Jesus Senses Poems

You can hear her in the dark, listening –
Like the wind’s cool breathe, glistening,
Telling hearts to believe, just believe –
Because love will not deceive, won’t...

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"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good."
Psalm 34:8

Last I saw and heard of him, he was
recovering well from a bout with cancer.
But it...

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Darkness fell like the heavy cloak of fear,
Bursting all around the cross, 
So I could see the grief erasing His life,
His grace, though, still glistened...

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My God, why are you so quiet to your child?
You are noisy as trucks rumbling by remote
I see you in the terrors of the night...

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I see myself I awakening
And in my present tense I am not forsakening
I believe in myself and I stand tall I’m only short in temperament

But...

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***  RATE THE BATTLE  ***

Rate your pain, they always want to know,
On a scale of one (least) to ten (worst — “like hell,”...

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My gay white boyhood
struggled with the theological problem
of personally appreciating heterosexual superiority 
sacred stories
and multiply mistranslated word-choices
of Jesus Christ

Within a Christian
monotheistic
evangelically triumphalist doctrine.

This personal mindbody...

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AAA

I learned to type in Jr. High. 
I learned to tap the keyboard. 
One letter than another... 
on and on. 
AAA
AAA
AA Then... B

AAA
AAB
ABB
BBC
... 

One day...

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** Neither Silent Nor Still **

With you…by you…in you
Lord,
I never found silence
To be stillness.

With you, silence is
  elevating, escalating,
Eternally
An ongoing current — a soundless...

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Down distance streets distant days obscured 
Visions of idle things resting in the weeds skeletal 
Rusted eons have fallen machines dead

In their stance flies flicker...

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Jesus was a patristic carpenter,
a non-nationalistic builder
of goodnews communal structure,
a nonviolent communicating leader,
a multispirit-natural facilitator,
divinely humane bilateral
spiritual health is natural wealth
facilitator of recreative green
and blue
and...

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Blessed with scent-lavished fulfillment
I thank God for sense of smell’s* endowment
allowing my nose to optimize daily goodness merriment
while feasting on fragrances wafting pleasurable bestowment…

Morning greets...

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Where did the paths take you,                   ...

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GOD IS IN EVERYTHING

Whenever I go to the forest,
I see God stands like a tree,
waving from the distance
on the world majestically.
I watch Him in the...

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One More Delivery

Please wait at the door. 
I told the man holding the package. 
He smiled, 
not unkindly, 
but as patiently as one might expect,...

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