Long Redemptions Poems

Tell me this…

In your vision,
Am I your mission?
In your eyes,
Are their hints of lies?

Why did you let go of everything you once had?
It’s okay to have a new start; on the otherhand, it’s not bad
They...

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I awake to the dawning of another day
To my knees, I fall and begin to pray
This prayer is different, unlike any before
All of the sudden, a sound outside my door

Upon my feet, I run down...

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Whistle does the lone desert winds, flowing downwards from
Boot hill cemetery, in icy chilling breeze full of echoing voices,
From the past, begging for redemptions last chance of salvation.
Roll does the crimson tumbleweed, towards the ghost...

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It looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In every window a wind chime stirs, gently caressed by
A chilling...

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On the streets of sin city, on the high roller's main drag,
Known as the Las Vegas Strip, a gentlemen phantom
Does stroll dressed in all black attire, striding forth with his golden Cain,
Flipping a silver chip...

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I thought for a long time

to try and do something right

(in your eyes)

I've taken the blows

and the comparatives 

of every beauty you know



You love me, you loathe me,

I'm evil and detestable

You take me to my...

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Judas, Judas, didn't you know
From the cross, forgiveness flows
Upon yourself you brought much strife
In betrayal, you ended your own life

Judas, Judas how many shall follow
Turning their backs, for a better tomorrow
God's not in it, only...

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Forsook my tears
Misplaced my memories
Forgot the years
I hope I'll forget me

Oh you have seen, my love
The way our lives have fallen down
Like broken rubble at our feet
Silence the only sound
That we could hear
As we lay...

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Forsook my tears
Misplaced my memories
Forgot the years
I hope I'll forget me

Oh you have seen, my love
The way our lives have fallen down
Like broken rubble at our feet
Silence the only sound
That we could hear
As we lay...

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It is the craving never satisfied, the malformation
Of gluttonous starvation, the disfigured beast of emaciation.
Hell's spiritually depraved wind walker, feasting on the
Lingering slowing pulse of the flat liners final vibrations.
Engorging itself on the fiendish terror,...

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The future now seemed to be so dark and bleak
Why, always had she been one, in love, so weak
Always had she surrendered
Always had she adhered

Yet, it had come with no surprise
That, as from then, no...

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There is a man, locked away. Shackled.
Chilled rusty bars and barb-wrapped fences
	apart from his fellow man.
Shunned, unseen and unheard. 
	Stigmas of a world unknowing of repentance.
	Of reawakenings and redemptions.
A walnut gavel, robed fist clenched,
	brought down...

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Where will you be when the trumpet sounds

When the call comes with an 
amazing surprise
A shout is heard by all who leave 
these grounds
And all the dead and alive in Christ 
shall arise
How will you...

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In the Sistine chapel where frescos peep,
away from watchful devote eyes that weep,
a conclave gathers in reflection deep,
to choose a shepherd for gospels to keep.

Amidst partisan whispers, day and night,
behind closed doors, their sacred task...

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Shades of rufous and crimson oared between the eyes and the mind,
Vestured the feelings that rip the heart as a nagging memory
Overshadowing the pilgrim’s intentions, desires, and dreams.
The petite wench, this strumpet, harlot may I...

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Human Rights


We struggled more 
With these rights which are the rights of humanity 

We cried for our rights 
We cried for our rights as humans 
Our rights for education, sustainability and more 

With this cry...

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Far from educations superstition
In the barren fields they planted their tyranny 
Where the pagan made a cross of stars
In the green lands of their mysticism

Yet still by ancient tongue they have spoken
Be they a black...

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My Lord is he who sits on the throne
I await his return to enter his home
I am unworthy my Lord to recieve your grace
a slave in the world has been my place

Why would the lowly...

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The hardest losses
are those too late to repair
what has been win/win time lost
to despair

Just as love
cannot co-arise
where fear grows 
fully uprisen
a prison
predicting anger's nearby
impetuously apprised
surprise.

So too,
Freedom cannot thrive
where addiction has hard helped
us feel we are...

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Jesus Christ incarnate became a man
lived on this earth thirty and three years
showed to all who and what is God
faced man's opposition and all his smears

This Jesus the God-man took on our flesh
faced temptations just...

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A night of miracles, of splendor, of grace,
A night of wonder for all to trace.
A night of promise of hope, of glory,
A night of holiness, redemptions story.

A night to believe, to accept, to embrace.
A night...

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Right or Wrong
    By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Right or wrong goes along.
Every option has stayed.
Righteous souls in the throng
Sing truths; hopes are prayed.

Stop! Study! Be approved.
Sing praises; oh sweet Lord.
Thank Him for sin removed.
Put...

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Lonesome day knocking on the door, 
Brand new day crawling on the floor, 
Wonder when my fortune 
Would be kind to my luck, 
Time is chasing 
But life just won’t work.

Twilight that guides the shooting...

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Our relatives is our problem
The colonial empires
Has left Africa 
So we thought that was 
The beginning of a total redemption
We rejoiced cos we thought 
It was freedom at last 
We embrace our own 
Our very...

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LUMINACE LIGHT SHINES SO BRIGHT;
And the so shines beautiful;;
Visage of light holy and right, so bright;
The Son shines beautiful;
O’ and the Son shines beautiful;
The Son shines beautiful;

Mercies grace shines on His face;
He rose from the...

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