Grief Good Friday Poems

Beaten beyond recognition
Tortured in ways we’d like to ignore
Because our hearts are disturbed
By the darkness that fell across our world
When Jesus was dying on a...

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From Gabbatha, before the judgment seat,
a winding, tortured road: Golgatha's end.
His flesh in shreds, he staggers on His feet,
rough timbers grate excoriated skin.

The lines from...

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Jesus died for my sins
But if I live for naught
Am I living freely?
As with constitutions -
Mix of rights and duty!

Jesus died for my sins
What need...

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ASSAULT 
I feel the light assault my tender optics. 
I see the elections flow and ebb. 
The particles of reality assault my mind. 
Can you...

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The miracle is restoring
joy.

Sometimes this means bringing back the dead,
Opening the eyes of the blind,
Restoring limbs,
and so on,
but these are just means to a Greater...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Tears in the Garden of Gethsemane were in a downpour
They ran deep in the cracks of pain of a divine soul
There was an endurance of...

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4 Haiku for the spirit 

To fly far away
Let clouds absorb unhappiness
 Tears a summer lake

Haiku
Melancholy
Unburden my heart of grief
Leave as morning fog 

Haiku
As an...

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