My Road—A Christian Journey Through The Lord of the Rings Today?
Poem—Rest
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Can words speak for a soul asleep?
Monsters convey the fears of day?
Nature’s glory proclaims joy without name?
An exhausted soul drags itself to a clearing place and stops.
No further thought compels action or attention.
Can Do No More.
The earth multitasks, spinning and revolving. Birds chatter and sing. Sunshine pours light and warmth from an open sky.
Conversations murmur. Laundry swishes amid suds, and dinner thaws on the counter.
But the soul is silent.
Asleep in dreamless rest.
Purpose laden with meaning lies not in doing. All The Time.
Being alive is poetry unto itself. A story’s breath. The quiet before the violin rises to meet the high note.
No prince to kiss the spirit from death to life.
No heroic clarion call echoing through the hills.
No deceptions worth believing.
For what comes next is not yours to say.
Empty and alone, quiet, and unmoving.
Death has no hold.
Banish fears in not-your-own-glory.
For today, you must rest.
Poetry is not dead, as long as hearts are alive.
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About the Author
As a teacher with a degree in Elementary Education who has taught in big cities and small towns, Ann Frailey has homeschooled all of her children. She manages her rural homestead with her younger kids and their numerous critters. She writes books and a Friday blog alternating between short stories, poetry, book excerpts, and My Road Goes Ever On series.
She earned a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing for Entertainment from Full Sail University.
In her spare time, she serves as an election judge and secretary/treasurer of her small town's cemetery.
To check out her stories, novels, inspirational books, and her film and tv scripts, visit https://akfrailey.com/
A. K. Frailey Books
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