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Five Senses

2009-10-16T05:07:22-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 5, Words: 71, Reviews: 6 Updated: 10-16-09, Published: 10-16-09
Status: Complete

Experiencing God with every one of your senses... These haikus do not adhere to the 5-7-5 rule.

Fünf Sinne

2009-10-16T05:00:19-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Haiku
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Poetry
Chapters: 5, Words: 66, Reviews: 13 Updated: 10-16-09, Published: 10-16-09
Status: Complete

Gott mit allen fünf Sinnen erfahren... Die 5-7-5-Regel habe ich hier nicht beachtet.

All I have left

2008-11-18T23:46:43-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Hurt/Comfort/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 81, Reviews: 3 Updated: 11-18-08, Published: 11-18-08
Status: Complete

My tears belong to you.

Skylla und Charybdis

2006-11-26T02:39:29-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Life
Language: German, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 1 Updated: 11-26-06, Published: 11-26-06
Status: Complete

Zwischen Wut und Schuld ...

Broken

2006-06-03T00:41:14-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Supernatural
Chapters: 1, Words: 55, Reviews: 10 Updated: 6-3-06, Published: 6-3-06
Status: Complete

I'm broken.

Crossed Expectations

2006-06-03T00:40:21-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Haiku
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 13, Words: 323, Reviews: 53 Updated: 6-3-06, Published: 5-14-05
Status: Complete

A collection of haikus and tankas on spiritual themes.

Tuch aus Tränen

2006-05-22T01:52:27-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Haiku
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 3, Words: 55, Reviews: 8 Updated: 5-22-06, Published: 11-13-05
Status: Complete

Eine Sammlung von Haikus und Tankas mit spirituellen Themen.

Bleed On My Living Death

2006-04-07T00:07:48-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Horror
Chapters: 1, Words: 175, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-7-06, Published: 4-7-06
Status: Complete

Redemption.

A Cutter's Canticles

2006-02-26T02:41:37-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 102, Reviews: 6 Updated: 2-26-06, Published: 2-26-06
Status: Complete

Beauty for ashes. Blood for blades.

Wie die Ameise

2006-02-10T00:12:36-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 128, Reviews: 2 Updated: 2-10-06, Published: 2-10-06
Status: Complete

Trotz aller Hindernisse erreicht sie ihr Ziel ...

Manger

2005-12-22T04:27:48-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Drama/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 127, Reviews: 4 Updated: 12-22-05, Published: 11-23-05
Status: Complete

Christmas for the broken and lost.

Among the Tombs

2005-10-22T14:18:53-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-22-05, Published: 10-22-05
Status: Complete

“Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.” [Mark 5:5]

Shipwrecked

2005-07-18T07:38:51-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 76, Reviews: 8 Updated: 7-18-05, Published: 7-18-05
Status: Complete

Don't let me sink again!

Glaube Hoffnung Liebe

2005-05-14T01:05:28-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 3, Words: 112, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-14-05, Published: 5-14-05
Status: Complete

Drei Akrosticha. [Wer nicht weiß, was das ist, lese die Anfangsbuchstaben jeder Zeile von oben nach unten ...]

Daisy

2005-04-09T00:23:15-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 2, Words: 140, Reviews: 9 Updated: 4-9-05, Published: 4-9-05
Status: Complete

God's love and healing for a flower of His. Two acrostics.

Faith of a Child

2004-12-24T08:58:48-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 131, Reviews: 10 Updated: 12-24-04, Published: 12-24-04
Status: Complete

In church today the kids had a performance and I was deeply touched watching a little girl worship. I wish I still had faith like that …

Come

2004-12-21T08:25:40-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Song
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 174, Reviews: 8 Updated: 12-21-04, Published: 12-21-04
Status: Complete

“Come and breathe your life in me, for inside me there's only death.” My personal Christmas song, influenced by Evanescence I guess.

Ideas ante res

2004-11-14T01:42:17-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 256, Reviews: 10 Updated: 11-14-04, Published: 11-14-04
Status: Complete

“In the unseen I kneel by your bed” ... “Universalia sunt realia” The unseen things are reality ...

Sacred

2004-11-14T01:27:02-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 194, Reviews: 8 Updated: 11-14-04, Published: 11-14-04
Status: Complete

Love is waiting ...

Truth

2004-10-15T04:40:08-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 22, Reviews: 5 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

A short piece that came to me in a dream, complete with a melody. The whole song was longer, this is all I remember.

The Victim's Fault

2004-10-15T04:37:57-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 266, Reviews: 8 Updated: 10-15-04, Published: 10-15-04
Status: Complete

One of the lies people who have been abused fall prey to: that it was somehow their fault. The speaker in this poem is God, “the enemy” refers to Satan.

Blood Brother

2004-08-17T01:26:33-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 2, Words: 491, Reviews: 12 Updated: 8-17-04, Published: 8-11-04
Status: Complete

Why Jesus is my blood brother ... [Chapter 2 is a testimony that explains the poem in depth.]

Our Secret

2004-08-13T01:50:09-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 114, Reviews: 6 Updated: 8-13-04, Published: 8-13-04
Status: Complete

Hurt exchanged for hope, death exchanged for love ... our secret – it has changed my life.

Blutsbruder

2004-08-08T11:11:47-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 144, Reviews: 3 Updated: 8-8-04, Published: 8-8-04
Status: Complete

Kann ich nicht zusammenfassen, man muss es halt einfach lesen.

Speak

2004-07-28T02:36:41-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 158, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-28-04, Published: 7-28-04
Status: Complete

Lord, You alone can speak life into death. – What went through my mind when I read the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead.

The Unseen Clothed in Words of Flesh

2004-07-28T01:52:07-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 83, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-28-04, Published: 7-28-04
Status: Complete

This compares receiving God's love, receiving Christ as your Saviour to the sexual act. Might seem daring or irreverent to some, but if you think about it you might see the parallels ...

Stigmatized

2004-07-27T01:18:21-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-27-04, Published: 7-27-04
Status: Complete

Ten years ago, in my 'mystic phase', I read a book about stigmatization, i.e. people who receive the wounds of Christ. This poem is the result of my fascination with that, an attempt to see from the perspective of a stigmatized person and make sense of it

Then

2004-07-24T02:02:14-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: General
Chapters: 1, Words: 32, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-24-04, Published: 7-24-04
Status: Complete

What will heaven be like?

Xmess?

2004-07-23T04:26:47-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 6 Updated: 7-23-04, Published: 7-23-04
Status: Complete

What has become of Christmas?

Kyrie eleison

2004-07-21T01:48:04-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Angst/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 63, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-21-04, Published: 7-21-04
Status: Complete

Tear me out of this nightmare – come and rape me with your peace.

The Pull of the Sea

2004-07-18T03:18:28-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 69, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-18-04, Published: 7-18-04
Status: Complete

Fear and fascination ... the sea outside and the sea inside of me ...

The Highest Accolade

2004-07-18T03:14:35-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 61, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-18-04, Published: 7-18-04
Status: Complete

Do you ever feel rejected and neglected by those you try to show love to? Jesus feels it all the time. As we are learning to love unconditionally, sharing in His pain can be the highest honour ... and yet the greatest agony.

The Knight

2004-07-11T11:47:44-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Adventure/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 139, Reviews: 4 Updated: 7-11-04, Published: 7-11-04
Status: Complete

There is only one way to win the battle ...

Inadequacy

2004-07-09T08:14:30-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 2, Words: 111, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-9-04, Published: 7-9-04
Status: Complete

As I strive to portray the beauty of nature with my insufficient words and images, so nature strives to portray the beauty of God ... and we always fall short of the original ... [I think the revised version, ch. 2, is better than the first.]

Your Song, Teresa

2004-07-09T01:02:13-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 127, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-9-04, Published: 7-9-04
Status: Complete

Goldred glare of autumn leaves ... Bernini's statue of the mystic Teresa of Avila ... a longing to burn with passion ...

The Star Seeker

2004-07-06T10:19:12-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 3 Updated: 7-6-04, Published: 7-6-04
Status: Complete

Yearning for God ... fanned into flame by a dream where I met Jesus face to face.

To Depression

2004-07-03T02:17:40-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-3-04, Published: 7-3-04
Status: Complete

Kind of a negative ode or something like that. Don't know what to say about this one – you just have to read it. Another old one by the way.

Air Mail

2004-07-03T02:15:32-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 2, Words: 98, Reviews: 1 Updated: 7-3-04, Published: 7-3-04
Status: Complete

Have you ever found it frustrating that God is so invisible and impalpable, and often so silent as well? Ever been longing for some kind of touch from Him?

Song of Paul

2004-07-03T00:52:18-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Song
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 116, Reviews: 2 Updated: 7-3-04, Published: 7-3-04
Status: Complete

Paul the Apostle. His life story. But not only his ...

Recovery

2004-06-30T06:50:39-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 164, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-30-04, Published: 6-30-04
Status: Complete

My heart, unhealed by place and time – I send it on a journey ...

Open Arms

2004-06-29T11:36:59-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 142, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-29-04, Published: 6-29-04
Status: Complete

God's solace in the midst of heartbreak. Written when a relationship had broken apart after two years together.

The Adulteress

2004-06-27T01:39:28-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Drama/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 244, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-27-04, Published: 6-27-04
Status: Complete

It's about spiritual adultery ...

The Heart of Man

2004-06-26T00:46:58-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 177, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-26-04, Published: 6-26-04
Status: Complete

Someone once said that there was a vacuum in our hearts, destined to hold infinity, and nothing else could satisfy the yearning that drives us around on the quest for something to fill that emptiness ...

Then and Now

2004-06-26T00:45:49-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 100, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-26-04, Published: 6-26-04
Status: Complete

Exchanging one kind of love for another. They need not be mutually exclusive, in this case they were.

Chivalry

2004-06-25T13:15:07-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Song
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 181, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-25-04, Published: 6-25-04
Status: Complete

All my life I've dreamed of knights in shining armour ... What is real chivalry? A song written years ago.

Love Letters

2004-06-25T13:10:04-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Nature
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-25-04, Published: 6-25-04
Status: Complete

Aren't they hidden everywhere in creation – love letters from our Creator?

Eucharist

2004-06-25T11:32:43-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 119, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-25-04, Published: 6-25-04
Status: Complete

Revelations during a morning service ...

A Prayer

2004-06-19T05:31:05-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 45, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-19-04, Published: 6-19-04
Status: Complete

Very inventive title, but that describes it best. An acrostic poem. [If you don't know what that is, look at the first letter of each line ...]

The Morning Sun

2004-06-19T05:23:44-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 42, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-19-04, Published: 6-19-04
Status: Complete

A very old poem of mine, written about 13 years ago. It sounds childlike, but this might be done on intention ... Remember William Blake's “Songs of Innocence” – and you'll certainly find enough “songs of experience” among my poetry as well.

Im Schatten Deiner Flügel

2004-06-17T11:15:26-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 108, Reviews: 1 Updated: 6-17-04, Published: 6-17-04
Status: Complete

Eine Übersetzung meines Gedichtes “In the Shadow of Your Wings”. Ich finde Übersetzungen immer schlechter als das Original ... Ach ja, und bei anderen Formatierungsmöglichkeiten als FP sie bietet, hat das Gedicht wirklich die Form einer Taube.

In the Shadow of Your Wings

2004-06-17T11:12:07-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 124, Reviews: 5 Updated: 6-17-04, Published: 6-17-04
Status: Complete

The Holy Spirit touches in ways so different from what we expect or imagine ... A shape poem – and with decent formatting it does actually look like a dove.

Christ Crucified

2004-06-15T01:12:24-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Tragedy/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-15-04, Published: 6-15-04
Status: Complete

The wounds that hurt the most ...

Essential

2004-06-15T01:07:23-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: General
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Poetry/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 85, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-15-04, Published: 6-15-04
Status: Complete

Actually, there's only one thing that is really essential to my poetry ...

Love Petals in the Wind

2004-06-12T03:19:34-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Love
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 174, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-12-04, Published: 6-12-04
Status: Complete

How God longs to enfold us in His love. An outpouring of His tenderness written for and addressed to my best friend.

Bird of Prayer

2004-06-12T02:58:11-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 192, Reviews: 4 Updated: 6-12-04, Published: 6-12-04
Status: Complete

When you know your friend is suffering somewhere out of reach, possibly hurting themselves, and all you can do is pray.

My Dream Man

2004-06-12T02:22:47-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 101, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-12-04, Published: 6-12-04
Status: Complete

An acrostic. [If you're not sure what that is, have a look at the first letter of each line.]

Tree

2004-06-09T08:04:24-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 162, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-9-04, Published: 6-9-04
Status: Complete

Ok people, this is supposed to be a shape poem. On my typewriter, or on my computer with Courier fonts, it is a perfect tree, as you might guess from the stem where all words have four letters etc. Here, thanks to FP formatting ...

AD 30

2004-06-04T10:34:21-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 173, Reviews: 2 Updated: 6-4-04, Published: 6-4-04
Status: Complete

Hätte ich im Jahre 30 leben wollen? Jesus leibhaftig begegnen? Wie wäre es gewesen?

Lebensbund

2004-06-01T10:35:35-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 93, Reviews: 3 Updated: 6-1-04, Published: 6-1-04
Status: Complete

Der wichtigste Bund, den ich in meinem Leben geschlossen habe.

Unclutch

2004-05-30T02:11:18-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-30-04, Published: 5-30-04
Status: Complete

Surrendering the greatest wish of my life into God's hands. This is harder than giving up my life. Yet it must be, for whatever I take into my own hands, my weakness only spoils and breaks.

A Better Place

2004-05-30T02:06:09-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Friendship
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 327, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-30-04, Published: 5-30-04
Status: Complete

I would give, endure, be willing to suffer everything to see my best friend accept Jesus as her Saviour, to be together with her forever in Heaven. [For those who have read my Candle poem: THIS is my greatest wish.]

Candle

2004-05-26T13:53:15-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Life
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 193, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-26-04, Published: 5-26-04
Status: Complete

I am aflame with one desire, one wish, for whose fulfilment I would give, I would suffer everything. A shape poem.

Watershed

2004-05-23T02:21:56-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 169, Reviews: 5 Updated: 5-23-04, Published: 5-23-04
Status: Complete

About the moment when, after a severe crisis of faith, I made the decision to follow Christ, to stake my all on Him, no matter what suffering and sacrifice this might entail.

Godspel

2004-05-20T03:49:54-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 278, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-20-04, Published: 5-20-04
Status: Complete

Anglo Saxon for “good news”. This was written for my English professor when he was suffering from severe depression. For all who are depressed it's not the depression that ultimately counts or defines who you are ...

Ein Wort von Dir

2004-05-07T10:57:53-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: German, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 157, Reviews: 1 Updated: 5-7-04, Published: 5-7-04
Status: Complete

‚Das geknickte Rohr wird Er nicht zerbrechen.’ Die verletzte Blume wird Er nicht zermalmt werden lassen. Tautropfen des Erbarmens fallen auf unsere Qual.

One Word

2004-05-07T10:55:03-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 246, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-7-04, Published: 5-7-04
Status: Complete

‘The bruised reed He will not break.’ The bruised flower he will not allow to be broken. Dewdrops of compassion fall on our anguish.

Poiema

2004-05-07T10:20:02-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Romance/Poetry
Chapters: 1, Words: 125, Reviews: 4 Updated: 5-7-04, Published: 5-7-04
Status: Complete

Another sonnet. Poiema is the Greek word for both creation, workmanship and poem. Each one of us is God’s unique poem.

Home

2004-05-07T10:16:28-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Angst/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 107, Reviews: 2 Updated: 5-7-04, Published: 5-7-04
Status: Complete

A sonnet. After the most discouraging day of failure, there are open Arms to receive us, there is a home of welcome …

In Your Hands

2004-05-05T01:17:07-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Angst/Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 372, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-5-04, Published: 5-5-04
Status: Complete

Sometimes we seem to experience God as hard, even hostile, allowing us to be exposed to suffering almost too heavy to bear. I wrote this during a period of extreme insomnia, but have been able to relate to the feelings again over the past weeks ...

Birthday

2004-05-02T02:23:15-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 296, Reviews: 3 Updated: 5-2-04, Published: 5-2-04
Status: Complete

A kind of parable on salvation.

Golden Eyes

2004-04-23T03:02:53-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: T
Genres: Spiritual/Drama
Chapters: 1, Words: 155, Reviews: 5 Updated: 4-23-04, Published: 4-23-04
Status: Complete

A villanelle inspired by Mel Gibson's “Passion of the Christ”.

As the Deer

2004-04-20T08:47:40-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Romance
Chapters: 1, Words: 106, Reviews: 3 Updated: 4-20-04, Published: 4-20-04
Status: Complete

“... pants for streams of water” [Ps. 42:1]. Longing for a touch from God. I wrote this in my mystic phase, so I guess it's influenced by mystic literature.

If

2004-04-12T14:24:44-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 164, Reviews: 4 Updated: 4-12-04, Published: 4-12-04
Status: Complete

Trying to trust God's sovereign plan in the midst of failure and selfreproach.

Follow Me

2004-04-12T13:45:07-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K+
Genres: Spiritual/Angst
Chapters: 1, Words: 77, Reviews: 9 Updated: 4-12-04, Published: 4-12-04
Status: Complete

In the furnace of pain, in the crucible of agony, Jesus has been there before me.

Paradox

2004-04-11T11:27:28-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 105, Reviews: 6 Updated: 4-11-04, Published: 4-11-04
Status: Complete

God is closer than a lover, yet further than the stars. The paradox of His impalpable presence.

I Need You

2004-04-11T02:37:46-08:00

Author: Edraith
Category: Religion
Language: English, Fiction Rated: K
Genres: Spiritual
Chapters: 1, Words: 95, Reviews: 11 Updated: 4-11-04, Published: 4-11-04
Status: Complete

A prayer. What am I without His transforming touch?