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SPIRIT FIRE REVIEW

Celebrating God's Goodness through Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Visual Art, and Music

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A new journal. What’s so special about that? Well, this journal’s goal is to glorify God. Doubters welcome, seekers welcome, believers,...


Two Poems by Richard Manly Heiman
"Yew Tree" Photograph by Richard Heiman Old Growth There's a fog round the yew tree. As if the mists of Hag's Head could rise sudden from...


Three Poems by JD DeHart: "Words of My Mouth", "Multi", and "Builders"
Words of My Mouth I have been taught to let my words be acceptable, these arbitrary curlings of ink and sound, why would I shape them to...


A Memoir by Elizabeth Brooks: "An Empty Chair at the Table"
An Empty Chair at the Table Cosmopolitan Trinidad and Tobago, my homeland, had achieved a milestone and became an Independent nation....


Two Poems by Nicholas Froumis: "Not Yet" and "Shame"
Not Yet The words are spoken so easily to our children, another delayed promise or perhaps an attempt to buy time. But the requests only...


Three Poems by Donal Mahoney: "OMG", "Bell and Star" and "At Traffic Stops
OMG Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing except this blind lady I help across the...


Two Poems by Marcia (Durant) Conover: "My Prayer" and "Wings of an Angel"
My Prayer Today my mind was filled with sad layers As I listened to friends in need of some prayers Some I have known for quite a long...


A Poem by Sanjeev Sethi: "Persuasion"
PERSUASION Panglossian in piety will assuage by offering you its clutch of courage when tentacles of truth plague. That is a function of...


A Poem by Scott Thomas Outlar: "Expansive Salvation"
Expansive Salvation In the beginning… God’s tongue let loose with the word Love, and darkness gave way to Light as the shine of source...


A Testimony by Janine Pickett: " When God Sent His Butterflies"
When God Sent His Butterflies My family thought I was crazy for believing in a supernatural God who loves them. All they'd ever known was...


Two Poems by Tamsen Grace: "The Secret to My Strength"; The Gift of Love"
The Secret to My Strength You silenced my song, Tried to take away my voice. Like Delilah to Samson you wanted to discover the secret to...


A Poem by Donal Mahoney: "All Aboard"
All Aboard Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy who...


A Poem by Daginne Aignend: "Lost Soul"
Lost Soul The mirror of my soul Appears to be faint Hidden in shadows Coloured by bleak paint The shining light Of my spirit is...


A Poem by Lynda McKinney Lambert: "The 23rd Psalm for the Artist"
The 23rd Psalm for the Artist Lord, you are the mentor and patron who watches over me and gives me inspiration, guidance, and support as...


Visual Art by Duane Locke: "Sur-Objects"
My art works to Transcend “the objective” imposed by representation on things and open the attention, Often unrecognized to the emanation...


Poetry by Jonel Abellanosa: "Ode to the Holy Spirit"; "Mary of Bethany"
Ode to the Holy Spirit As devotee of the divine, I desire to have the Baptist’s eyes, belief a benevolent sky. The Christ rose from the...


A Call to Love: "Freedom Fighters"
Freedom Fighters We were kindred spirits, part of a group of freedom fighters, librarians who fought with integrity for our community. We...


A Poem by Ken Allan Dronsfield: "Bestowed Blessings in a Harvest Sonnet"
Bestowed Blessings in a Harvest Sonnet Pussy willows grow at the edge of the field cows grazing among brambles and berries. Catbirds cry...


Essay by Lynda McKinney Lambert: "Prologue: in which I Knit a Life Back Together"
Prologue: in which I Knit a Life Back Together It seems to me that I have always known the joy of making things with my hands. From my...


Poetry by Reanna Marchman: "Illuminate Part I: Light and Breath; Part II: Reflection"; and
ILLUMINATE Part I: Light and Breath Let’s all reach out touch a Non-loved face, light, the eye Breathe sky Love the dirty and raspy...
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