Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley

The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Whoso believeth in me and is baptized shall be saved.

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  Buried under water for a moment of my life, a wholly new existence and enjoyment became rife. This simple cataclysm is available to all wh...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Be still and know that God is God.

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  Be still and know that God still reigns over mountain range and plains, controls the sky and vasty deep, and all His promises will keep. O...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

Today's timericks.

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  Biden asks for trillions more to keep folks from growing poor, and to spread the blest vaccine -- so I'll take a limousine to the near...

Postcards.

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  (dedicated to Nathan Draper) Does anyone mail postcards on this plant-based protein plane -- anymore? Or does the brain view scribbled not...

For the Lord God giveth light unto the understanding.

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  Shedding light where darkness reigns, breaking ignorance and chains; comprehending brightness shines from the Christ and his guidelines. S...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Acting no hypocrisy and no deception.

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  The heart that is hollow/can never much follow/the kind invitation of Christ/When motives are narrow/concerned with one's marrow/then ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Photo Essay: This week's postcards mailed to President Elect Joe Biden.

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Prose Poem: The Woman in the Roots

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  I saw the young woman in the roots of a large tropical tree during my last trip to  the Marmalade Isles. I fell in love with her. Naturall...

Today's timericks.

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  Whenever I make curry/I make it kinda hot/in fact it is so spicy/it often melts the pot/Mixed with rice and fish sauce/it will not harm yo...

Fools mock, but they shall mourn.

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  Fools mock, but they shall mourn when their pride is left forlorn. Built upon a rock secure, the godly know they shall endure -- though no...
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I am convinced that if God meant man to laugh, he would have made more Democrats.
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