Two Poems for You

It was an honor today to have two of my poems published on The Field Guide Poetry Magazine in their newest release September 2024 Issue VII.

Read them here.

And if you have some time, browse my Substack essays at A Curious Light. Currently twenty-four essays and a few poems to sweeten your day.

Blessings,

Henry

As a Writer

As a writer I often begin at the moment I fell in love with Jesus.

I begin there because it is the beginning of things for me, the beginning of everything good and true. It is the root of my honest and real self, set out on a journey of forever coming to know The One Who Made Me more intimately. But it is not like that for everyone.

So, as I write, I try to remember that time, I reimagine that moment and see myself facing a crossroads, to go down the dark path or one much brighter and full of hope. In my novels and some of my short stories (yet to be published), some of my characters choose the dark path. In my writings you meet some of these and you are left with an aimlessness, a restlessness, as souls adrift on a hopeless sea of want. It is there I explore the darker passages of the heart and the corrupt intentions of broken man. Yet the light overcomes the darkness. It always does.

Thank you for coming along on my journey as a writer. I continue my work on novels, short stories, and poetry, and submit regularly to those that publish such things.

My essays are published twice monthly on my Substack A Curious Light, and distributed into your email as text and audio, as well as a podcast at A Curious Light Podcast. Subscribe free or paid. I would love to see you there among my subscribers.

The journey continues.

Blessing all,

Henry

Headphones and Ear Buds

As you may have noticed with my Maundy Thursday and Easter posts, I have begun to introduce some audio into my posts (as when I read a poem) along with the readable text. I hope you enjoy these.

Over on my Substack essays A Curious Light, I have begun to do the same thing. Each new post will include an audio reading of the piece. The audio is attached to the normal Substack essay with the audio available at the beginning. If you are a subscriber, you will notice this even in the email you receive as my work is published. You can listen right from your email, though I encourage you to go to my Substack, browse around, and leave a comment or subscribe if you like.

If you are more of a podcast mind frame and enjoy listening to things while walking the dog or driving to work or whatever, I have also added a podcast to my Substack entitled A Curious Light Podcast. Each Substack posting will be converted to audio for the convenience of my reader/listeners. New releases will always include audio. I will slowly make my way through my previous essays, though that will take some time, so I ask for your patience. You will also find the podcasts on Apple Podcast and Spotify with a delay of perhaps a day or so.

Bless you all.

Henry

I read my Maundy Thursday poem

On this holy day Maundy Thursday, I read for you one of my poems.

Thank you for listening and reading this poem.

You may enjoy my Substack essays entitled A Curious Light. Please give them a taste, it is free, and consider becoming a regular reader/subscriber. Feel free to browse all my essays. If you signup today, my essay The Babbler Among the Wise Guys will conveniently arrive in your mailbox 1 April 2024. I look forward to seeing you among my subscribers.

Henry

What Can We Learn from a Child?

If you are intrigued by this, then you may enjoy my Substack essays entitled A Curious Light. Please give them a taste, it is free, and consider becoming a regular reader/subscriber. Feel free to browse all my essays. If you signup today, my essay The Incredible Magnificent Wonder of Children will conveniently arrive in your mailbox 15 March 2024. I look forward to seeing you among my subscribers.

Henry

The Solitary Walk

The Solitary Walk

On a solitary walk you are never alone
for you are there
and all the you that ever were,
walking into another you
fresh made of the day’s own flight.

It matters not where you go, 
this you now coming down the road
this you only now known to you,
with eyes aglimmer to behold
such infinite treasure in clear light.

A radiance wonderful and much sweeter
than any you that ever was,
this fleeting glimpse of heaven to amaze,
vivid colors dapple painted in wild display,
your new eyes seeing another you

than ever you would have known before.

Hope you like this little poem and my watercolor rendering of a nearby park.

You may enjoy my Substack essays entitled A Curious Light. Please give them a taste, it is free, and consider becoming a regular reader/subscriber. Feel free to browse all my essays. If you signup today, my essay God of the Mashup will conveniently arrive in your mailbox 1 March 2024. I look forward to seeing you among my subscribers.

Henry

To Know God

I pull the following from my personal journal 2 February 2024.

To know God. This drives my whole being, to let nothing sully my view, my understanding of the unknowable knowable God who made the whole world and all that is, the origin of being itself, to stand before him or fall as may be the truest place before him. Oh, that he would reveal himself beyond the actions of a day and take me into his chambers, and that I may learn of him for to know him is life itself.

Life itself. The settled place where the world’s distraction has been fully diminished in God’s manifold radiance, where I begin, just begin, to savor his perfection, where the ugliness of so many things is clearly dross, and beauty is seen full face.

Yes, I want to know God.

If these thoughts appeal to you, then you may enjoy my Substack essays entitled A Curious Light. Please give them a taste, it is free, and consider becoming a regular reader/subscriber. Feel free to browse all my essays. If you signup today, my essay God of the Mashup will conveniently arrive in your mailbox 1 March 2024. I look forward to seeing you among my subscribers.

Henry