Summer Sunday Haiku
Your inner man dies
Filling with the living Christ
this is true self-love
A World
A world once
So green and fair
spinning in air
now dipped, drenched
in a Savior’s red blood
only way to
cover its darkness
City of New Hope
Celestial spires
Rise high
As angel choirs
Sound, rejoice
Holy saints walk,
Rub elbows
Side by side
In a city so rare
Where golden is the air
Encircling every face
Settling, leaving a trace
Of its shining glory
Walls there
Sheer, translucent
Rainbowed in ever
Changing colors
Saints live, worship
In joy with each other
The nearness, life of
Their God
Filling every crevice
Perfection’s glory
Fulfilling every wish
Throne room of
Grace
Three working as one
Joy lifts each face
To see their God
Forever
My human words
Are inadequate to say
Express the glory
Of even just one day
Within this place
Where perfection holds
Its complete sway
The world’s divine God
Lives here
Abolishes every care
Hungry, yearning
For you to dare
To aim for such a place
Reach higher
While you still have the time
He sits enthroned,
Waiting
For you to reach for
Him & His home transcendent,
This Heaven’s light sublime!
Lost & Found
The Lost, afloat
No anchor for
Their boat
Drifting
In the dark
Searching, searching
Only a small light
Gives any sight
Within the heart
Only an empty
Darkened sea
Carries the small boat
Without hope
For land’s safety
But, oh, the found
Never do they run aground
In trouble
Son’s light shines
To light their skies
Eternally overhead
Guided in Hope,
Love, Faith
They enter celestial gates
In Triumph!
Paradise beckons
Perfect Father awaits
Take the next steps
To make sure you sail
your boat through
God’s Golden, Celestial Gates!!
Rainbows
Rainbows, bright
This light, enwreathed
Around your head,
So thick,
upon your face
Sometimes only with
Difficulty can I trace
The smile of your lips
This great gift
You give
This life,
Our existence,
The breathing
In and out
Of You
A Spirit so ancient
So Holy
Wishes to dwell
Within your heart
This explosion
Of joy!
Giving to each &
all a complete, Fresh Start
to Life
Receive Him in
let Him retell your story
Do not reject
God’s living, eternal Glory!
At Last!
Swept up
As You pass
In a love
That will last
Beyond the
Moon’s light
Orphaned,
Cold, alone
In darkness I sat
Then You smiled
On a lost child
Found at last
Taken into
Your forever home
Where only
Eternal love is shown,
Radiating
Off your face
I run, in haste
Why do not all people
Literally chase
After You?
For the answer
To this
I have not the slightest
Clue
Why all men do not
Literally stumble,
Tumble over each other
To reach the bottom
Of your throne
Nowhere
There is no place
That I can go
You do not show
Yourself
My Creator, Lord
and Master
There is no task for
Which You are not ready
With You all things
Are possible
Within the Crucible
Of Your Will
Going to the other
Side of the globe
Still You mightily show
Your face
Even up onto the moon’s
Surface and light
Still I cannot lose sight
Of Your power and Your might
Enthralled, I watch each,
Your acts of mercy, feats
of beauty, intelligence, grace
For not one single heart’s beat
exists outside Your Love!
SoulSails 