God and Balm of Gilead
when with God are in doubt
of Him poems will be about
how He can help us out
when with God have been
He will always let us in
free from all sin
when God is in each Psalm
makes us peaceful and calm
fill us with His balm
Balm of Gilead
when God will be pure
has helped us to sins endure
for COVID is the
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Categories:
gilead, allegory,
Form: Haiku
Down Birdie Galyan Road
Will you take a ride with me on an unsaddled pony,
past the dusky copper kettle glow of Gilead pond?
Two young, carefree kids wandering barefoot..
far as we can see the fields stacked in hay, our highway
The Summer sun we'll chase away to the end of days
'til the dark, moonless forest
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Categories:
gilead, life, nature, remember, stars,
Form: Pastoral
A Balm In Gilead
There is a balm in Gilead
To every hungry soul He gives His bread.
His very own elect; He decreed be overfed (Psalm 23:5)
*Ask in my name and it will given unto you*, His words said.
For our redemption; He caused His blood to be shed.
The veil separating man from the Holy of holies; His death shred.
Seeing
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Categories:
gilead, birth, christian, depression, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Balm In Gilead
Long pole rise in center of yard
Morning like a mass in Latin dictum
Vanished. Here she comes
White as the mountain robed in mist
Echoing the centuries disassembled
In the chaos memory of foreign tongue
Holding water like a psalm in her hand
And watching it break
North, South, West, and East like dawn.
She shall say a prayer for the village today
Three
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Categories:
gilead, history, prayer, me,
Form: Free verse
Balm In Gilead
Dear God
In the sundry scatterness of truth
And the sultry pillage of the brute
Bind me up again
In swaddling rags
And burial ointment for the pain.
For through death
I shall approach my birth
Better than a resurrection
Of lilies
From the immortal bulb
Of only faith
Dear God
Let me be consumed in you.
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Categories:
gilead, faithme,
Form: Free verse