Eve's Legacy
So it was all for this
Stark skies
Empty world
clinging taste of gall
The wedding drained of wine
Paralysis
and Lazarus
a mortal after all
Woman, behold your son
he said
Oh! piercing!
sword of Simeon's sight
How shall I contain it?
How beget
the cradled babe
again from heaven's height?
Empyreal Love is scorned
and mocked
stripped, whipped,
and nailed to Paradox
He is gone, he's nowhere
Now here?
Can Gates
of Heaven burst their locks?
Yet...something stirs, some germ
of Life
God broods
I feel new quickening
John leads me home. My son!
His word's
Revelation
where souls are sickening
From JERICHO ROSE, Songs from the Wilderness (collection in preparation).
Poems for the Easter Season
Ecce Homo (Palm Sunday)
Hero (Palm Sunday)
Prodigal (Holy Week)
Judas' Lament (Holy Thursday)
The Great Divide (Holy Thursday)
Shards (Good Friday)
Eve's Legacy (Holy Saturday)
Paradise Glimpsed (Easter Day)
A Stepping Stone (Easter Day and Week)
A Mysterious Companion (Easter Wednesday)
