Here’s one of my poems published in the Lutheran Digest. It reminds me of my young nephew Daniel, who now sits on his heavenly Father’s lap, and of Carl, Louise’s husband, who is greatly missed here on earth. I AM HOME Close my eyes and think of heaven. Enter in the pearly gates. Greet with […]
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Poems about Progression
The Sugar Mule magazine published a couple of my poems. Thought I’d add these to my blog. KATHRYN SPURGEON Progression Sunlight, clouded by dark sunglasses, pours over the green grass and dipping hillsides where cattle wade in muddy waters, old barns crumble and barbed wire fences line dirt roads. It shrinks, the pasture where brush is plowed under. Bulldozers […]
The Wonderland of Poets
The Phantom Island…be assured that such an island actually exists, and has from time to time been revealed to the gaze and trodden by the feet of favored mortals. Historians and philosophers may have their doubts, but its existence has been fully attested by that inspired race, the poets; who, being gifted with a kind […]
God’s love gushes like a fountain.
How can God love me this much when my past is flawed and dirty, when my faults bring filth and scorn? When my head hangs low in disgrace and my mind sees only thorns? Can the mountains cry “He’s bigger?” Can the mouse squeak, “Him I see?” Is He monstrous, huge or minuscule — or […]
Questful Youth
Christian Poetry by Kathryn Spurgeon