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SPIRIT FIRE REVIEW
Celebrating God's Goodness through Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Visual Art, and Music
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A Poem by Lucia Walton Robinson: "Unexpected Jesus"
Unexpected Jesus It’s Quiet Day in Lent, a time of meditation on texts our priest reads every hour. Sun slanting through windows breathes...
A Poem by Veronica Michalowski: "Bonnie 5-29-2017"
BONNIE You begin like the rest of us an egg, a sperm join in the womb soft, safe. Cells duplicate each hour of the day differentiate into...
A Poem by Ruth C. Rehberg: "Supply the Need"
SUPPLY THE NEED The value of quiet, and a quiet place, where the body and depleted soul can droop in privacy; free of stressed...
A Poem by Edilson A. Ferreira: "The Missed Deadline"
The Missed Deadline The magazine my wife reads has launched, by the Mother’s Month, a writing contest. A married woman should report...
A Poem by Eduardo Escalante: "An instance of myself"
An instance of myself In a corner of the house, a book containing a fragment of Dante addressed to the universe, the questions he asked...
Three Poems by Mary Missouri: "O My Heavenly Father", "I'll Rise Up Again",
O My Heavenly Father O my Heavenly Father When You repeat Your Word to me once – It’s necessary. When You quote it twice – I should take...
A Poem by Renee’ Drummond-Brown: "Thank You Father!"
THANK YOU FATHER! “For God so loved the world, That he gave his only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, But...
Three Poems by Neil Leadbeater: "Water Boatmen", "Welches Dam in Six Lines", &qu
Water Boatmen walk on water. Do not waver like St. Peter. Have no boat to keep in sight but just keep putting one thin thread in front of...
Two Poems by Bruce Owens: "I Came into the Forest" and "Untitled"
Visual art provided by © Mary Clark I Came into the Forest ~From his new book, Across the Light I came into the forest believing all the...
A Poem by Elizabeth Brooks: "Your Reflection"
Your Reflection You love to talk to me in the mirror when I'm putting on my make-up a brilliant piece would come to me a thought or...
A Poem by Sanjeev Sethi: "Biog"
Biog Intertextuality of our ideas meet on a spotless page to indite a collaborative effort of strange rhythms and sudden refrains. Images...
Two Poems by Romaine Washington: "Life and Death Speaks" and "On Fire"
Life and Death my tongue murdered a reputation today. slithered from behind my white teeth trampled her life like a withered leaf on the...
Three Poems by Bobbi Sinha-Morey: "The Golden Light", "In the Quiet Hours", and
The Golden Light I hold the day in my hands, a captive in the golden light while all around me an autumn sky shakes itself loose; a drift...
Two Poems by JD DeHart: "Promise" and "Rock"
Promise I can’t promise you that where you go will be easy that there will be a comfortable chair, kind people, or a system that works...
A Painting and a Poem by Twila Jackson
Blessed Giggles float in the breeze warm sunshine kids running free it's summertime Jumping on the trampoline making mud stew ...
Three Haiku Poems by Martina Gallegos
When I watch the fires And the destruction around I’m glad I’m still here. *** Sitting home alone I feel so much love for God I feel like...
A Poem by Mary Missouri: "The Answers"
The Answers When I received the message that she had passed away, A sudden drift of sadness filled my soul With extreme grief, regret and...
A Poem by Edilson Ferreira: "A Matter of Color"
A Matter Of Color I am proud of my generation. I came from a past that must only be seen in its black and white. Current bright colors...
Two Poems by Linda Imbler: "Wings" and "A Proper Life"
Wings As the beating of the wings of birds my mother’s fluttering eyelashes seen with my infant eyes as I studied the face of the first...
A Poem by Tom Sheehan: "Star Roots, Field Work"
Star Roots, Field Work Deep in the August field, I loll with mice and deer and the jawboned lightning playing wild war games all across a...
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