Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Poetry

  • 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…

  • Look further. Go farther.

    My older sister was brilliant, bossy, opinionated, obsessive about detail, and passionate about certain issues she had identified as crucial for maintaining civilization as we know it: good manners, attention to duty, unrelenting love for one’s children, clear and practical progressive principles. She cared nothing for religion, but followed politics passionately, applying steely logic to…