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James Dotzler Poem
Rapture
Do not hide or harden
quiet your passions
Silence the chatter
Beckon His capture
A still, silent heart
is ripe for rapture
Rapture my riot
capture my chaos
Be-still my heart
YOU ARE: with us
A still, silent heart
is ripe for rapture
The dead lifeless figment
that threatens to capture
Set ablaze and transform
with your net capture
A still, silent heart
is ripe for rapture
A wandering heart
with lust filled eyes
Come burst with your love
Lord; purify!
A still, silent heart
is ripe for rapture
Allow He who hooked the fishermen
to pierce your heart
A sweet, sweet wound
at the hands of your Master
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Thank you Lord for allowing Peter to fail
For times when my spirit is weak and frail
Thank you Lord for fire warmed denial
For times when I break down under trial
Thank you Lord for Peter's fear, his guilt, and shame
For I too have often carried those names
Thank you Lord for his objection to your plans
For times that I am a proud stubborn man
Thank you Lord for a long night of emptiness
In order that you overflow our nets
Thank you my Lord, my Love, for a love reclaimed
As you beckon my love again, again
In all these failures, I see him, I see me
And you respond with unfailing Mercy
And if you still want him, you can still want me
I can offer my life fully, freely
For if he is the rock hewn for eternity
Please Lord carve a living stone from me
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Unleashed
And now fifty days since Salvation wrought
Heavenly Volley overflows their court.
Eleven bound in wood, fear, and doubt
Only Love can conjure the single way out.
Flame descends, incinerates what binds
Laps courage in timid heart, soul, and mind.
Like their Master they burst their tomb
Like their Master, their tomb a new womb.
Flames forge within; Love consumes all fear
The Good News molded to alien ear.
Heavenly arson hurled down to unite
One Bread, One Body, One Church, one CHRIST.
The fallen arise, Paradise within reach
Universe anew; Upper room unleashed.
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Luke 15:11-32
In search of delight, I wandered away
Exchanged my inheritance for nothing at all.
Choking on filth, suffocating in sin
I drew one last breath, and dared venture home.
Upon my knees with pod stained cheeks
When from afar you beckoned me near.
You ringed me and robed me, welcomed me home
Cleansed and clutched me, claimed me your own.
With open side, you slay me forgiven
With tender gaze, you tended my wounds
With pierced hands, you slaked me Precious
Your Mercy; my treasure
Your Name; my inheritance
Your Word; my path
Your Kingdom; my home.
"This brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found."
Chentelle Anne Cooke
Favorite Scripture Contest
Submitted June 3, 2020
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A simple soul desires simple things,
health, family, and favor from God.
A simple soul prays a simple prayer,
Thy will be done, with all its might.
A simple soul performs simple acts,
the task at hand, the duty of vocation.
A simple soul offers simple means,
an open mind, a heart to be stirred.
A simple soul follows the simple Way,
with a supple will, upon its knees
waiting to be moved.
A simple soul has a simple design,
thread with thanksgiving,
and patterned with praise,
A simple soul displays a simple trust,
like a child, in the Providence of God.
A simple soul
simply lives its life
simply gives its life
for the glory of God.
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Barnacled brows shutter
aged eye
Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside
Addiction, disease
Abused, neglected
Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside
Sub par IQ
Removed from view
Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside
Scarred and marred
Disfigured, discarded
Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside
From lightest to darkest
and all in between
Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside
Every reflection
That's ever been seen
Look deeper, look deeper
There's beauty inside
The Image of God
living inside
Look deeper, look deeper
God's beauty inside
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Punctures the mind with thorns of Truth,
draws forth an inferno from a smoldering ember.
Erupts a Kingdom from a mustard seed
embraces abandonment upon its knees.
Slices open your heart, reorients Truth,
galvanizes purpose and awakens identity.
It pierces your hands, straightens your feet
engulfs your will, takes up its Cross.
All so God may...
Re-knit your soul in the Image of Glory and
Torch your life with the Light of Christ.
Brian's Select F, Any Form, Any Theme
Entered June 13, 2020
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Foundation
Thank you, Lord, for allowing Peter to fail.
Thank you for the crow of denial
his crow of estrangement
my crow of betrayal.
Thank you for love reclaimed over breakfast on the shore.
For the love of fidelity
his love of friendship
my love of loyalty.
Thank you for transforming failure into foundation.
Coward shepherd no more!
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Whisper to me
I can't hear you when you scream
rescue me
engulfed in that scream.
Whisper to me
like the portent of the Omnipotent
upon the still small breeze
calms the chaos, quells the cacophony
gently surrenders the ear.
Saving whisper, attune my ear to truth.
Giving whisper, poise my mind for beauty.
Merciful whisper, dispose my soul to goodness.
Because a whisper, oh, a whisper!
Anything worth giving
anything worth receiving
should be
born of
a whisper.
Regina Riddle
Whisper To Me Poetry Contest
Entered June 10, 2020
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Trinity
Fixes
All
Things
Hears
Everything
Resonate
Second
Omnipotent
Name
Silently
Pierces
Intellect
Reveals
Inner
Truth
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