After Failure
The careful, unremitting work I did has not availed. I gave my best to one large task, And now I know I failed. Today I’ll do the little things, The things I can do best. I’ll do the little, easy things And give my heart a rest. A dozen little things, well done, Will lighten […]
The One-Talent Man
A trusting eager child, he was derided, Made shrinkingly aware of lack of worth When one he loved rejected work he prided Himself on, and he hid it in the earth. So later, entrusted with one precious thing, He his it lest he lost it, for he fearer. He bears his punishment; and time will […]
Mule Barn
The new mule barn was once a country church The congregation, prospering, sold for lumber And built a fine one. Now the red mules lurch And sway from side to side in rhythmic slumber In stalls constructed of converted pews With all the drowsy rectitude of deacons Who half awaken, now and then, to muse […]