Marie
Un parfum si exquis Elle tint dans la main, Ce parfum faisait Pendant les ans- Un sort d'heritage Pour une jeune sans richesse. Une annee de peine, Un moment qui reste. Voilà le Sauveur Dinant à table- Entre Marie Et son vase d'albâtre. << A…
...of my Existence.
I wish you wouldn't tease me so. It seems almost unfair. You take me by the hand, transported, And promptly leave me there. I've grown in you and changed, And expect an explanation Of what it is you mean to do. But you wilt my expectation.…
Shrine
If I am serving idols And my heart, unfaithful to you, Offers anything at all to them It's as though I never knew you. I've laid my life before them Sought their favors with my own; My heart, adulterated, Forgot what it had known. It has…
Amethyst part three
Amethyst Part Three Iscah did not know, as she huddled with her family in their tent, listening to the revelry taking place near the foot of the mountain, that Yahweh had seen everything. She imagined her sister's and mother's jewelry being melted down and made into…
Amethyst Part Two
Amethyst Part Two Reumah took to singing like one of the birds from Egypt's menagerie that had been set free. She sang as she cooked, she sang as she mended the tent, and she sang as she washed the clothing in the little stream that flowed near the…
Amethyst-Part One
Amethyst- by LaBruyere May 2008 Setting: South Sinai Peninsula, 1446 B.C. Characters, by order of appearance: Iscah Leah Samlah Carmi Adah Reumah Moses Three Youths Bezalel Part One Iscah took three more steps until she stood right next to the rock, and then sat herself upon it. All around…
April 30- I Will
If this is what you have for me, I'll take it and I'll run. But I won't let go till you've blessed me, Lord, And left my soul undone. If I have to fight you, And struggle until morn, It's…
April 29-To those who don't
What makes her laugh, what makes her smile When she's ready to depart? Perhaps she knows the simple truth That encourages her heart: She does not belong here anyway, And so she feels there is no more To be said. It's time to go away For…