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* 30 Short Poems To Resurrection
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How awesome How sublime That out of muck and mud and slime God makes
lemons God makes limes.
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Oh Julie .. God's sun is shining She is grapevining
and the grove tree now she's liming
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Out of the pain of hell so low..
was born of goodbye the sweetest hello
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the bee the purple blooms did rape .. and now there
are sweet violet grapes
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Jesus said 'greater power shall I give to you'.... the power to be resurrecters.....
only confining thoughts can limit our actions
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a fallen petal of a purple rose fell onto the clover... I thought until I spied
it was a butterfly.. who unfolded her wings and flew up high
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Glass shatters.. neath sunfire.. each shard reflecting his orb entire
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The Great Lord can behind him twirl... vast universe' gyrating
swirl... that his rebellious insurection
.... become his glorious resurrection
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No lid for the cups of sunlemony buttercups..
they just infold to escape night cold..
but in the morn... once again unrolled...
once again their cheery chalices of gold do dewy dawn hold
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One upright responsible pier pillar after another yields in the night to the
hegemony of the flowing tide.
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Those who took opposition roles...
were midwives of her strengthened soul
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The sun arises and rouses the rose. In raspberries,
His arisen rays are rose.
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A wee teardrop reflects a star. The tears dry.. remain the stars.
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Meet the sea the icebergs melted
.. and now reflect the sunrise molten
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Every dawn a straight rainbow of promise is on the horizon
...heralding each heartsun's rising.
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As resoldered metal is stronger than when first forged,
so the resurrected are paradoxically more perfect than
the Godcreated original
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The soul's essence is ever in God's presence, and unharmed by the
fires of creation or the ashes of cremation.
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He was so loved by all creatures that when it rained
a cloud served as his umbrella.
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Filling every inch of the line of floodcracked cement
is a thread of velvetjade moss
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In the empty chalice of the rivercarved grand canyon
dawn has drawn with gold pink orange light crayons.
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Candle flame fear not results if you ignite
the snuffed candle's reborn light.
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As a clock with no hands can register time as the sun
plays across its face, so Spirit needs no body in order
to manifest its power.
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The apple tree's each barren branch.. burst to
wands of blooming blanch
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At the base of the birdfeeding pole, a perfect circle frames
it... the lace trace of birdprints, as they ate the
seeds which had a precipitous fall
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God the Divine Genie is waiting in the bottles of all hearts
to answer wishes.
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On Ararat rests the ark. A rainbow is born in the dark.
Out of silence bursts the joyful song of the lark.
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Night swallows
the swallows' trails
and swallowtails.
Dawnfire
resurrects them entire.
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The Japanese beetle sews
eyelets in the rose.
Sweet wee weevils turn
lilacs to lilace.
JESUS CONVICTED OF A FELONY
The "known Communist"
and the known monarchist
in the family of Christ
have in union kissed.
In Love of Christ
has melted away
the fist
of the pacifist.
In the holiness
of Christ
the psychiatrist
has abandoned
trysts.
Love
the alchemist
makes wished for
forms
out of mist.
ABBA
Barabbas, Scabbard, Gabbatha
Barabbas, the revolutionary
released rather than Jesus
Scabbard,.. the sheath of
a sword which cut Him
Gabbatha.. the judgment seat
of Pilate
..barABBAs, scABBArd,
gABBAtha...
Abba in each
Abba in the entire
play of the crucifixion
Abba.. the guilty one
(Abba is Aramaic for Father God)
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-Saiom Shriver-
Notes:
Jesus said... is to B Marshall
(The violence sired Roman government executed
Jesus, convicted of felony)
(to N Syracopoulos, an agnostic, who before he passed on
lived the Sermon On The Mount more than most
nominal theists)
(out of pain of hell so low... is to eileen w)
SWALLOWTAILS
Night swallows
the swallows' trails
and swallowtails.
Dawnfire
resurrects them entire.
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The Japanese beetle sews
eyelets in the rose.
Sweet wee weevils turn
lilacs to lilace.
JESUS CONVICTED OF A FELONY
The "known Communist"
and the known monarchist
in the family of Christ
have in union kissed.
In Love of Christ
has melted away
the fist
of the pacifist.
In the holiness
of Christ
the psychiatrist
has abandoned
trysts.
Love
the alchemist
makes wished for
forms
out of mist.
ABBA
Barabbas, Scabbard, Gabbatha
Barabbas, the revolutionary
released rather than Jesus
Scabbard,.. the sheath of
a sword which cut Him
Gabbatha.. the judgment seat
of Pilate
..barABBAs, scABBArd,
gABBAtha...
Abba in each
Abba in the entire
play of the crucifixion
Abba.. the guilty one
(Abba is Aramaic for Father God)
