Haven

Tiny pockets of breath

Folded into droplets of day

Break the dryness of mind

From sinking

As I think about cause

Pause to reflect

The light from the Son's

Great place

A forest aglow

A snowfallen hush

Reminding a breather

Of nothing to rush

clarity

vision strengthened

proper sure

waiting in the time endure

open flood of wrath to see

watch and wait

is His decree

place a foot

on solid ground

watch as all

will tumble down

focused on the lavish

trace

that He may erase

of His good grace

many perilious days shall come

many deviant people run

many wail at the coming horror

as unleashed the fury

His Holy Power

Way

Crossing Sideling Hill

I fixed my thoughts

On the sidereal and recalled

Days of promise and truth

When the swelling started

I cannot recall

Or why the vision

Stopped shrinking

Room to consume

The evident thaw

By the heat of the stars

Sure thinking

In night fades

Of optimal quiet

The doors of perception

Are open

In variant slices

Of sentient convey

The ways to the others

Are chosen

Circuits of light

Like fields on fire

Desire the wrapping

Of matter

And after the glory

Infuses the holy

The former will alight

As the latter

Rain flames down

On waiting want

To burst souls

On Jacob's ladder

reminisce

forty blooms ago

when the woods bled waves of pine scent over every thought

I didn't know

time was still

heavy as I trembled

under the touch

of God's spirit;

I remember

showers of gold

and the smell

of presence keeping me

safe and quietly soaking

wonder of green

now I lapse

into momentary recall

so barely similar

and patinated

with ache and age

under weight and dross;

lacking factions culminate

to perturb the recollections'

purity

perhaps clouding is necessary

to prevent the clarity of

lost

straighten

" In your patience possess ye your souls." Luke 21:19

Therefore be diligent to be found seeking.

Let not the world coerce.

Let not the lips speak falsely.

Be not perceived perverse.

In all things discern wisdom.

In all things lightly trod.

In all things seek His counsel.

In all things magnify God.

purge

it is a difficult task

to renounce the flesh

that must still be occupied

bits of gravel

collected

between the stones

of gold

adhere

but must be cleared

for polishing

of understanding

"Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified." Psalms 70:4

humbled

eventide actuate

forces form outline

heavy threads accelerate

critical mass mine

substance suffers battering

from the world's unworthy hands

so I inclined to God for glory

to heal the sickened lands

and He inclined to me

"And he answered,

Fear not: for they that be

with us are more than

they that be with them."

II Kings 6:16

Hurdling

so noted

brink of night

flowers fade from lack of light and I crawl soundlessly back and forth

breathing

wilderness stretches

sublime reaches

wondering what the Lord is up to;

showering dust of gold like petals in a field of poppies bursting

red glory forming pattern beyond distance assailing my eyes like needles

that thrust their point into unbroken love of the sun's tempestuous rays

go and find

a billion blushing readies to take hold of blueberries root

as currants come and go; perfect fruit for forage

I am anchored heavy by gold of God's good grace whose countenance ever shines

reminding me of my place as servant of others' needs

careful calls to crawling

cats that cautious catch

curious canaries convening

watching outcome of wretch

bend to point of break

ache heal as days pile on

concede to point of zeal that

awaits the patient song

Sustenance

"Arise, shine: for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." Isaiah 60:1-2

Solomon sits as a sign of strength

Wisdom witnessing well

What to collide with prayers of day

To convey escape from hell

Darkness whispers

Susurrant lies

Swarms the fool

Who quickly dies

Bleak and vacant

Deceptions gold

To the untrained ears

Of the dark one's fold

Humble hands that crack and bleed

Seek the source of good good seed

That they might press into the soil

And have a right to the Master's oil

Appropriate

Spot on blur: awoke from harmony of world dream

Rise mother and work, dawn to dusk without cease

Categorize plastic thick to thin without dust

Expend every drop of energy; hunt peace

Spot on blur: drop task pause day

Pray alleviation of guilt, grieve lost

Host point of order reaching forward

Up to touch; survey cost

Spot on blur: crest anesthetization

Thwarted progress plumb sad

Grate dual cross love hinging

Moment breach alleviate had

Spot on blur: motor stalls

Flooded field of apt hue

Quick release of choked line

Watching for a static view

Test

Poison bubbles up and cracks the surface

Toppling pride to the ground

Ground down with force and crushed

Blushing blood is found

How to rectify plight

The night that assails peace

Words that break the heal

And steal the hope of release

Word upon word quakes

Vacancy on bridge

Forgive the rivet's flaw

That pushes trust to edge

to reach

Solid veil hedges on

Weight of holders' strength

To push upon anchored thought

That lifts a mountain's length

Tunnel through solidity

Impervious to height

But grounded in the evidence

Of seers focused light

The correlation meets the day

To expose the links of same

One of depth one of breadth

That culminates in name

What to call the vision of

The seekers' hope of flight

That hinges on epiphany

Found past cross of night

Foraging

"It is breathtaking as one rises up over the world one has been living in...and looks down at it stretching away and away. The Rio Grande - the mountains - then the pattern of rivers...Then little lakes...then...Amarillo country...a fascinating restrained pattern of different greens and cooler browns...It is very handsome way off into the level distance, fantastically handsome...The world all simplified and beautiful and clear-cut patterns like time and history will simplify and straighten out these times of ours - What one sees from the air is so simple and so beautiful I cannot help feeling that it would do something wonderful for the human race - rid it of much smallness and pettishness if more people flew."

Georgia O'Keeffe

language

What are the modes to convey

edge plane form color space?

How to give shape to loss

joy pain hope disappointment?

When does representation crest

pushing past words toward sensation?

When does abstraction find place

in natural world?

How can permanent and ephemeral

exist simultaneously?

How do concept and concrete

combine?

concurrence

purity

purpose

conveyance

Hosea 14

New Rest

Moments tick down

Stick to my stomach aching

Baking in the moments of parch

Harsh rendering remembering

Loss

Standing

Open ended ending

Of clear closing knowing

No retort of sought

Source

Report towing

Lack of sustenance

Foaming like rabid

Rabbits roaming

Searching for rest

Hoping owing

Never knowing

Certain growing

Reverent

Cross

reparation

white out wants in

snow blankets view

scrambled solid

waiting true

white to follow through

red to cleanse the stain

plain new blue bleaches

the night sky's reign

white rights the flaw

fallen over known

wrong route rode

tumbled back home

white jumps the gate

quicker gaining speed

as light mounts the day

forcing fallow seed

white wants the day

victory over night

wash against grain

and set aright

worlds

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Hebrews 11:1-3

presentation of the seals

to reveal the will of the LORD

who can afford to look away

line by line

and precept upon precept

as tear by tear

must hear His voice

In time of trouble

who can stand

the lashing of the Lord

deliberate

Step by Step

helps mountains fall

all bathed in red burnt yellow sunset

light

licked gorgeous

Infused

Indolent rose stretching

naked swept

climbing harder

lunging across

interior warmth

nexus

exterior

Until magenta reaches

nebulous rise

torquing

over sensation

Thought caught

heightened by

every heavy

excerpt

adjudication

Pause to recollect

Reflect inner

There is active

occurrence unseen

Understand

natural

differences

elementally

restored

starting

toward

always

noticing

derision

tripartite

Form to encapsulate meaning

locus loosed

intangible made tangible for reproof

promising ordered forum

Compromise demise;

of a strict adherence

must to follow

edict as

sent by divine

While searching

hollow masses mount

evidencing notions

not seen

Sacred motives

in silence enter

leaving imprint

embossed

not too cautious

to contain stain

Coded

Increasing seems, that is to say

Secured proof cures

Extravagant eyes as

Evidence extends

; otra vez

Inside pine

Scent sends

Exceptional pinnacles of

Ellusory space

Of spirit

Holy and pure

Gracious giving

Of tremendous hope

Descends forward

Thoughts spill

Heaping toward

Anxious pneuma

Not confounded but

Kind

Yellow lash

Of sudden light

Unbound

New Year Construction

Spare

given to share

shelters the hollow

of without

with in the space

the shape takes hold

of edges ending

and stretching

format to function

good good ground

limiting flaw

of foundation

limitation so far as

the confines defined

by the strength of

viewers own mind