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  • Butterflies

    Hunting Butterflies Dreams

    Hunting Butterflies Dreams Hunting butterflies dreams and so much more beyond my imagining, I used to spend summer afternoons with my neighborhood friends. I was raised in the warm citrus valley called the “Inland Empire” of California. The little town had a fantastic family feel much like the one where I now live in the…

  • Flowers in Word Image Spirit - Emile Nolde Flowers in her hair

    Flowers Word Image Spirit

    Flowers Word Image Spirit Flowers Word Image Spirit – These are found throughout history and across our lives. Flowers are in words of poems.  They are in the image of countless paintings and photography. Our spirit is lifted as we ponder life in flowers. Take a look at the Flowers montage group.  It connects word, image, and…

  • Easter Poem by Christina Rossetti – “A Better Resurrection”

    I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb’d too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm’d with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.  …

  • Holy Saturday Poem by John Donne

    At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All whom the flood did, and fire shall, o’erthrow, All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain, and you whose eyes, Shall behold God, and…

  • Good Friday 2016 – New Poem

    Black nothing given everything taken.   Cross slicing hope grounding sorrow.   Blue afterglow of light harbinger of dawn.   “Choosing Blue” © Brian R. Paulson, March 25, 2016.