To Haunt the Clever Sheer of Grace

By William Flewelling

Faces and actions of people and animals, the flair of nature, and the subtleties of interaction, the way life arrives for me to observe and live, to hear and sense, to engage, that is what spawns my poetry. Those poems selected and chosen from my past, with a few more contemporary in their lure to me and my pencil, are drawn together in this collection as a sampler of my engagement with life. I hope you find them engaging and inviting, that you may entertain the actions of the poem as it writes itself upon your mind, creating there your own experience of life, readying for the open engagement with what life directly brings to bear upon you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524610487

William Flewelling

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in central Illinois. Led by a request from Mildred Corwin of Manua OH when I arrived there in 1976, I long developed and led a series of bible studies there and in LaPorte IN and New Martinsville WV. These studies proved to be very feeding to me in my pastoral work and won a certain degree of following in my congregations. My first study was on 1 Peter, chosen because I knew almost nothing about the book. I now live quietly in retirement with my wife of 54 years, a pair of dogs and several cats.

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Contents

Foreword

1.   Prepared To Go Outside

2.   All For A Tin Of Tea

3.   After Late Realization

4.   The Ordinary

5.   Assured: I Hope

6.   Completing Communion

7.   As The Chill Catches Up With Me

8.   He Wasn’t There To Hear

9.   At Last The Dogs Attend

10.   Pas de Deux, It Seems

11.   Christmas Cows

12.   Unspoken Exchange

13.   On Hearing Of A Classmate’s Death: BHS 1963

14.   The Birds Are Singing Early

15.   Almost Controlling

16.   I’d Wondered Of The Moon

17.   By Lenten Organ Chorales

18.   Full Freshness Shown

19.   An Unexpected Gift

20.   The Young Girl Thrives

21.   A Gentle Hand Of Comforting

22.   Young And Delighting Mentor

23.   Along The Way

24.   As Implicating Joy

25.   Led Slowly Home

26.   In The Drizzle-Rain

27.   Aurora On The Cross

28.   From The Back Door Deck

29.   White Shamrocks On The Green

30.   Thought Interrupted

31.   Anti-Minutes Of A Lunch

32.   The Hawk Traverses My Path

33.   With Easy Interruption On The Way

34.   Low Fleeting Clouds

35.   Set Casually Together

36.   Assuredly Assured of Self

37.   Courtesy Of A Clearing Company

38.   Along the Roof Beam

39.   Two Angus Cows

40.   Circling Tight

41.   To Watch In Wonder Once Again

42.   A Tawny Stroll

43.   Anthony and Guinevere: Alert

44.   Returning To My Friends

45.   Privacy For Feeding

46.   Come To Attention

47.   Worn Yet

48.   From The Relay Of Greetings

49.   The Late Discovered Reminder

50.   Escaping No Smoking

51.   On The Garden’s Backward Side

52.   The Wages Of One Not Hired

53.   A Closing Disclosure

54.   Blackbirds In Pursuit

55.   A Fruitless Intermediary

56.   Dr. Barrett

57.   Half-Toothless Grin

58.   The Tire

59.   Intentional Refreshment

60.   A Question Overheard

61.   Into The Midst Of Things She Wills Her Way

62.   One Rising Moon

63.   Red Accent

64.   Night’s Distant Dogs

65.   Crow Activity

66.   ‘Brightness That Strikes The Eyes"

67.   ‘Doing It All Today’

68.   In Serving

69.   Blithe Urgency

70.   Handling Peaches

71.   Corrected A Second Time

72.   In February Warmth

73.   On Hands And Knees

74.   At Sermon Time

75.   Sunflowers Indoors

76.   Hearing The Frog Sounds

77.   Abuzz

78.   Awaiting A Proper Moment

79.   At Juliet’s Balcony

80.   Quite Conscious, After All

81.   Almost Permitted

82.   Notes On A Planning Session

83.   Mulled Presence

84.   With Random Concentration

85.   Celebrating Frogs

86.   The Only One Home

87.   Shine

88.   As They Accompany My Afternoon

89.   Unexpectedly Preempted

90.   Brief Interlude

91.   Delighting Together

92.   Routinely Exchanged

93.   With Twinkling Eyes

94.   Making

95.   Discovery

96.   A Room Prepared

97.   Just Said Hello

98.   Magician

99.   Lush Quiet Found

100.   A Twinkle And A Wink

101.   At Last It’s Felt

102.   A Voluntary Acts

103.   From The Photograph

104.   As The Kitten Lifts Her Plea

105.   The Light Beyond The Doorway

106.   Eventually, A Smile

107.   The Morning Goldfinch Flight

108.   After The Record

109.   A Name Recurs

110.   Blackbird Congress

111.   One Riveted Moment

112.   That Roadside Fare

113.   Morning

114.   Sentinels

115.   Moon New Tonight

116.   He Knows The Time

117.   Friendly Passing, At A Distance

118.   The Blessing Man

119.   Equilibrium: Before Disturbances

120.   Intent On Singularity

121.   At That Well Known Sound

122.   Crackers Again In Hand

123.   Among The Easy Greetings

124.   Overheard

125.   Her Arms Stretch, Hold His Arms

126.   Overtly Contained

127.