Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Literature

  • I’m Nobody! Who are you?

    sparkPhoto by JR Korpa on Unsplash Are you — Nobody — too? My dear colleagues, fellow writers and readers and spiritual seekers and satirists, the Rev Dr Sparky is having an identity crisis. When a reader recently asked me straight up who I was, it took me aback, though not unpleasantly. I deflected his inquiry with the first lines of…

  • Write, Pray, Love

    With apologies to John Keats (and Elizabeth Gilbert) It appears that writers cannot help thinking about writing. I suppose it’s analogous to sculptors thinking about carving marble, or musicians thinking about making melodies. But with writers, it’s amusing because we are thinking about words with, of course, words. It reminds me of television commercials advertising…

  • Ozone

    reluctant poetry Photo by Andrew Seaman on Unsplash Children run before the wind,bright of face and light of limb,taunting, never looking back,snubbing clouds and thunder black. And I have heard their wildish criesunderneath the soon-stormed skies. Do they fathom, as they go, the danger? Yes. They know. They know. Image by VIktor Forgacs on Unsplash © M.…

  • I have no milk

    Image by London Wood Co on Unsplash I have no milk to give the world;I have no blood or tears.I have no sweat to prove my work,my willingness to please; too long I toiled and strove and dreamedand no cathedrals rose. So what remains when I am pressed?Not riches; hardly those.I spent it all, held nothing…