The Stairway to Nowhere

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My friend Taylor Field, author of several books including Mercy Streets: Seeing Grace on the Streets of New York and Upside Down Devotion, is director of Graffiti Ministries on New York City’s Lower East Side. Graffiti offers a variety of services, both physical and spiritual, to many of the marginalized people in the city. They "invite the uninvited and serve the underserved." 

Taylor has a new project in progress on his blog The Stairway to Nowhere. He has been posting an original poem each day since October 1^st. I don’t know how long his daily poems will continue, but they are well worth checking out. Here are two of my favorites of his so far:

Origins

I get it.

Natural selection

algorithms with time

incidental connection

Still

when I hear thunder

I don’t see why

I wonder.


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Age

Now you are so positive

that what you say is true

now you are so confident

that here’s the thing to do.

There’s a hint of preachiness

you think your thoughts are pure

I liked you better certainly

the times you weren’t so sure.

Each day’s post has a photo to go with the poem to highlight the effect. I think you will find it visually evocative, spiritually nourishing, and intellectually stimulating.

So hop on over to Taylor Field’s blog at https://thestairwaytonowhere.wordpress.com.

It’s a coffee and freedom blog! Who can’t get on board with that kind of endeavor?

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