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Beauty for Ashes
Darkness in the form of pain
defined my broken world of
endless, mourning days
dry and empty nights
Gradually in that hostile dark
a still, soft light began to bloom
in the face of one woman
reborn in Christ, fearless, she
consumed the darkness and
desiccation with her faith
An unspeakable joy was born from
the ashes of my world
Robert Funderburk was born by coal oil lamplight in his home near Liberty, Mississippi, graduated from Louisiana State University in1965, and served as Staff Sargeant in the US Air Force Reserves from 1965 to 1971. His writing experience includes seventeen published novels, one a national bestseller; eighty-five poems and five short stories accepted by various literary journals; and one chapbook. He is a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee. Along with his wife, Barbara, Robert lives and writes from the peace of their home on fifty acres of wilderness in Olive Branch, Louisiana.
February 2025 issue
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