Archive for November 2nd, 2006
Let Me Get Home Before Dark
“I fear the Dark Spectre may come too soon-
or do I mean, too late?
That I should end before I finish
Or finish, but not well.
That I should, stain your honor,
shame your Name, grieve your loving heart.
Few, they tell me, finish well…
Lord, let me get home before dark.”
Robert McQuilkin, 1981
Finishing Well, Poetry, Robert McQuilkin
Published by the tattooed poet on November 2nd, 2006 tagged Poetry | 1 Comment »
Language of the Heart
Living In Narrative
“Life is not a list of propositions, it is a series of dramatic scenes. As Eugene Peterson said, “We live in narrative, we live in story. Existence has a story shape to it. We have a beginning and an end, we have a plot, we have characters.” Story is the […]