The Lorraine

April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Mike Vrabel, a member of Sparta United Methodist Church, wrote this poem and gave me permission to post it on this website on April…

A Shadorma or Two

On Ash Wednesday of 2010, I started to write a Shadorma every day. I had just read of them and was fascinated by the form: six lines, 1st line—three syllables; 2nd line—five syllables; 3rd line—three syllables; 4th line—three syllables; 5th line—seven syllables; 6th line—five…

Walls or No Walls

(This poem was written at the time of the church trial of Beth Stroud, and is here now when we are on the brink of putting another woman, Amy DeLong, on trial for performing a wedding ceremony for two women and for announcing that…

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