easter – innocence abroad

after the end

By: littlepeace April 7, 2023June 23, 2023

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it is finished. what’s
the use of words now, Jesus?
silently, tears fall.

at dawn

By: littlepeace April 17, 2022

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at dawn death rolled back

easter monday

By: littlepeace April 5, 2021April 9, 2021

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in the park
the japanese magnolia is shedding
its petals

easter sunday

By: littlepeace April 4, 2021April 9, 2021

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two syllables turn despair back to delight

holy saturday

By: littlepeace April 3, 2021

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we planted the peas today
rolled their plump green bodies
into the black bacterial dust
gardeners call inoculant
and then tucked them one by one
under the soil

good friday

By: littlepeace April 2, 2021

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today the warmth returned
and the blond-haired boys were
running wild through beds
of brittle hydrangea
and barren rose canes
when the littlest
still unsteady on his feet
caught his teddybear bib on a thorn

Jesus at 33

By: littlepeace March 28, 2021

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This year my half birthday falls on Good Friday; I will be halfway through my 33rd year. I’ve thought a lot about Jesus over these past six months, wondering what human life was like for Him, wondering whether He started counting down the days to the cross, knowing full well what was coming.