Saturday Good Reads

It was an easy week to find good things to read online. Bridget Chumbley hosted the One Word Blog Carnival on compassion, and all of the linked posts are worth reading (a few are cited below). A lot of poetry seemed to break out this week, and I only included some of what I found.

Poetry

“Deprivation” by Brenda Porter at Poetry, Fiction and Stuff.

“Holy Lost” by John Blasé at Dirty Shame.

“Desire Unfulfilled” (flash fiction) by Leslie Moon at Moondustwriter.

“Hither,” “Unanswerable” and “Before Time” by Melissa at All the Words.

“The Gift” by Rob Kistner at Image & Verse.

“Reapers” by Jean Toomer at Eye of H.

“Date Nights Without Movies” by Fred Sprinkle at I Force It to Rhyme.

“Sandal-Walls” by Monica Sharman at Know-Love-Obey God.

“The Complexity of Compassion” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

“To our new democratic overlord” and “Taliessen on Salisbury Plain” by Justinian at Delight and Glory and Oddity and Light.

“Emptying of Emptiness” by Karen Eck at Phoenix-Karenee.

“Compassion” by Nancy Rosback at Poems and Prayers

“Age of Serenity” by Jonahh Oestreich at Jonahh’s Blackbox.

“Pretence” by Claire Burge.

“Heart Racing” by Kathleen Overby at Almost Paradisical.

Prose

“Going Batty” by Sandra Heska King at Beholding God.

“Sometimes It’s Just Plain Hard” by Denise Spencer at Internet Monk.

“God Goes Viral” by Mike Duran at deCompose.

“Change is Possible” and “Awkward Compassion” by Duane Scott.

“Courage Is Part of the Adventure” and “Adjusting to What Is” by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy.

“The Way We Were” by Madison Richards at The Master’s Artist.

“Compassion in the Cold” by Billy Coffey – and read it together with “Compassion for a Passion” by Kathy Richards. Also Billy’s “Stronger Than Chocolate.”

“45 Minutes – Going Off Script” and “Why Daddies Are Worth Remembering – Even I f You don’t Have One” by Bonnie Gray at Faith Barista.

“Wash” by Kelly Sauer at A Restless Heart.

“An Open Letter” by Kathy Richards.

“Hearing the Melody” by Andy Whitman at The Image Journal.

“Tommy Walnuts” by Greg Sullivan at Sippican Cottage.

Paintings and Photos

“Storm Break on the River” by Randall David Tipton.

“Hill and Bees” by Nancy Rosback.

“Mailbox Angst” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.

Photograph: Lamp by Nancy Rosback. Used with permission. (Nancy says the lamp in the photo belonged to her grandmother, and then her father. Nancy's child used it to go to sleep by as a baby.)