Short Jericho Poems

july jericho
jubilation junebug joy
just joking...

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what the blessed know
that the road toward Jericho
be pave with gold
yet another 
quiet place 
for the soul...

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Red is the colour of my hair,
The colour of the blood in my veins’
Of the cord that hung on the whore’s window
And doomed Jericho to fall.
The thin, slow strand of vermilion;
Scarlet ribbon tracing its way to the earth:
Rahab’s redemption and my rebirth....

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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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blowing her trumpet flower
my Jericho walls fall in
my geriatric state she
states she's younger

oh those who cast
the first stone for
crying out loud
geeze please

i live in a
glass
dome
so

don't 
damn
me if you
haven't judged

yourself...

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with one little drop                                                                                                      living water washes death's sway                                                                                    no weed but a rose         -Anastatica...

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1. Walls of Jericho:
Giddy
City
 

2. Moses:
Hopper
Stopper


3. The Egyptians:
Water
Fodder


4. Jael:
Hammer 
Slammer


5. Sampson:
Pillar
Killer


6. Laban:
Fuzzin'
Cousin


References: 
1. Joshua 6:20
2. Exodus 10:17-19
3. Exodus 14:28
4. Judges 4:21
5. Judges 16:29-30
6. Genesis 31:41

Written July 2d and 3d, 2013...

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Without death
life loses all beauty
Without death
life loses its way
Without death
life’s value diminished
Without death
life reasons to pray

Without death
life’s years lose their value
Without death
life’s seething refrain
Without death
life loses its prescience
Without death
—life dearth to explain

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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Parting Gift

You called it a parting gift,
to soften away the blow.
A way to make the pain lift,
To stop the tears flow.

Instead, it parted my heart,
As the walls of Jericho.
It ripped me wide apart
As you shall never know

This parting gift you gave me
Has cursed me, body and soul;
I only hope in life's new page
You shall never follow...

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Happiness inside the box of our lives
secure in our own realities
foolish are we
for our walls are 
imaginary.

Inside the box of our lives
bricked in by our own constraints
foolish are we
for all walls are
imaginary

The box of our lives
may the walls all fall
like the famous walls of Jericho
free are we
of our lives
let us be
free...

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Garden walls blocking sunshine
Many years of shade there be
Seeds waiting for germination 
So many pastel colour flowers

Asking God for light to shine
The lord most divine 
The walls fall like Jericho 
The ground ready and primed 

My flowering began to bloom 
Beautiful baby blues and pinks
Strong smells lynx the air 
My garden alive and smiling 



pronto ad andare...

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The Great Escape

I struggle to bring down walls
That my demons built inside,
I run through the devil’s gauntlet
Just to find a safe place to hide.
My demons enjoy taunting me
As my walls start taking shape,
I looked up to the heavens
For God to plan my great escape.
The Holy Ghost shook the walls
And my demons had no chance,
My walls fell down like Jericho
And my soul began to dance.
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one day
you will take me in your arms
in such a fashion
that I will instantly know
I can 
exhale
release
let go of the great wall of defense
that shelters me in the Jericho of
my womanhood
one day
this victory over the darkness of mistrust 
the walking on ground made of 
slushy sand
this victory over words not said and words 
whispered in the hush of silence
this victory over love lasting for an eternity
will be won
and I
will
sigh……

3/30/2021...

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we sat down and i offered my hand
he didn't see it, with his head down
and said black decides where the clock is 
positioned
it was discovered it wasn't working
so i fetched the microwave
to position next to the board
he 
put on his chess gloves
my mother became a
backseat chess player,
then removed her lemon pudding 
from the microwave
we continued 
Jericho entered the room and leaned on my shoulder
he said
i'm
just
checking 
on
you 
mate

i lost  

...

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I
Remember Rahab "the harlot"
Gentile gone to God of Jewry
Jericho? She saw the light
I, too, iterate: God is Good
Choose correctly, pray patiently
Daily devotions, by people, prophets

II
Trust true Savior, Yeshua hameshiach
Don't delay: don't dally: pray
Patiently, faithfully, trustingly
Why go to men? Men may mend
Some things; God mends meaningfully
Go to Him, don't move a micro-millimeter
Spirit help me stay close; I move away
When I feel forlorn; He is still There...

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