collected poems

a gathering of species

far and wise

in greening woods

'tween cement cracks

by candle light

on the graying day;

a searching as if

 Sherlock would magnify

some displaced gem

hiding beneath ones bed;

worlds of feelings

or heavily scaled

like rhinoceros hide;

bored minds

one's guarded soul

pleasures fresh

tickling a simple heart;

childhoods taken for granted

the flinging wide of gated doors;

what has been found

in the world of authored worlds?

surprises for ones self

tidbits of human grace

*Thoughts of Theodore L. Prescott:

  -...the grace that delights believer and unbeliever alike in beauty is indeed related to the beautiful Grace that is tasted in the mystery of Christ.

  -If the secularized aesthete wants to confuse art with religion, the Christian temptation turns in a different direction.  Even if we are wise enough to know that the domain of art cannot be taken by force, Christians are still tempted by the idea that art should be a colony in the kingdom of God.  In one sense this is a biblical vision, where God's sovereignty is indeed kingly, and everything is subject to his rule.  The problem has been in the application of this image to social organizations, where the church and theology - that old queen of the sciences - have the first and last words.  This model has produced works of great power and beauty, and some artists and thinkers have looked longingly back to the Middle Ages.  But historical distance obscures hard realities and lets us overlook the fact that we have very different ideas about art than medieval  culture did.  While we  may envy the integration of the arts into medieval daily life, I believe many of us would be reluctant to relinquish the freedom that is a hallmark of contemporary art. 

*All of our God-talk doesn't mean we are God-focused because God can still be used as a gun to keep people in line or to be eliminated.

*Death is natural.

*God is not an extra in a movie.  God is the movie and we're the screen upon which God is viewed.  God  must be seen in a new way and that way is love: love of self and love of the other as self.