tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29844085275217653162024-03-13T03:12:42.442-07:00This HouseLindsey Judgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13174345641135337952noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984408527521765316.post-55357275132511538742012-04-08T12:03:00.001-07:002012-04-08T12:16:05.092-07:00NaPoWriMo No 4<h2>
Strength From Overcast Skies </h2>
You were my rock,<br />
My trusted presence,<br />
Sitting at the edge of my world.<br />
<br />
Looking up at you,<br />
like a cathedral in my horizon,<br />
but close enough to touch,<br />
you held me captive.<br />
<br />
But you also blocked my view.<br />
<br />
Then, the clouds that came<br />
Stopped your shine<br />
And turned me to ice,<br />
An icy corpse, a shell of a person.<br />
<br />
But that chill<br />
forced me to grow,<br />
Grow so big,<br />
When I looked down<br />
I could see your cracks.<br />
<br />
My rock that once stood<br />
So large, now<br />
A grey pebble on the ground.<br />
<br />
I saw that the valley<br />
Below was deep.<br />
I didn't see it before.<br />
So I scooped up your tarnished<br />
Nothing<br />
And I threw you.Lindsey Judgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13174345641135337952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984408527521765316.post-69204459670426441662012-04-06T10:58:00.000-07:002012-04-06T10:58:00.550-07:00NaPoWriMo No 3<br />
<h2>
<b><span style="color: purple;">Breakfast, Over the Phone</span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: purple;">Silence, Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Is your indifference <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">To the purity of my thoughts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The naïveté of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Your unspoken words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Shattered the table between<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Screaming louder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Than that morning dove could<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Sing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">You scared her <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Silence, Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Scoffs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Passively<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Aggressively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Silence, Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Locks the window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Shut,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Stifling the air,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Turning it thick <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">With your worldly desires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">That fog <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Made you lose sight of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Silence, Love,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: purple;">Turned your warm eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Grey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">And mine haunted, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">As you coldly crept <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Into my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Until I knew exactly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">What you would <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Never say <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Forget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: purple;">Remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>Lindsey Judgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13174345641135337952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984408527521765316.post-60607730731750408242012-04-06T09:17:00.000-07:002012-04-06T09:18:01.062-07:00NaPoWriMo No 2<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="color: purple;">Irony from the Grave<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">My mother knows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Of the bird who sings <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">At dusk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Too quietly for most to hear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">But the lily listens,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Tilting its petals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">To face her ground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">My mother knows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Of the love and kindness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">People who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Gave themselves <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">To an unreceptive world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Their efforts were like that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Of a bee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Who stung once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">My mother knows <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The sound of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Better than she knew me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">While I know the laughter of day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Even when the birds stop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Singing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Insight doesn’t halt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">The moon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>Lindsey Judgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13174345641135337952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984408527521765316.post-74852265887743967312012-04-05T21:33:00.000-07:002012-04-05T21:33:37.583-07:00NaPoWriMo No 1<h2>
<span style="color: #660000;">Song of Mary Magdalene</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Who is this coming out of the wilderness--</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Wishing her body like a pillar of smoke?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Her creation a product of His kindness?</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #660000;">Who is this coming out of the wilderness--</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #660000;">Torn dress and bloody, He desires weakness,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #660000;">Defying her innocents, and the faith He broke.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #660000;">Who is this coming out of the wilderness--</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #660000;">Wishing her body like a pillar of smoke? </span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<b><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div>
<b><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div>
<span style="color: purple;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: purple;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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