L. Roy Aiken
Feast!
Nothing could safeguard the hours
they were swallowed up by the days
the days swallowed up in weeks
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 23, 20233 min read
After the Big Holiday Dinner, the Old Man Explains How It All Came to Pass
A No-Thanks Thanksgiving Poem
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 20, 20221 min read
Winter Solstice Blues
Even on the coldest days
I’ll gladly lose some heat
for the privilege of leaning
out of my open window
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 5, 20221 min read
Psalm 004
All my life
I’ve been yearning
for a feeling
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L. Roy Aiken
Oct 18, 20221 min read
Psalm 003
“Why would I care
what the bacteria
in the wall think of me?”
was the most intelligent
question I’d heard posed
by a skeptic of God
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 28, 20222 min read
High Summer Morning
the child sees the feral cats
on my porch and her joy
defies common adult
emotional gravity:
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 8, 20221 min read
The Meaning of Life
And as I move about the house
and yard, sweeping dirt and
debris from the garage
I realize this is the meaning
of life right here
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L. Roy Aiken
Jun 13, 20221 min read
Psalm 002
It’s tragic how most can say Who
You are but fail to understand
What You are.
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L. Roy Aiken
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Psalm 001
...of the Psalms of L. Roy. I thought it would be as fun as it is edifying to try composing my own.
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L. Roy Aiken
Jul 5, 20212 min read
I Have Lived Long Enough
All the people I’d wanted to impress
with my poems and novels and stuff
left this Earth a long time ago.
I have no idea who my audience is.
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L. Roy Aiken
Dec 7, 20201 min read
October Evenings, 2020
The moon wastes no time
climbing the cold black bones of the pin oak I could have watched burn yellow forever.
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 30, 20201 min read
Fatherly Advice to My Old Fatherless Self
It's been years since you've suffered the need to tell people what you're up to.
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 29, 20201 min read
Clichés Exist for Reasons
Damn them all,
they weren’t wrong.
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L. Roy Aiken
Nov 22, 20201 min read
Sundown on the Last Saturday Before the Canceled Holidays, November 2020
The walls glow as my friends did when we were still friends and young.
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L. Roy Aiken
Sep 12, 20201 min read
In Search of the Loving God
I seek God all around me, not in the confines of a building with "saints."
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L. Roy Aiken
Aug 22, 20201 min read
Raise the Child, Save the Man
Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it. MARK 10:15 (NKJV)
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