Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Pour

Pouring Liquid Gold, photo by The Puzzler

Pour

Soaked in
Love
Filled within
Then poured
Out again


© January 4, 2012, Robbie Pruitt


“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.” –Titus 3:4-7


This poem, Pour, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Nativity

Church of the Nativity Demo at 11th & Mt. Vernon, 
by Michael Bixler

Nativity

The Church
Has left
The building
Birthed from
Demolition
To Immanuel
No building
To contain
The Almighty
Omnipresent
To dwell

The building
Has left
The Church
Free from
Enclosure
God is with us
Spirit
In the hearts
Of humanity
Like Dove
Will perch


© August 1, 2013, Robbie Pruitt


This poem, Nativity, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. To see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check “Mr. Linky” for this week’s poems.


My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer” who took the photo above, Church of the Nativity Demo at 11th & Mt Vernon. Like much of his work, it captivated me and inspired the poem Nativity. Bixler has provoked me to poetry with Motel and Ghost Lake back in October of 2012, with his photo Late Autumn Epiphany in November, and with Homage back in December of 2012. I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here, or here.