Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Moors

Hey everyone! Okay, so I'm going to be jumping on board Abigail Kraft's Monthly Poetry Mondays. I won't always be posting recent work (the poem I'm posting today, for instance, was written when I was 15), but I'll try to participate as often as I can. :)

So, here goes...




MOORS

the moors lie, an open canvas
blown smooth by the wind --
barrenness, barrenness, barrenness that
gives birth to so much beauty.

the opening dawn brushes the heart
steals it away into the sweet, the familiar mundane
wavering chords of birdsong
weave through thick emptiness
fading, fading, fading
into the fog; straying,
waking in the rain.

lost hope is called back
and love wanders into the sun,
leaves its nest behind
to soar into heaven's sanctuary,

circling, circling, circling
over the gentle folds of the earth.

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Pattern




i've talked of heaven's gates in terms
of geometric patterns --
the golden bars, pearl-laden and parallel --
repeating, repeating, repeating
infinitely...
their endless panoramas raced through my mind while i sat
mastering the equation
and missing the entrance.

but you

you haven't learned arithmetic yet
and your faith makes me restless.

i believe 
when i see your fingers reach for mine
the lines in the palms of your hands, 
which you clutched so tightly 
in the womb --

these
are your patterns.

lift them, child,
leave your imprints in the air; 
our unseen fingerprints are 
His to breathe in
His to remember...

and He will collect your patterns,
guard them tightly between the pages of His book 
save the songs you spun in worship
eternally

forever and ever and ever and ever
and always.


it is a pattern, child

and it's dancing.







Inspired by Brooke Fraser's song "Seeds." Read its lyrics -- they're amazing.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

We could never guess





tiny little bundle, you

your skin delicately pink
blanketing your warmth
eyes of awe

your beautiful lashes and tiny hands
little noises
the very veins in your eyelids

are melodic


small translucent ribcage

your breath
is bigger than you


and God pours life
between your fingertips

you hold your mother's skin

your purpose here
is bigger than our imagination
we could never guess

but maybe someday

when we dance
through the universe
perfected


we will know


.:.

Dedicated to little Kayleigh, whose story I've been following breathlessly over the past few days. She has already touched my life, and she's changed the world in ways that we might never even guess at until we see the God who sustains her face-to-face. He has plans for her that exceed our imagination. Kayleigh is truly a miracle; please keep her in your heart today.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

AMEN

beneath the parting moonlight visions dances
the gentle sadness of a fading dream
that pencils in between each falling moment
a poem softly calling to be seen

from out the sea of drowning hearts despairing
her outstretched fingers reach to touch the dawn
a blessing falls like mist and whispers 'stillness'
an amen lingers in the calm