half truths

one part reflection / one part fiction

Shhhh

Sitting in silence as the red sky ripens
Nearby a woodpecker already labors
Shhhh
The time is not yet for infant eyes
Now the wrens join in song…

Jake in half truths

May 20, 2022

I turned 29 today.

It feels funny how the years already slip by now. From what I hear it only gets more strange and slippery as we go.

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Jake in half truths

Jan 30, 2021

My Pleasure

I always said I would never live far enough north that it required me to get up before the sun in order to scrape ice off my windshield…

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Jake in half truths

Aug 30, 2020

XX

Her home was the sea and
His love had never known the waves
Each day an encore performance
Of a long gone tragedy

Jake in half truths

Aug 28, 2020

XVIII

Inked lines
permanent
Grounded knees
repentant

Jake in half truths

Aug 27, 2020

XVI

My memoir will be filled
with laughing friends and freight trains
each known for crashing through still nights
and leaving faint memories in their wake

Jake in half truths

Aug 17, 2020

XV

I’ve visited terrible places before
hell holes down to the tiniest detail
I’ve been there, but to me
those places are foreign
Have you been to hell…

Jake in half truths

Aug 16, 2020

Songbird Shriek

Birdsong kills off dawn’s silent approach
but its beauty justifies the crime
in fact pleasant enough to be worth
suffering this…

Jake in half truths

Aug 5, 2020

XIII

Courage comes in crowds
This side of the city.
Are tiny bits truly enough
To feed the least of us?

Jake in half truths

Jul 21, 2020

XI

He was a child of the wildwood
And came from the Wise-men
Beneath those treetops colors spoke
And low hanging fog breathed heavy

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half truths

Meditations and observations at the crossroads of faith, life lessons, love, creativity and encouragement for when life gets rough. A journal from Jake Lira.

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