan Cocktail My Misspent Couth Eyes Haggard and Cavernous Umbilicus Tinsel Leasing a Heart The Exorcist's Widow Has anyone seen them? Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading