Roses for Mothers Day, attempt at “lai” form poetry and linking to dVerse…
photo by lynn
velvet blooms blood rose
subtle scent wafts nose
petals
folds of ruffled rows
vivid color grows
sepals
thorns prick of sorrows
wilted tomorrows
medals
blood rose
16 May 2019 19 Comments
in lai Tags: beauty, blood, petals, rose, scent, sepals, sorrows
remembering him
03 Apr 2019 12 Comments
in cascade Tags: blood, breath, cross, death, firstborn, forsaken, son, tomb, wood
firstborn son cruelly beaten
pierced, hung on rough cross
dark blood trickles down wood
utterly forsaken by God
cries out in deep agony
firstborn son cruelly beaten
releases his final breath
pagan soldiers insure death
pierced, hung on rough cross
bruised body claimed, wrapped
gently laid in bare, stony tomb
dark blood trickles down wood
Requiem written in cascade form…linking with Amaya’s prompt at dVerse.
triduum
29 Mar 2018 11 Comments
in haiku series, senryu Tags: blood, body, cross, Jesus, passover, sacrifice
Linking to Frank Tassone’s haiku challenge…
maundy thursday meal
passover lamb serves supper
taste body and blood
good friday trial
soldiers nail God to wood beams
love’s great sacrifice
silent saturday
women weep while Jesus sleeps
he will rise again!
1510 fragment – Matthias Grunewald, Netherlands
INRI stems from the Latin phrase ‘Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum‘ meaning ‘Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews’. This was the notice Pontius Pilate nailed to the cross.
a wreath wraps around us
18 Dec 2017 3 Comments
in haiku Tags: blood, circle, evergreen, love, wreath
evergreen circle
as God’s everlasting love
tied with blood red bow
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
(God’s words in Jer. 31:3)
he shall have first place
26 Jun 2017 Leave a comment
in villanelle Tags: blood, Jesus Christ, love, reign, supreme
for us he shed his blood on wooden beam
he is the son of God and son of Man
in all things Jesus Christ will reign supreme
you may think such a statement is extreme
no more extreme than God’s great love for Man
for us he shed his blood on wooden beam
to honor him as Lord is my life’s theme
to share good news of God’s salvation plan
in all things Jesus Christ will reign supreme
our own attempt to reach God is pipe dream
no matter how we stretch, we never can
for us he shed his blood on wooden beam
will we admit our sin is real, obscene?
proud men hate truth so pierce God’s heart & hand
in all things Jesus Christ will reign supreme
he paid our ransom debt, souls to redeem
God saw our suff’ring, opened his arm span
for us he shed his blood on wooden beam
in all things Jesus Christ will reign supreme
Inspired by sermon on Colossians 1:15-23, written in villanelle form.
community unity meals
26 Apr 2017 12 Comments
in free verse Tags: blood, community, food, table, unity
Join the community of poets as Paul scribbles at dVerse Poets Pub!
connection by blood
relatives around a table
share past family history
gather for holiday food
connection like blood
friends around a table
share current life history
gather over favorite food
connection spite blood
neighbors around a table
share convergent history
gather with communal food
connection shed blood
nations around a table
share territorial history
gather to distribute food
connection in his blood
believers around the table
share biblical faith history
gather for spiritual food
Check out World Renew video of working with communities to end poverty:
silent sabbath
15 Apr 2017 2 Comments
in tanka Tags: blood, death, life, spices, tomb
laid down life for friends
blood congealed, stiff body wrapped
stone seals death in tomb
soldiers wipe spear and spikes clean
women grieve over spices
meditation
14 Apr 2017 6 Comments
in free verse Tags: blood, cross, hell, Jesus, rescuer, sinners
La via dolorosa
the way of suffering
tell me, Who would
choose to suffer?
Plenty of suffering
here to go around:
pain, grief
rejection, loneliness
bullying, abuse
derision, disease, death.
None of us immune
all of us sinners
except the immutable Son of man.
He chose the via dolorosa
only he could
only he would
bear all our misery and loss
on rough wooden beams of
a Roman cross:
ugly method of torture
cruel means of execution
for common criminals.
What crime deserved piercing?
His uncommon love for us
pierced his magnanimous heart
spilled gracious agape love
to wash our dirt clean away…
His via dolorosa is
our way home to the Father,
who turned away from
our hideous sins
borne on the bleeding back
of his beloved son.
Shadows fell on his
forsaken and disfigured form
when he descended into hell
Praise God, now we will never be forsaken
we need not smell the sulphur or feel the heat.
Let us kiss the nail printed feet
of our Redeemer – Rescuer
who walked the cobbled streets
of the via dolorosa uphill to Calvary.
national day of lament
22 Jan 2017 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: abortion, blood, innocent, life
legalized forty-four years
america’s future aborted
innocent blood on our hands
it’s mechanical/chemical rape
woman’s womb was sacred space
innocent blood on our hands
complications may occur
unplanned barrenhood results
innocent blood on our hands
abortionists get filthy rich
take advantage of desperate girls
innocent blood on our hands
would not dissect live puppies
yet traffic baby body parts
innocent blood on our hands
dark path of sexual revolution
strips all human lives of dignity
innocent blood on our hands
six million Jews in holocaust
almost sixty million unborn children
innocent blood on our hands
we are Nasrani
27 Oct 2015 2 Comments
in haibun Tags: blood, martyrs, religion
Sept. 23, 2015 – Festival of the Sacrifice: ISIS videotapes shootings of three men executed for crime of being Christians. The victims were part of a group of 250 Syrians abducted in February during Islamic State attacks on 35 villages along the Khabur River in Hasakah province. Their captors threaten same fate to rest of group if $12 million ransom is not paid. Negotiations “have been suspended due to the unbearable demands of the terror group,” says Osama Edward, director of Assyrian Human Rights Network (based in Stockholm, Sweden).*
blood of the martyrs
Christian families destitute
bullet to the head
false religion instills hate
come quickly, Lord Jesus, come!
*WORLD magazine, 10-31-15, p. 40, “Fallen and Forsaken” by Mindy Belz
deluge
12 Mar 2014 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: blood, deluge, flood, grace
Maybe God cries
big tears of sadness
when grey skies rain,
grieving over evil in
the world muddied by
our prideful rebellion.
His beloved children
deceived by the
enemy in snakeskin,
swiftly ushering in
disease and death
spoiling paradise,
stealing happiness.
God cries with us
in our suffering,
pain, regret, loss.
Our Father’s tears
mingle with our own
to bring release
and comfort for our
souls’ grey sorrows.
Yet weather’s tears
cannot clean
the dark stains
of hands and hearts
steeped in sin.
Only the pure blood
of His Son, our brother,
can wash all guilt away
in flood of grace.
a poem in my pocket 
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