by Garris Elkins | Oct 31, 2010 | Poetry, Verse
I would not venture to guess where she ends and I begin. Of one flesh we have become both losing ourselves and finding ourselves in that oneness. Still a mystery how we cannot tell where each ends and each begins. Of oneness we...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 31, 2010 | Verse
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain in the song and in this life. Burning passions fired for Creator a rain not quenching but flooding a distant longing and its approaching rumble has engulfed me A burning man quenched.
by Garris Elkins | Oct 30, 2010 | Verse
We all like flowers bloom and unfold. From bud to blossom, new to full, from young to old. The summit of a life cycle no one knows the height, the apex of life’s arc from fullness to withered petal. But life is, from beginning to end, from tender shoot to...
by Garris Elkins | Oct 19, 2010 | Hope, Prayer, Verse, Vision.
To the despair in this dry place – listenListen to the approaching soundof a rising tide of answered prayerMounting upon a wave of his presencebreaking down upon this soul in droughtupon the despair in this dry place.