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"In Stillness Greet the Dawn"
Poems for Morning Meditation
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Table of Contents 2
In Stillness Greet the Dawn 3
Sparrows 4
Alone? 5
Imprisomed 6
New Vision 7
The Seed 8
Does He Love Me Still? 9
I Thirsted 10
The Shack 11
Easter Thought - 1 12
Easter Thought - 2 13
Son Rise 14
The Cleansing Flood 15Doing The Math 16
Zion Horizon 17
Three Times 18
The Stone 19
The Price 20
Cycles 21
In His Presence 22
Skin 23
Who You Ultimately Are 24
Rumination or Illumination 25A Prayer 26A Prayer 27Deep In the Well of Disillusion 28How Marvelous the Voice of God 29Gods Promise 30
Dedication
In Stillness Greet the Dawn
Daily Meditations
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In Stillness Greet the Dawn
In stillness greet the dawn
Inspire air
Exhale despair
Release the gathering throngs
That just distract
And counteract
Your soul distilling longs
By pierced handsThat understand
This train of trials we're on
And what we face
At such a pace
For God's still on the throne
Inspire Life
Exhale strife
In stillness greet the dawn.
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Sparrows
Little friends who visit my window sill,
Shivering in the winter,
Chirping in the spring.
All life before you is set
And implanted within you are all the tools
You will require.
I, on the other hand, must look for meaning,
Must look for purpose,
Am restless, vigilant,
Constantly sifting ideas.
Your quick little movements fascinate me,
And give me pause:
We share the same Creator.
You, it seems, have learned to completely trust Him.
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Alone?
I thought myself alone
My voice a mere moan
Emitting from my cave
Of loneliness...
While thus enslaved
The mirage You staved
Saved, once again,
This claustrophobe.
For thousands and thousands and thousands of souls
Even this moment do You extol
My voice a mere morsel compared to the feast
That's offered up daily and laid at your feet.
Significant? No,
My rhythms and rhymes
Are doomed to succumb
To the pressures of Time
But just for this moment
With souls in delight
We all raise our voice
To light up the night.
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Imprisomed
The light imprisoned
In this prism
Begs to be released
To breach the daily grind
And with transcendent colors
Shine
Reversing pulseless pallor's
Grip upon this world
Ending bloodless screams
That all around us whirl
Providing pigment needed
For dreams to be unfurled.
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New Vision
Beyond the grasp of mortal mind
You work unseen and though I'm blind
And deaf and dumb to your true ways
There is a part of me that prays
To catch the smallest fleeting glance
Of your true power, then I'd dance
With joy at seeing my true source
No longer from this source divorced.
Alas, I must accept the fact
My mortal mind has cataracts
That keep my spirit's vision dim
And though I focus straight at Him
My mind picks up these strange distortions
Tinting all with mental torsions
So I'll pray new life begins
When I receive a brand new lens.
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The miracle of the universe
Packed within a little seed
And planted on Golgotha's hill
A gift to all humanity
Received God's wrath, besieged by pain,
Enveloped in a deep disdain
That poured from Heaven and from Earth
It died ignoble with a dearth
Of friends who faithful 'til the end
Found the seed a resting place
And mourning things that might have been
Resigned themselves to ebbing grace
But not for long for with the dawn
A tree stood on the fertile lawn
And branches reached into the sky
Connecting Earth to Heaven's eye
Who watched in favor as His Son
Provided shade for heart's so faint
And shelter for those wearied souls
Whose way had wandered from the banks
And desert dry now find their rest
'Neath spreading tree, by living well,
The hearts now beating in their breasts
Beat to a rhythm God indwells.
The Seed
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Does He love me still -
I, who wallowed in the swill
Swallowed Satan's pill
Followed every thrill,
I, ungrateful wedding guest
Who beat upon my breast
Demanding all the best,
Who searched through all the landFailed to understand
The gift of outstretched hands?
Alone...I did return
Atoned...my past was burned
A throne...throws Light where there was nil
Renewed
With death of doubt
I know He loves me still.
Does He Love Me Still?
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I Thirsted
I thirsted
There was wine
Hopes bursted
There was twine
World darkenedThere was light
Dawn harkened
There was sight.
In sadness
Find reliefIn gladness
At His feet
Grow stronger
Day by day
No longer
Castaway.
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There is a shack lurking in memory
Stiletto-stuck to corners of mind,
Where wounds, unhealed, defy hope to enterThe air befouled since love's light resigned.
The door now shut with windows boarded,
Darkness reigns in timeless tyranny,
Shame and guilt and anger lorded,
Hope and faith belittled, cleaved.Who can breach this stale estate
Where failures thrive untarnished, drear,
Where justice seems to deepen convictions
Our just deserts are unending tears?
One day a humble carpenter visits
With ancient tools of mystic design,
With painstaking effort slowly the Master
Upon Himself takes the putrefied grime.
The guilt, the shame, all on his shoulders,
The dark, the dank, the endless delay,
With Master skills He moves away bouldersThat blocked the Light of undefiled Day.
His work completed, devotion restored,
Tyranny ended, languor released,
The shack now serv a shining reminder
How Heaven can heal the most hopeless retreat.
The Shack
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Easter Thought - 1
the very hands that held the scroll
washed the feet
broke the bread
BECAME the broken bread
the healing heart that spoke the words
raised the dead
changed the water
BECAME the poured out wine
the obedient spirit that
anguished in the garden
languished on the cross
relinquished up his entire fate and future
forever
into the hands of his Father
BECAME the mystery
the Way designed
for Truth maligned
to Life assign ... to you ... and me.
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He is risen
He is not here
The cross is past
But now brought near
To all who bow
And call upon
The One who hung
And died thereon
He is risen
He is not here
He's lifted spirits
Dried the tears
Eased the burdensShown the way
Released the bonds
And freed the slaves.
He is risen
He is not here
So Hope's alive
Beyond the spheres
Of earth and sun
And home and hearth
Where Light dispels
The deepest dark.
He is risen
He is not here
And from beyond
Our veil of tears
We thrill to think ofWhen we'll hear
That He is risen
And He IS here.
Easter Thought - 2
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The silent giants pass in the night,
Influence unseen, but gravity felt,
Invisibly pulled by these spiritual spheres
My soul seems suspended as offers are dealt.
A promise of plenty from yawning abyss
That Vader-like calls from the planet of Self,
A path for ascending my personal throne
To rule as I will with my pride left unknelt.
This path is a crowded, well traveled route,
Invitingly paved with promises long,
But while I am packing, preparing to leave,
My heart hears a distant, winsome song,
A song from the ages and pages of time,
A song of decidedly different plan,
It calls for the actual dying of Self
That's ruled ever since The Falling of Man.
It calls for rebirth, a New Creation,
New hope, it promises, now can be found,
It calls for reunion with the Father,
The breaking of Bread, a cross and a crown.
The planet of Self invading my dreams
Dissolves as an incubus, darkly devising,
Fading with early morn's offering of beams,
I throw open the window and see the Son Rising.
Son Rise
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These old ears have heard an ancient voice
Stating the choice:
Forgive if you seek forgiveness
Release if you seek release
God, PLEASE...its not that simple
Life is complex now
Interactions need to be analyzed,
Compartmentalized, systematized
And sometimes sanitized
Don't you tune into Oprah and Dr. Phil?
Forgive if you seek forgiveness
Release if you seek release
But God, I was born with a bad temper
And then there's the bad upbringing
And what about the bad breaks?
The Cleansing Flood
Surely I'M not responsible for all of my mistakes!
Forgive if you seek forgiveness
Release if you seek release
Well...OK
I release anyone who has ever hurt me
Knowingly or unknowingly
I release all against whom I
have held a grudge
I forgive, I do.
Immediately I said this - it hit me
A crimson spatter at first
Then a flood
Ecstatic immersion
In a saving sanguinity.
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"Life is the increasingly rarefied experience of the beautiful."
LIFE = BEAUTYDoing
TheMath
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know and all ye need to know."
BEAUTY = TRUTH
I (Christ) am the way, the truth and the life."
_____TRUTH = CHRIST____
CHRIST = TRUTH = BEAUTY = LIFE
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The highway leading to Zion
A mirage? A whimsy?
A flimsy deduction from a desperate mind?
A product of traveling too long in the desert
With withering winds that beggar and blind?Have you not known the burning sands
The insatiable longing for pastoral lands
The call of a castaway deprived of escape
The plight of plethoric plebe reprobates?
Ignited, the questing refuses to die,Intrinsically weaving its way to the eye,
Projected from there by retinal lamp
It colors the landscape and there encamps,
Awaiting an answer.
In morning dew, before the dawn,I tiptoe out on waiting lawn
Then lying down and resting deep
Entrenched and drenched from head to feet
My thirsty soul now finds relief
My vision clears and sees the street
That stretches on beyond this day
Through desert lands and disarray
To crocus blooms designed to cheer
My focus zooms and sees no fear
But only joy at Zion's end
And peace in knowingIn timeless flowing
It's just around the bend.
Zion Horizon
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TTIMEIME
TTERRESTRIALERRESTRIAL
With ticks and tocks
And millions of clocks
Dividing our day
Like curds and whey
All nicely displayed
With minutes and hours
Wielding the power
To rush us to work
Or hurry to bed
We are wed
To Father Time.
TTIMEIME
CCELESTIALELESTIAL
Another matter
With momentous clatter
Of galactic collisions
And atomic divisions
With nuclear scatter
Taking millions of years
But looked on as brief
For stellar careers.
TTIMEIME
VVATICINALATICINAL
Spoken of old
And transcending itself
Where all things are new
And thus a wealth
Of wisdom's bestowed
On those laboring beneath
A terrestrial burden
And fleeing time's heat
As this ageless kingdom
Predating the stars
Sends Word to The Earth
And now bears the scars
A terrestrial reminder
Of celestial import
Though Time slips away
It still waits in this Court.
THREEHREEHREETIMESIMESIMES
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I have been a stone
But He can make even stones sing,
Or use them to build a shelter,
Or hurl them to break down a wall.
The wail of my will has been stilled,
A tsunami tide from the fall of pride
Devastated my house of cards,
In shards I lay broken
But the mystery encoded
From the beginning of time
Refined what remained
And restored my soul.
The Stone
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My sin stood there naked
AloneStripped of excuses
Devoid of veneers
Convicted and conflicted
In a sea of guilt
Unatoned.
Nailed at the pointWhere truth and justice cross
Left to die.
I unleashed the cry of the lost
Then listened...
Echoing from a timeless realm,
A Man in anguish, overwhelmed,
A willing victim of a verdict
Not his own.
My sentence was transmuted.
Set free from a sordid past
I stand aghast
And gratefully bow
To the One
For whom death was undone,
Who hung upon the tree
As the nails of my iniquity
Disappeared
Into my heavenly home.
The Price
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Spring it has sprung as frost has been wrung
From mornings through which the crocus were peeping
Forests in bloom and meadows well groomed
Grant boon to the bees and birth to the sneezing.Life full of wriggling, growing, amassing,
Elongating days with short shadow casting
Temperatures rising and daylight providing
Fuel for frenetic intrinsic dividing
Of those cells comprising this burgeoning mass
A wildly unfettered frivolic morass.
But what next?
This laughing, cavorting and sensuous song
Continues as days grow increasingly long
But equinox passed and solstice attained
The raucous disorder just seems to wane
As order returns, the solar friend burns,
But not nearly as brightly and foreshadows fall,
Then death and decay insist on their say
And cold winter's grip puts an end to it all.
The waves of life, peaks and troughs,
Forever they're found washing over the earth,
Am I just some flotsam along for the ride
Tossed to and fro since the time of my birth?
But, Oh!, what a ride! It's been quite a journey
The heights, the depths, the moments so still,
The times the waves were waves of raptureSent by His hand, aligned with His will.
Cycles
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I: Called and enthralled
Installed in His presence
I shook and shivered
Quivered.
My sins: Naked, aloneShould have been stoned
Who will atone?
I groaned.
Love: Such an outpouring
With blood, underscoring
The ancient prophet's
Predicted adoring.
The LAMB: Fresh from the slaughter
His blood on the altar
I rejoice with the Church
He bought Her.
Skin
In His Presence
I: Returning, discerning
My life full of yearning
Is now full of Spirit
Burning.
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The interface of skin and air
Holds more than beauty secrets fair
Cells stand guard, arms interlocked,
As heat and rain and sleet are blocked
But underneath this bold facade
Behold! a living esplanade
With winding, weaving, narrow streets
That hustle life to head and feet
Daytona burns and winter blasts
Attempt to pierce and then slip past
The layered, locking ranks of cells
That work so hard to threats dispel.
From time to time a layer sloughs
When tour of duty's deemed enough
Then junior guards march front and center
Set to seamless service render.
Protecting Life still beating there
Ensuring progeny a share
And though they're battered where they stand
Its worth it for the little hands
Just learning how to reach and hold
In time, the guardians of the Gold.
Far across the reach of time
Protecting Man in every clime
And echoed in our family tree
In time, this sloughing's passed to me
For generations gone before
Have held the line and watched the door
Protecting Life still beating there
Ensuring progeny a share
And though they're battered where they stand
Its worth it for the little hands
Just learning how to reach and hold
In time, the guardians
of the Gold.
Skin
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Who you ultimately are
Not a scar
Of a tortured childhood
Not a marred remainder of society's detritus
Not "just" a checkout girl, a delivery boy,
A nursing home resident...a streetwalker
You are the embodiment of a divine declaration
Robed in garlands of grace
Gifted by hands that are willing to pull you up
Offer you bread
Wash your feet
If I had eyes to see your true nature
I would bow before you...and your divinity
For He is in you.
Who You Ultimately Are
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Rumination
Or
Illumination.
The endless chewing on secular cud
Vernacular crud
Mendacious mud
Or
The endless viewing of transcendent light
Increasingly bright
As world takes flight
And with it...night.
Rumination or Illumination
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God
May I be hidden in you
Splintered from view
Rendered anew.
Christ
Please take my hand
When I struggle in sand
With nowhere to land.
Spirit
Please set me afire
With crystal desire
As sights are set higher.
A Prayer
Life
Let me come to enjoy
And with Son employ
The gifts of this voyage.
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Heavenly Father,
I lay before you my checkered pastVast are the voids where I wor-
shipped self
Where I walked alone,
But bones are weary and spirit sore
The Door...is it still open
Is there room for one more?
Is it too late to walk
The Galilean shore?
A Prayer
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Deep in the well of disillusion
I sit and suffer in silent surrounds
Nursing the pain of palpebral contusion
A black eye reminder of things above ground.
Life knocked me down, I didn't get up,
I withered and slithered and sunk in this hole,
And now I find that I'm feeling quite stuck
Not relishing living the life of a mole.
How could this happen, things were just fine,
The job, the spouse and even the pet,
So what if I skipped over matters divine,
Those things never mattered, at least, not yet.
I fight with this subterranean thinking
In low lumen vision, with no human friend
To lend me their light of comprehending
To lift me to heights and sorrow suspend.
Perchance it's really the perfect arrangement
And all that's required, the single task,
The simple solution to end this estrangement
"If you would receive, there's a way...just ask!"
Deep in the Well of Disillusion
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How marvelous the voice of God
As delicate as unfurling pea pods
As loud as a thundering herd
And as sweet as a child that is sleep-
ing...undisturbed.
How marvelous the heraldic hands
That formed all the beaches, all the sands,
Tickling our fancy and funding the feast
Fermenting to wine, our souls, with His yeast.
How marvelous the chance to obtain
An audience, then join the refrain
With Him who holds no disdain
But bends low to hear those who whisper in pain.
How Marvelous the Voice of God
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