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Laura Kauffman

Laura Kauffman

author of Carolina Clay and Typeset Poetry

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POEM: 4pm/4am

Inspired by the 4am/4pm poems Rachel Welcher penned in her breathtaking collection, Two Funerals Then Easter.  In her Lenten book club, she challenged us to write our own version of these poems.  Here they are.   4PM At 4 pm, I ordered you and your school-day energy out of the door.

Posted onJune 4, 2019October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagschildren, kids, love, minecraft, mom, noise, parenting, poem, Poetry, poetrycommunity, school, sons3 Comments

POEM: Little Children

Your tears expose my weakness, not yours.

Posted onDecember 10, 2018October 15, 2019CategoriesPoetryTagschild, children, cry, growth, pain, Poetry, poetrycommunity, rain, tears, writingLeave a comment

About Laura

Laura Kauffman is a poet and writer living in the Loess Hills of Iowa.

She is the author of Carolina Clay: A Collection of Poems on Love and Loss.  Her writing and poems have been featured in Fathom Magazine, The Mudroom, Christians in Context, and The Core Omaha.

When she’s not writing, she can be found exploring the outdoors with her 15 chickens, 4 pets, 3 sons, and 1 husband, Chris.

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I may be working on Valentine’s Day, but at least I get to look at this kid while I do it. #actionshot #trumphands @ckauff21
For the lonely married, the happily married, the barely married. You are so loved. For the newly single, the still single, the happily single. You are so loved. For the widowed, the divorced, the refugee, the orphan, the child, the forgetten. You are so very loved. Happy Valentines Day. You are the beloved. #valentines #valentinesday #love #jesus
It's stupid cold outside, so it seemed like a good day for pictures with candles and poems about light. I was reading this interview that Einstein did with Life magazine in 1955. Mystery, he said, is all around us. The work of trying to comprehend just a tiny glimpse each day? "It is enough," he said. So on this ridiculously cold day, I'm looking for glimpses of mystery in the slant of sunlight, in fresh-scented candles, in over-sized sweaters, and in french-press coffee. It is enough. #poetry #poetrycommunity #cold #winter #mystery #enough #einstein #lifemagazine #christianpoetry
Because everyone loves a poem about dead chickens... 😂 #countrypoet #poetry #remembrance #attention #christianpoetry
It’s 40 degrees, so of course I’m daydreaming about my garden. Last year, things didn’t want to grow. I’m considering the soil - I never really have before. I just take it for granted. But what’s in that loess? What does it want to grow? When my grandmother died, I realized I had rarely considered my roots. What soil was I made from? What made up the generations, the women, who came before me? #christianpoetry #heritage #garden #soil #women #history #poetsofinstagram #poetry #poetrycommunity
I wanted to open my book with a quote. So of course I picked one by J.R.R. #favorite #tolkien #silmarillion #Poetry #quote #christianpoetry #christianwriters
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