A Worm Wiggling on the Ground
Haiku about a sunbathing worm
After heavy rain
Worm wriggling from muddy ground
Sunbathing on dirt
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Margaret Minnicks
Margaret Minnicks has a bachelor's degree in English. She is an ordained minister with two master's degrees in theology and Christian education. She has been an online writer for over 15 years. Thanks for reading and sending TIPS her way.
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HER EVERY SIN
He didn’t even realize, as he tucked that wave behind her ear, that he was heaven-sent. Everything she had ever asked for was staring back at her in human form. He was every birthday wish, made of pink candles, feeling the hope in her breath as it brushed past their lips. He was a random thought she’d had on a Sunday, half asleep, wondering if she’d have to make coffee when he finally arrived, not just tea. He was the empty space on the right side of the bed, the side closest to the door. He carried that quiet, fatherly kind of protection, with a hand raised only ever as an offering to help her watch her step. He was built from all the love she had ever given to the wrong places. It flowed through him, pumped through his veins, generously poured out so she would never again feel as though she wasn’t enough. He was quietly kind and never wanted to stand in her spotlight. Every tear that had fallen from her face was sewn into his skin. He knew her heart, her hurt, her every sin. Made in the image of an angel, he must have been. He didn’t even realize it: he was everything she had ever yearned for, and more.
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I’ve had so many names in this life I lose track of which ones were ever really mine and which ones I wore because someone needed me to. Some were handed to me before I had words to refuse them, before I knew what they meant, before I knew I could say no. Most weren’t meant to hurt. That doesn’t mean they didn’t leave marks. Marks that told me who I belong to, who I am by way of who claims me, recognizes me in the good and bad, who walks beside me.
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