Tag Archives: Relationships

Ketubah

By punkmonksf | Published: June 18, 2010
Into this offering cup, I gather myself To rest in these, your venerated hands. O my daughter of the barley Harvest, here, on this threshing Floor, where these pearls between us Captured are — even here will I long For the shadows of your heart Stretched out between us my love. O river, O rock! [...]
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A Dream of Flying

By punkmonksf | Published: June 17, 2010
It’s always the same. I dream I’m trying to fly. All kids dream of flying. Except for me, I can never get fully off the ground. In my case, it was a magic carpet, long before I’d heard of Jinn, magic lamps and Alla’din. And I can’t take flight, here’s the catch. I have to [...]
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The Vow of Obedience

By punkmonksf | Published: May 9, 2010
It is important for us to realize in community that we are not held together by the truths and certainties that we possess, but rather we are bound by what we lack in ourselves and in our finite natures. We are bound together by our common struggle to find meaning and to seek Christ, not [...]
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Elegy to Dust and Dried Roses

By punkmonksf | Published: May 9, 2010
(dedicated to my mother) I never saw a rose before the age Of twelve in spite of all the rolling hills, The hopeless green of Pennsylvania farms. We left an emptiness behind to seek An antidote, safe haven from her pain; A marriage dead, the rattle dying still In silent scorn, betrayal, loneliness. Who knew [...]
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