Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Dear Lucy, today marks nine months since you were suddenly called Home... May all of us who miss you so honour your memory by loving well th...

Because death forgets no one,  today's post is an earnest and urgent beckoning because of a reckoning none will escape... The Ninety and...

Yesterday I attended the funeral of my friend's father-in-law. He was 65. Then, I attended a visitation for another friend's son-in-...

It is a season of mourning in our family...  Now we bid fond earthly farewell to James's (my husband's) beloved 93 year old mother, ...

The verse below was the first verse to minister to me  in the wake of the news of my sister's passing last week (that-feels-like-so-much...

Job 14:1-2 Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleetin...

Yesterday my dad's oldest brother ( and Wayne's father ) was laid to rest. He is an uncle fondly remembered by his nieces and nephew...

Yesterday I attended the funeral of Wayne. Friends and family received words of comfort and encouragement as we reflected on a man, not perf...

Today's post is as bittersweet as they come... My cousin Wayne,  most recently mentioned in this post is free from suffering at last! Ga...

2 Chron.6:18 Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. When one lives, indifferent to and unaffected by such a God as des...