Another Porch ...A Poetry Blog

Today's prompt for poem-a-day from Robert Lee Brewer  offers endless options!! For today's prompt, pick an emotion,  make it the tit...

Today's prompt for poem-a-day from Robert Lee Brewer offers endless options!! For today's prompt, pick an emotion,  make it the titl...

Lam.3:31-33 NIV For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. 32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing...

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...

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 3 John 1:4 How often in my own parental joys and sorrows I thi...

  I took the above video yesterday morning! (I saw a flash of orange from the Baltimore Oriole-chorister) He sang and sang and sang!! It che...

A guttural *helpless, heart-cry best describes my prayers this morning for a world groaning in tribulation... For Afghanistan , Haiti , Som...

From The Dying Thief- Charles H. Spurgeon The fact is, there is nothing so good but men can pervert it into evil, if they have evil hearts: ...

PAD Challenge 21 : Here is Robert Lee Brewer's Prompt for Today For today's prompt, take the phrase "(blank) Me,"  replace...

  (my brother's grandson) In Memory of Cody Troy August 27, 2019-March 28,2021 Yet Hope Lives When God reaches down from Heaven For a ch...

No eloquent words shape this week's prayers, only tears. SO many hurts and needs of sickness and sorrow, broken relationships in this ol...

Happy 2nd Birthday, sweet grand-daughter! ...though without a doubt the celebration is bittersweet this year! This is not quite the poem I h...

.(here is the update mentioned this morning) Last night my nephew's 19 mo. old son went missing on their farm. His body was recovered to...

This week-end many will celebrate love on Valentine's Day. I am so thankful for all the faithful love in my life but this year I feel an...

 Over and over we are reminded through loss how much we ought to cherish what/who we have/love! Two weeks ago a friend celebrated t...