BrokenKestral
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Joined 12-16-19, id: 1135308, Profile Updated: 01-24-20
Author has written 27 stories for Religion, Life, Love, Haiku, and Fantasy.

Do you believe in stories?

The words that frame the images, that build, one sliding into another, another, from the first to the next to the last in an on-rolling wave of sound and truth and beauty?

Do you believe in stories?

Have they told you things you heard with your soul as well as your mind? Have you heard them? The whisper behind the words. Have you heard it?

Do you believe in stories?

Come tell a few to me. I will tell you parts of mine. Our own stories. When you tell a part to someone else, carried on words, your story intertwines with theirs.

Heaven and earth's greatest Teacher taught in stories.

I believe in stories.

"The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland." - Montgomery

"When I wrote my first books, my imagination did all the talking. But my writing has matured and my soul has something to say." - Martin

"Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Wallace

"Don't let fatigue make a coward out of you." - Prefontaine

"Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and cannot be put into words." - Hugo

"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - Chesterton

"Nowdays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Wilde

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African proverb

"Worry is a misuse of your imagination." - I'm afraid I don't know

"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself." - Agustine

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
"If you do one good deed, your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."
"I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun. Not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else." - Lewis

"Perfection as a sacrifice / for imperfection paid the price, / in payment for sin's debt sufficed / to Heaven paved the way." - Umbarger

"I felt it shelter to speak to you." - Dickinson

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Easter's Burdens reviews
A short poem after an overwhelmed Easter
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 52 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 4/20 - Complete
To Run reviews
A poem on fiction as an escape.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 121 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 8/3/2024
Love Your Enemies
I've met my enemies, and I love them - and I think it's killing me.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: T - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 403 - Published: 12/3/2023 - Complete
Dross and Gold
"Yet I sin" - "who will rescue me from this body of death?"
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Published: 5/27/2023 - Complete
The Sky On Fire
I fought for peace. They said I won.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 377 - Published: 4/28/2023 - Complete
Death and the Little People reviews
I am not very strong, but Death is coming for my general, and I do not want him to go.
Poetry: Fantasy - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 638 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/26/2023 - Complete
wordless
Language says so much - and yet never enough.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Published: 4/23/2023 - Complete
Haiku Practice
Three haikus written after reading the rules on a rainy morning.
Poetry: Haiku - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Published: 4/19/2023 - Complete
A Nightmare
Sometimes what frightens us most in our dreams isn't the monsters.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 130 - Published: 4/18/2023 - Complete
The Monster of Self-Worth reviews
What do you do when the monster wears your face and has all your habits?
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 226 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/18/2023 - Complete
For those going home from therapy
When there is only a few more days before the real world demands we deal with it in our broken state-sometimes trust is hard to come by.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 175 - Published: 12/15/2022 - Complete
Help reviews
A prayer from the helpless.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 44 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 11/10/2022 - Complete
Sunday Rest reviews
I was going to church and wasn't ready to worship.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 54 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8/14/2022 - Complete
Forgiveness reviews
Written in response to a challenge
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 100 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5/28/2022 - Complete
Psalm 90 Resaid reviews
A friend wanted to study Psalm 90; I put it in different language, as sometimes that helps me hear it better.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 379 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5/14/2022 - Complete
Easter Hope reviews
A prayer for hope as Easter approaches.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 42 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/10/2022 - Complete
Kintsugi reviews
"You see broken, I see mended" Matthew West
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 94 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 10/18/2021 - Complete
Psalm 4 Rewritten reviews
Psalm 4 hit very close to home yesterday, so I rewrote it.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 531 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10/3/2021 - Complete
Shadow of Death reviews
A prayer from depression.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K+ - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 345 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 4/9/2021 - Complete
The Monday After Easter
A Monday morning prayer
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 39 - Published: 4/9/2021 - Complete
Faith to Endure
Give faith to endure, till faith is made sight.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 50 - Published: 3/28/2021 - Complete
Pray to the Trinity
A short poetic prayer to the Trinity.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 46 - Published: 3/27/2021 - Complete
A Gumball Machine
Sometimes the echoes are the loudest things we hear.
Poetry: Love - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 192 - Published: 3/27/2021 - Complete
Cold Hearted reviews
Blood is meant to be warm, and so are hearts.
Poetry: Life - Rated: K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 2 - Words: 122 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/26/2021 - Complete
This is Mercy? reviews
When mercy means a broken life.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Supernatural/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 134 - Reviews: 1 - Favs: 1 - Published: 2/8/2020 - Complete
Stable Ground reviews
A poem on busy lives and weary ones.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 78 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1/24/2020 - Complete
No Other Gods
A poem based on the first command in Exodus 20.
Poetry: Religion - Rated: K - English - Poetry/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Published: 1/24/2020 - Complete