by Deb Farris | Jun 29, 2018 | Musings, Poetry
I walk forward. I feel you behind me but do not turn to look back. I can sense your shadow. You are still my father, just as you were two years ago when I realized your footprints would no longer be seen on earth, or your shuffling heard. I move forward but admit that...
by Deb Farris | Jun 28, 2018 | Musings, Poetry
Wake up. Feast on your favorite breakfast like the robin. Like the rabbits, with their ears poking up from the grass playing mindlessly, can we keep a sense of fun? The city scape is behind me. But I will soon be walking into it. Rolling laps of sun-streaked water...
by Deb Farris | Jun 23, 2018 | Memoir, Musings, Poetry
I place my notebook down on the table, then pick it up again, to lay it back down. I walk away and walk back, passing it by only to return. The words inside are scrambled, my mind spins a yolk–an embryo of thoughts all stuck together. Then it finally occurs to...
by Deb Farris | Jun 7, 2018 | Musings, Poetry
I don’t think I am old yet. Maybe that’s because I don’t want to stop growing. I no longer hunger busyness. I have a taste for a quiet place, around me and in me. I thirst a quenchable thirst. I’m satisfied by soft unspoken Word that plays no tricks on my mind....
by Deb Farris | May 13, 2018 | Family, Musings, Poetry
Like the new moon your face shines unseen. Your past now hidden in clouds of recollections. But as the sun streams through your smile in my dreams, you shatter the stars and light hearts for all eternity. Photos of my late parents by Janet Lew Carr at Danceworks...
by Deb Farris | Mar 30, 2018 | Devotions, Poetry
Rise up…Beautiful One. See! The winter is past…the rains are almost over. Buds are appearing, the Season of Song has come. Rise up…my Beautiful One. We’ve seen the scourging, stripes and spearing. We wait in silence. Blood poured out, sacrifice...