Of Life To Come

First published in As Surely as the Sun.

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Extol the Lord’s striking wonders.

Behold exalted majesties.

Take measure of a blithe bluebird

lifted on currents by His breath.

Eye jaunty poppies in gay praise

as they dance with unfettered joy.

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Rejoice over His creations:

the first gasp of a newborn lamb,

a hatching chorus in new song,

the healing goodness of soft rains,

the sight of picturesque sunsets.

May all mankind be of good cheer.

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Early morning skies are laden

with His celestial glories.

Gulls pirouette in light-hearted

pavanes of praise and high above,

clouds cavort in playful frolic,

miracles of His handiwork.

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Come near, Oh Lord, my guiding light.

Share your vision of life to come.

Grant us wellsprings of joy from your

heart to rejoice in this new day.

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Fred’s first short story, The Wedding, was published in 2003 in Puckerbrush Review, a print publication edited by the New England Poet Laureate Constance Hunting. Other stories by Fred have appeared in these publications: The Houston Literary Review, The Front Porch Review, Skive Magazine (Australia), Corner Club Press, Writing Raw, Scarlett Rosebud, Troubadour 21, Dew On The Kutzu-a Southern Ezine, Static Movement, Eunoia Review (Singapore), Roar & Thunder (Australia), Kaleidoscope, Bartleby Snopes, The Cynic Online, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, Oxford Today, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Bewildering Stories, The Literary Yard (India), Fiction on the Web (UK) DuLugstSoSchon (Germany), Eskimo Pie, Deep South Review, Fabula Argentea, The Fable Online (UAE), Through The Gaps, The Linnet’s Wings (Ire.), Jellyfish Review (Indonesia), Donut Factory, Down In The Dirt, Potluck, Dime Show Review, TreeHouse Arts, AWS (Can), The Flash Fiction Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Charles Charter, Corvus Review, 50-Word Stories, Storgy, CommuterLit (Canada), The Wagon Magazine (India), Quail Bell Magazine, Literary Heist (Canada), Ariel Chart (Australia), New Reader Magazine ( NY, London, Hong Kong, The Philippines), CafeLit (UK), Paragraph Planet (UK), Furtive Dalliance, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Spillwords, Little Rose Magazine, The Creativity Webzine, The Literary Yard, Potato Soup Journal, The Ink Pantry (UK), Anti Heroin Chic, Academy of Heart and Mind, A Story in 100 Words, Six Sentences, Fine Lines, Page and Spine, FreedomFiction, Winamop, Writers Club, Grey Thoughts, Imspired, Storgy, Agape Review, Trouvaille Review, Poetic Sun, Sequoia Speaks, Discretionary Love, Soul-Lit, Littoral Press UK, The Bluebird Word, Westward Quarterly, As Surely as the Sun, and Literally Stories (UK).
 
 

All of Fred’s stories are edited by

Muffy Harman