Promise Of Life

Promise of life

Hallowed father’s heavens pure grace

Promise of life

Kingdoms compassion heals my strife

Forever you took my disgrace

Love consumed was carved in your face

Promise of life

(Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name – Matthew 6v9).

The balm of encouragement

Filled with compassion

The balm of encouragement

Within the eternal agenda.

In your still small voice

Quiet words in the time of need

Allows my heart to remain soft.

(but exhort one another daily – Hebrews 3:13)

Awesome Tree

In you I find

Love and kindness

My mind in grace

Mercy placed

Encased in such selfless love.

Hope at the cross

Grasp of loss past

From dross set free

Awesome tree now

Set me on the path to your great love.

(But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared – Titus 3:4)

Heart

Scarlet candles, going nowhere

Hidden chambers, forlorn angels,

After midnight secret despair

Scarlet candles.

Tears of passion through life’s trials.

For spent pleasures never compare,

Where hope shines bright, through pure vials,

Loves desire, each beat aware,

Beautiful grace, tender ripples,

Divine tremor each vein prepare

Scarlet candles.

(Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow – Isaiah 1:18)

A Roundel Written for Poets United – The Heart

Steel

Hot reinforced steel

Shines stainless on your spent sun

Heat scorches the heart.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds – 2 Corinthians 10:4)

Possession - Sedoka

In a net of stars

A place of light and darkness

Rest in a moment of prayer

The struggle for peace

Felt inside with each heart beat

Life at last released in love.

(It shall be, in regard to their inheritance, that I am their inheritance. You shall give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession. – Ezekiel 44:28)

Complete Union - Sedoka

Every vein in me

Affirms with recognition

Recreate you deep inside

This worn crinkled mask

Curtains of pleasure and pain

Life in complete union

(As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him – Colossians 2:6)

Every Morning - Sedoka

Sweet soft intrusions

Lengthening shadows in light

As rains scarf burdens the air

I lie listening

Awake as faint tears drizzle

Alive to the wings of dawn.

(Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. – Lamentations 3:22-23)