poet russ cavanagh

don't let your childhood define you. hard, i know. what wasn't your fault wasn't your fault. try to let it go. we're here to learn, to fail, to get up again. don't let your childhood define you. let Jesus lift your pain.     CC BY-ND 4.0 - Russell Cavanagh 2 Corinthians 5:17 - KJV

subdued ambience spatters my window under an overcast sky 21:25 and Brahms plays on a radio bought elsewhere by a much younger man now long lost to me those others met along the way who like me too took their solitude neat oh it's the wait that I can't stand   CC BY-ND 4.0 - Russell Cavanagh Romans 12:12 - KJV 

ink over paper dots on screens 0 in this w0rld is quite what it screams   CC BY-ND 4.0 - Russell Cavanagh John 17:15 - KJV

   A child when last we spoke, your middle age now nears still silent to me.   I think of you most days, particularly in this cold darkness. Poison certainly was her preferred choice. CC BY-ND 4.0 - Russell Cavanagh Romans 12:19 - KJV

One special day we stood together alone on Cromer Beach, where December sun bathed skin stung by wind from a familiar bloody sea. Side of fresh salmon - Kir Royale the apéritif - stylish in every respect - waiting back at the cottage to bless another occasion of friendship thicker than water. Yet in many years to follow, neither card nor present exchanged; for now beyond reach, I know not how to find you. (for Keith)       CC BY-ND 4.0 - Russell Cavanagh Psalm 34:18 - KJV

there's only one sun there's only one moon and under each everything was done by snakes busy busy with whispered spell so your eyes never open so your eyes only dream for in laced sleep you will not see never know what was taken was you       CC BY-ND 4.0 - Russell Cavanagh Revelation 12:9 - KJV