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Les Fleurs et les Abeilles l’espoir qui ne manque jamais À travers le passage d’automne Quand le froid qui grimpe attrape notre souffle Et le vent...
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The Human and the Ant — What is inspiring in us and them? [continuation of series] A friend had a vivid dream recently that unpacked the concept of the future for him (his eschatology). He...
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The Stillness of Hope 180630 Have I missed what yearns In the stillness of hope To find the love to cope With the doubt that learns The faith to be bold? Doesn’t desire awaken the happy sound Even...
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The Whisper in my Ear 170727 O heart don’t lead me astray See the trees that line the gardener’s way Their view is the sun and soil Along with our common toil O heart don’t lead...
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The Children’s Angels 160528 The angels as evening lulls close to the child’s embrace, their given grace of nightly rounds; of thoughts and dreams; the sounds of heaven’s streams. Their...
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Spades in the dirt 160527 The ebb and flow of workers Each with their plan and dream, Hope, and endeavors, Gives grasp to each spade in the dirt And hurries the expert In the city’s work and...
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The idea of embrace within a theology of the cross takes a pivotal turn in the 20th Century from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writings in prison. Bonhoeffer’s sacrifice at the hands of the Nazis, and of countless others...
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Answers 21st March 2016 At last the songs Righting the wrongs Anew array The night and day And fears that come To hope succumb “Welcome” I hear “Shed all your fear And take instead All that I...
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Broken Blame Be done with fuss For all the maimed That God’s not blamed Nor us Love is the price Of payment made By one who came Into the game With the faith that will suffice...
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Mercy Though love was shunned And grace outgunned, At Lights’ command The hearts of those Where mercy grows Must soon appear To cheer The poet’s demand. This face we’ll see In God’s decree More friend to...
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Spirit She graces loss Through the healing cross And draws the shunned To a world deafened By life’s excess Though they withdrew Betrayers all Their years in self to trawl She makes them bold As freed...
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Perpetrator Chastened origin On wounds of spin With wooing as pay For the sacred fray The doyens glanced As the undressed danced Their hope denied As hypocrisy thrived Two-faced rehash Become dabs in the gash While...
Loys de Fleuriot
Loys is French, and arrived in Africa just before his teens. He married Sharon, a South African Fine Arts Graduate, in 1978, and graduated with a finance degree in 1986...
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