by Garris Elkins | Nov 22, 2019 | Poetry, Verse
Nets of promise broken contents falling into the hands of God, caught never lost, held secure for another time.
by Garris Elkins | Nov 20, 2019 | Poetry, Verse
This week, I raked summer shade into piles, heaps of leaves assembled, the closure of a season. This week, two died younger than me, a friend of a friend another, the father of my daughter’s friend. Perhaps, this is aging, dropping people like leaves raked into piles...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 27, 2019 | Poetry, Verse
Unexpected heroes, emerging. Those given up on by the masses, proven in moments reserved for others, the presumed. Unexpected heroes stepping into destinies not imagined. This is the work of God.
by Garris Elkins | Oct 14, 2019 | Family, Future, Gifts, Poetry, Relationships, Thankfulness, Verse, Vision.
My grandfather riding home in a horse-drawn buggy one sunny afternoon when, as a young boy, saw a man swinging from makeshift tree gallows in the fall of 1889. My father, born at night in a sod house in ‘08 on the Oklahoma plains west of Guymon. ...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 4, 2019 | Poetry, Verse
Anger rising, creating edges, sharp edges of opinion always cutting, flashing out against opposing thought. Our voices becoming angry scissors cutting each other. Why so angry? Violent words, a bloody dialogue falling, dripping red ink...
by Garris Elkins | Sep 27, 2019 | Poetry, Verse
Somewhere in the journey we come to realize we were being led to a place called Quiet Confidence. Arriving there removes our need to grasp, to be anxious, to suffer worry, about our future, about our present, about eternity, about...
