Best Jericho Poems

Ekphrasis on Album Cover Art – 3-28-25
Jericho Road – Written, sung, recorded by poet
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Thinking About Jericho Road

A road with no name, where earth births stillborn stones,
Snakes through stillness
Into a fading perspective that neither winks nor smiles
Not touching impotent palms of bleached fronds,
Colored in the scent...

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Deliberately inching its way toward break of day,
The morning sun begins to emblazon the barley field.
Relaxing and watching the orb find its way,
The lady of the house waits for night to yield.
Like every morning, she is seated there,
Enjoying the dew scented breeze on her veranda.
Feeling...

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I come whence I go the Lord alone knows 								            like this wheel in the sky this a true rose 									             ...

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Blasphemy…cloud over their hearts of gold
Their value gradually diminishes…their weapons turn to mold
Serenity…deserted them and neglected them like orphans 
Their joy rapidly wears out…they mislaid their abundant portions

They yearn,
“RESTORE the walls of Jericho!”

Anguish…shadows over their dwelling, sacred place 
Their weaknesses manipulate them – they’re the...

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he told me she was stalking him
she'd taken photos of him secretly
but i said to him, like 
the Buddy Holly song says,

it's so easy to fall in love
it's so easy to fall in love 
it's so easy
it seems so easy

he 
thanked me 
for the 
wisdom...

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july jericho
jubilation junebug joy
just joking...

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with one little drop                                         ...

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Where silhouetted sentinels silently stand in vain
bleeding shades of layered shame on blight-lined highways below, 
their ghostly shadows remind us of dreams we dared to drain.   
  
Interred on unkempt plots, crumbling brick carcasses maintain
evidence we’re forced to see if the trails...

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We were at a children's party
He told me about his ukulele 
When he played in front of audiences
People would shout out, "Did it shrink?"

He worked as a chemistry teacher
To get this going he explained 
A study he did with his students
In primary school

The comparative neuroanatomy...

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Jericho Roads

By Mark Stucky
At the end of the rock-strewn road,
fell the walls surrounding Jericho.
Spared from destruction,
were a harlot’s people,
the family of Rahab,
Israel’s unlikely ally,
and unlikely ancestor
of peasants and kings
and the King of kings,
who came to save us all,
when our own walls fall
at the ends of...

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Journey on Jericho Road

Shattered grace in jagged nights on the road to Jericho;
Ev’ry step and ev’ry breath are filled with shame
I know I am to blame; 
I build a wall to hide my face so you can’t see 
All the pain I’ve caused – all...

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Now Jericho, besieged by Israel,
Had shut its doors, and none went in or out.
The LORD told Joshua, “If you’ll believe,
We’re going to bring these walls down with a shout.

His mighty men of valor are inside;
The king of Jericho also awaits.
You and your men of war...

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Scorn and war torn unjust misfortune dark and offensive human souls lifted,
master of deception denied ruler of perception cold and calculated all 
righteousness eliminated. Empire of pain one hundred years of reign gospel 
spoken never in vain fall of redemption roman conviction garden of Nero...

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The judgement of God
results from the sin of man
as the Lord's righteous rule
always is seen to stand

The fear of God
is the right response to God's law
so as Joshua obeys God's voice
The walls of Jericho become like straw

The love of God
perfectly casts out fear
as Rahab the...

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At Moses’ death he was given command,
To lead God’s children into the Promised Land.
This people would continue on their way
To this land of promise, as God did say.

The shoes of Moses would be hard to fill,
But try, he must, and God’s will fulfill.
So across the...

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