by ST I did not choose the easy road, Though I saw it from my own, But what I wanted– A full and happy life– The easy road could not but loan. I sometimes chose the heavier load, And often felt I bore it alone, But what I needed– Charactered strength– The heavier load gaveContinue reading “Once, Upon a Time, So I Considered”
Author Archives: Emerging Bird
A Mission
by ST I left your presence, Home, So short a time ago– O how could so much experience Be crammed in so short a space: A life within a life. I marvel as I look back– Am I much changed? The impressions are so deep, Will they be scars, or Wisdom’s wrinkles? And now IContinue reading “A Mission”
Jogging
by ST I didn’t run very fast– She began behind, but soon surpassed me. I set my pace, Struggling against the tightness, Uncomfortable with the effort. She was in better shape to begin; while I had put on weight. But I was out for my own good, And now I was here, I was goingContinue reading “Jogging”
“And All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience”
by ST My childhood days are remembered a little faintly. Both happy times and foolish ways– I’d not return To re-live or change– I look forward, Even if a bit dubiously. Then came the years Of deciding what to be: Sampling enough of both good and evil Which fruits I tasted, I grew to knowContinue reading ““And All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience””
The Coat of Arms
by Susan Ternyey, 1980s Far humbler than the poet whom I appeal As tutor, in aspiring to convey And ‘scribe in characters of the Ideal Those worthy merits, in this worldly fray, Which we would urge on any that we may– Most ‘specially our children and their own– That seem to us appropriate array ForContinue reading “The Coat of Arms”
Wherefore Didst Thou Doubt?
by ST Amidst the storm I am startled to see My Savior, my Lord, beckoning to me: “Come out of your boat, and walk on the sea.” Amazed, confused, but enthusiastically I climb o’er the rail and touch the sea. My Savior, my Lord, has faith in Me! A step, and two, eyes only forContinue reading “Wherefore Didst Thou Doubt?”
Trembling Faith or Fear
by ST Although I know That Thou art Good and Kind I know Also That I do not know Thy Mind. So when I fear, It’s not my faith that’s undermined, My fear is, then, That my suffering fits Thy Plan Divine.
A Journey and a Struggle
thoughts of Gen 31-32, by ST 1980s Taking a journey to the Promised Land: A fight, a flight, a struggle on every hand. Life’s former employ all left behind, Seeking now gods of a different kind. Though my past come to challenge, Search my integrity–Let God avenge The promise made with subtlety; This Stone witnessContinue reading “A Journey and a Struggle”
Seasons, Seasonings, Seasoned
by ST, revised May 2023 Seasons “He’s going through a stage,” is all that need be said, And so say they all Of all a child goes through: Innocence, importance, and impudence Are played and played again– By parts and turns–authority’s role Varies as protector, tyrant, friend. Seasonings Then learning, earning, and making, And stirringContinue reading “Seasons, Seasonings, Seasoned”
“It Never Fails!” and other like fables
by ST, 1987 “It never fails!” she says as she gives me a no-fail fudge recipe. And, sure enough (it never fails), it fails! As if to prove that we of limited skill in the culinary arts are, after all, only cracked pots in the kitchen. Are we to blame when every recipe for everyContinue reading ““It Never Fails!” and other like fables”
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