#john roedel

[mental-mona]

When I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, let me be water.

- John Roedel

[labelleizzy]

On days like today,

when my eyesight is failing

and my bones ache more than usual

I have to remember that

I am not my body

it is simply

the Airbnb that I am renting

my winter wind-whipped dry skin

and my Steve Martin hair

are just the package I was

vacuum sealed inside of

my love,

there is so much

more to us than our

neurons and nerves

we are timeless

tourists on a tour

straight into the mystical

we are

pieces of cosmic energy

caught inside this temporary jar

of humming organs and flowing veins

we are

miracle sparks that were launched

out of the First Fire eons ago who eventually were given starships of our own to command that were built out of muscle and membranes

these gangly skeletons

we are lugging around

are the jungle gym cradle

for our playful souls

but these physical forms

aren’t who we are

any more than the hull or the sail

we are steering

until someday

angels in sailor hats

come and decommission

our flesh and blood

do not fear that day

when we shed our skin

because

we are the energy

who existed long

before our freckles

started frecking

remember

you are the glimmering precious cargo

inside of this built-to-fail body

and someday

when you have to turn it all back in

to the eternal rental agency

you’ll finally get to stretch your celestial wings

and join the rest of us fireflies

out here at the edge of time

where the Great Artist is still painting worlds

for us to someday explore

you are the supernatural

miracle bouncing around

inside of it

my love,

you are the electricity

the bones were borrowing

(john roedel)

[senyoritarodriguez]

When I’m caught between a rock and hard place, let me be water. Let me be water. Let me be water.

- John Roedel -

[justadandak]

This year my family moved. The kind of move that doesn’t feel dramatic until you notice how often your body reaches for things that aren’t there anymore. Different grocery stores. Different roads. The quiet disorientation of standing in a room that hasn’t learned your style yet. Moves do that, I guess. They show you how much of your life is habit pretending to be home.

bye bye 2025 - by John Roedel - Around the Campfire

[parthenon56]

Image: Donegal, Ireland

“I was not born for these times. It's all too sharp, too loud, Too fast for me. I was made for an age of dirt roads, Soft light, quiet skies, And where kindness has the patience of trees”

John Roedel, comic, writer and poet , quote from Facebook

[askyea-poesy]

Whenever I feel helpless in this overwhelming world I become a helper oh, oh, my love on the days when it feels like I have no power I serve others you see, whenever I wash the world's feet my hands immediately stop shaking.

John Roedel

[justadandak]

when the world goes mad become wildly kind to everyone everyone everyone everyone my love, ~ you can’t control much but you control how you treat others in these breaking news heartbreaking times when nothing feels certain let your raw kindness be a certainty allow your compassion to become a North Star stamped up in the sky for others to follow back home ~ john roedel

when the world goes mad - by John Roedel

[masticadoresdeletraslatino]

Interview: The Transgressions of John Roedel by Nolcha Fox

John Roedel is a comic who unexpectedly became an Amazon best-selling poet/writer when he began to turn his faith crisis, depression, and struggles into poems that have been read all over the world. John has published five books and his work has been shared millions of times across social media and his fearless writing has attracted readers from all over the world. And he absolutely loves…

Interview: The Transgressions of John Roedel by Nolcha Fox