Big Sky Buckeye

A writer's journey continues

About bigskybuckeye

Born in the Big Sky Country of Montana and now living in the Buckeye State of Ohio, Richard is the creative mind behind Big Sky Buckeye. Retired after 40 years of teaching, I enjoy writing, photography, traveling, and following a healthy lifestyle.

Destiny Unknown

Posted on April 16, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Everyday heroes share the spirit of many as Ukrainian citizens deal with the daily burden of war. Taken from recent news and photos, many images fill the following verses.

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Flood of refugees

Fleeing their homeland

Agony fills hearts

Life’s movements unplanned

Others staying behind

Daily grind consumes

Helping in war’s effort

Trauma always looms

Lives turned upside down

Seeing each child’s face

What future beholds?

Hope’s welcoming place

Every day breathes

Transforming each life

Anguish in real time

Never-ending strife

Air raid sirens blare

Witnessing war’s tides

Overwhelming scene

Stress never subsides

Women and children

Facing world alone

Husbands serve in war

Destiny unknown

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Curious Trivial Facts (4/16)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.

The fork was invented in Italy as a utensil with which to eat pasta. However, it was unilaterally dismissed by the Church, which frowned upon using anything not created by God to touch God’s bounty.

Prior to earning his master’s degree in experimental animation, “SpongeBob SquarePants” creator Stephen Hillenburg taught marine biology at the Orange County Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California.

These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).

Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Posted on April 16, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

American writer and novelist, Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), spent much of her early life in China as a missionary. She was widely heralded for her book, THE GOOD EARTH, which was published in 1931. She garnered the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and later the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.

Life’s Journey (Elfchen Series #96)

Posted on April 15, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Divine Solution

Life’s

Puzzle pieces

Scattered and missing

Grace recovers through love

Forgiveness

Divine Opportunity

Life’s

Lasting treasures

Waiting in Eternity

Heart focused on God

Transformation

Divine Nutrition

Life’s

Empty void

Spirit reaches within

Nourishing Bread of Life

Empowerment

This series of poems (written in the German-inspired style of Elfchen or Elevenie) shares a total of eleven words in each poem, with a sequence by line of one, two, three, four, and one words.

Billy Sunday Quote

Posted on April 15, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

From Matthew 4:1-4: “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to Him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.’ But He answered, ‘It is written, One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'”

Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was an American baseball player during the early years of professional baseball. Fortunately for believers and nonbelievers, Sunday later became one of the most influential evangelists in America during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Faux Prosperity

Posted on April 14, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Some people’s thinking

Prosperity’s wealth

Filled with gold’s treasures

Money brings good health

Overflowing grift

Falsehoods flooding minds

Filled with finances

Greed poisons and blinds

Almighty dollars

Ignoring true cost

Riches tumble down

Future fills with frost

Character flounders

Integrity fades

Growing evil breathes

Lifetime’s failing grade

Albert Camus Quotes

Posted on April 14, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Blessed dare the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Body of Christ

Posted on April 13, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

From the words of American pastor and Christian teacher, Charles Stanley: “The body of Christ–also know as the Church–is made up of all who believe in Jesus.”

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Body of Christ

Filled with believers

Worshipping Him

Humble receivers

Head of God’s church

Lord Jesus Christ reigns

Following Him

Grace eases our pains

Faith’s salvation

Active Christian life

Breathing Gospel

Peace lives without strife

Boldly walking

As Christ’s faithful feet

Upholding love

Divine message greets

Believers march

Trust guides life’s mandate

Spreading Good News

Grace equips our fate

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From Ephesians 4:15-16: “But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.”

Alexander Maclaren Quote

Posted on April 13, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

From John 14:27: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.”

Writer’s Vision (Haiku Series #173)

Posted on April 12, 2022 by bigskybuckeye

Keeping It Simple

World’s complexity

Simplicity seeks appeal—

Enters writer’s mind

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Responding with Love

Each crafted arrow

Filling this writer’s quiver—

Lasting prose awaits

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Crafting Melody’s Sonnet

Enlightened verses

Expressions of flowing waves—

Poet captures life

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Keeping It Simple

Responding with Love

Crafting Melody’s Sonnet

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