This Man had moved her heart in such a way she spent the tears she shed to wash His feet. I haven’t known a more sincere display of love before or since, nor more replete.
An alabaster jar filled with pure nard, its price, perhaps in wages numbered years. This girl whose reputation had been marred anointed Jesus’ feet, ignoring sneers.
This typically was used for entombment. In just six days, she witnessed Jesus’ death. Now, we can’t know if that was her intent, but know God preordained His final breath.
Her tender, humble love for Him moves me. And what a brave and brimming heart had she.
The nation I call home seems to be in an uphill battle to love all who disagree, politically. An underlying prattle rumbling fiercely, rattling as intensely as a slithering serpent that can’t help but speak its small mind, as it seeks to find petty points that straddle your truth and strangle your certainty: callously, maliciously, never-so- gently.
__________________________________________ This was my first stab at a brand new poem form, created by Candace Kubinec (Rhymes with Bug). She titled the form Waltmarie, named for Buffalo poet Walter Wojtanik, and me. The honor of this is more thrilling than I can express!
The Waltmarie is a 10-line form of any subject. The even-numbered lines are 2 syllables, and must form their own poem when read separately. The odd-numbered lines are longer, with no syllable count restrictions. That’s it! This new form is loads of fun, but is also quite challenging.
Here is Candace’s new form, with her excellent examples: Waltmarie Poetic Form – rhymeswithbug. Check out other poems in her blog while you are there. She is a talented poet!
Also, Robert Lee Brewer, poetry editor of the Writer’s Digest, highlighted Candace’s new form for his Poetic Form Friday feature on February 12: Waltmarie: Poetic Forms – Writer’s Digest .
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