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All My Stories


Surrender
Pit bulls Lick My sweating tracks In bloody greed. Above the gorge I sway on tiptoe-- An icicle...

cjoywarner
Apr 20
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Two Mites
I watched them enter lordly, prim. They stopped beside the offering bowl And slung their noisy pursefuls in. They have so...

cjoywarner
Apr 20
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Evening Echoes
Just-evening sun shouts at me eye-level across my loaded desk. Hidden birds giggle and caw from the live-oak limbs...

cjoywarner
Apr 13
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Lot
He picked the blessing green; A lot turned sour. "Green" for the best, He cast blind lots For Sodom's...

cjoywarner
Apr 13
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The Beam
To be forgiven at all Is to be forgiven much. Against Christ's lily purity Is every mote a beam-- A beam...

cjoywarner
Apr 13
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At Calvary's Cross
When all was dark and I was tired, Decision pressured me to cry; Tears drowned the pain inside And buried the reason why. Â Then came the...

cjoywarner
Mar 24
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Behold!
I stand at the door-- Will you open? I've been knocking through the night-- Listening, listening, On this side. ...

cjoywarner
Mar 24
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Morning Glories
Like little faces nodding smiles Of sunshine, love, and peace, My morning glories beckon me To take a garden...

cjoywarner
Mar 24
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Spring Must Bes
There must be sunlight in a land of Dreams and when the shadows fall, moonbeams. Â There must be flowers in a field of grain and pathways...

cjoywarner
Mar 23
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A Cloud of Witnesses
That one sweet Day of Rest when my mother and I explored  Her parents’ big heirloom Bible, We had no idea what we would find, Except...

cjoywarner
Mar 22
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