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Dark Cave

In the dark cave
where my body was laid
where I took all death
Where I took all loss of hope
Where I took broken dreams,
In the bleakness
of the enclosing rock tomb
In this destruction cave
where waiting 
held three days of Grief,
in that cave the miracle
of my resurrection
forever breaking death
Freed you forever from the cave
Freed you forever from death
Freed you forever to new life,
so from your cave
I bring you into rebirth
a life of new dreams
a new journey,
You are eternally forgiven
Eternally new
Eternally renewed in God.

Starting Thoughts:
Trapped in a cave? Maybe you are needing to come out of hibernation? There in your cave God can meet you through Christ who went into a death cave, trapped in it for three days, but broke free (easily) to bring you that same freedom.
Written during baptism service where in the water we also die to self.
Poem Topic Tags: baptism, cave, death, forgiveness, freed, freedom, graves, grief, miracles, new, rebirth, renewed, resurrection, tombs
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Doorway

The blood
painted on the doorway
Side to side
and lintel above
shaping a
foreshadowed cross
and the Angel of death
passed over,
Echoing into the future
leading to another doorway
another covenant
a different promised hope,
a final rocky hill cross,

Where death would be destroyed
Where fear would be buried
Where the gateways of hell
would crumble,
Where religious restrictions
would be broken,
this cross
a love creation
a love weapon
a forever resurrection change
a universe transformation
this cross
this Christ.

Starting Thoughts:
A connection via doorways from the Passover in Israel to the new covenant that Jesus opened through the cross and the power of his resurrection.
Poem Topic Tags: #angels, #blood, #covenants, #cross, #death, #doorway, #fears, #love, #passover, #resurrection, #transformation,
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Slippery Hope

Hope slippery like
Soap on a rope
dissolving
disappearing down 
the sucking plug hole,
I summon hope
but it slips away into
thin darkness,
I pull Hope up
Clinging to it
and it circles 
the drain again
disappearing tendrils of me
self immolation drip by drip
despair that focuses on despair
Pain that focuses on pain.

From distress depths
deep in the sewer
I look up, seeing

a descending anchor of hope
fastened to heaven's mercy seat
Strong in God’s love
Secure in the cornerstone
Fastened to the rock

This anchor
emerges through the
bleak suffocation above
Shining like a star
A beacon I can choose
A saviour I can choose,

Now within me
Hope rising
Heart burning
on the inside
I discover
Hope cannot be a feeling
it is a person,
Anticipation in the blackness
Passion igniting
as I see this person, Jesus
the sure hope 
Foundation of faith
Jesus the hope of Glory
Jesus glories’ hope in us.

I stand on
the anchor
secured, home
Darkness surrounds
but somehow I’m
in a different place
Same time
Different place -
Hope full.

Starting Thoughts: How solid is hope? If our future hope relies on money or jobs or even others will we always have a trustworthy hope? Is it possible that only God can be the sustainer of hope?
Poem Topic Tags: #anchor, #darkness, #despair, #hope, #love, #foundation, #rock, #saviour, #security
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #jesus #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,
Spoken word poem on where we find hope.

Heartbeat Questions

From unnatural darkness
in the midst of loss and grief
from hell's silence came a heartbeat
light shattered dark into new belief

Born again in resurrection
Jesus simply stepped through the grave
and walked in surrounding gardens
the risen Saviour alive to save

In a whisper of salvation
Christ approached Mary near the tomb
Eyes not seeing her saviour
His words forever changed her gloom.

In the doubts of disciples meeting
In the fear and in the pain
Jesus appeared to show all
God’s kingdom would now reign.

From unnatural darkness
in a world of hurt and questions
Jesus now also asks us
can my power bring new directions?

Starting Thoughts: Simple moments in a garden against a backdrop of the powerful resurrection. Often we don't hear God's voice or recognise him in our life as we are focused on grief, pain, expectations of what God should be doing or can't do - and then He meets us!
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #cross, #easter, #grief, #hell, #human, #loss, #reality, #redeemed, #resurrection, #risen, #sunday, #sunrise
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Easter- Jesus risen appears to Mary, to the disciples

Between

Standing the darkness
Caught in between
Sacrifice and victory
Living now in the unseen.

Knowing grief - brokenness
Loss and confusion
Saturday’s waiting time
Awareness of being human.

Resurrection Sunday ahead
Joy and celebration
Right now stalled life
Hope seems just illusion.

Trapped in cloying dark
Time spinning to atrophy
Entangled dusk, joyful sunrise
My place of reality.

Jesus survived the same
Three Days of hell’s extremes
Then resurrection changed the game
Death to life, He redeems!

Starting Thoughts: The time between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday seems to ebb in flow a different reality that seems closer to human life. A mix of grief and wonderment, pain and celebration, waiting and ready to move on.
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #cross, #easter, #goodfriday, #grief, #hell, #human, #loss, #reality, #redeemed, #resurrection, #sunday, #sunrise
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A poem reminding of us of the important moment between Good Friday and resurrection Sunday

Once for All

Histories appointed time
Witnesses in groups
scattered around the hill,
Centurions guarding
clutching weapons and discipline
Eyes watching cross nailed body
One of Rome’s three erected punishments,
Disciples grief clustered 
mother, brother, friends, disciples
broken hopes pierced with
shards of possibilities,
strangers there just to watch
nervous after earthquakes
had thrown all to ground
and blackness cloaked the sun,
Mockers stood angrily close
Pointing fingers and bitter tongues,
Serpents in the distance
Priests and Pharisees
politicians and Sadducees
manipulators and blamers
Covering hypocrisy
Pulling the strings of greed
and charlatan history 
to the skull shaped hill,
Watching in awe and dread 
the risen dead
holy people from tombs
laughing and 
walking Jerusalem’s streets.

And the waiting
the waiting
Starts
the waiting
the waiting...

For some this time
Pauses life
Suspends talking, hugging, futures,
For others
relief and business as usual,
For others 
covering the lies
coating the death dealing
in white paint
lime wash on the bodies.

Three days journey
emotions and thoughts
questions and statements,
And Earth shifted again
And Jesus simply walked
from death’s depths,
The power to raise from
one death
once for all
One death
was risen
with the power
to bring life
eternally, always, without fail
for all.

Starting Thoughts: At the dividing time in history - a story, a fable, a truth? Jesus who walked Earth, was crucified and rose from the dead at Easter. For you, once and for all.
Poem Topic Tags: #cross, #death, #easter, #golgotha, #jesus, #pharisees, #power, #resurrection, #risen, #sadducees
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #god, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,
At Easter the power of God in life over death is demonstrated at the cross

Puppet

Let go of the strings,
strings connecting you
to a false God
who you see
as the puppet master,
Controller
where He performs
manipulating you,
commands,
Laws...

He has
cut your strings and
let you go free,
and it pained God
to see you leave
His heart's desire
was still for you,
in all those times 
you turned your back, 
and then you realised
in a soul moment
you were made
in and for God's love,
hearing
His voice calling you,
turning back to 
your heart's home,
Turning to pure love,
Love beyond knowledge
new life love
Love deeper
Wider, more complete 
whole and beautiful
more powerful,
Love that crosses
the bleakness.

He runs to you
arms open
celebrating you
Loving on you,
wearing his searing scars 
because they tell his story,
Scars and holes
telling of powerful
resurrected love
poured out
cascading into your heart
bringing love's foundation,
Release and freedom again
to be true to yourself,
harmony
from the Anointed one
bringing Peace that 
flows inside out
A love that makes you vulnerable
To be an
Army of lovers
not holding back in fear
Of self
Of reputation
but rather being known
for your love
Unfolding love;
gold to your world.


#change, #christian, #controlled, #freedom, #gold, #love, #poem, #poetry, #prodigal, #relationships, #spokenword, #turning, #videos
Spoken word on how God has let us go free, but runs to use arms open wide - Prodical Son

Cascading Life

In life's fountain
dappled reflections
shimmer
Light within light
eternity shines
Loved deep in Christ
Belonging to Jesus
the water of life.

Bible Verses: John 4:14, John 7:38-39, John 1:9, John 1:5, John 12:46, Isaiah 60:1, Luke 1:78, John 11:25-26, Romans 8:38-39
Starting Thoughts: Jesus claimed he was the Water of Life, the Living water. The thirst of our souls can only be satisfied by Him.
Poem Topic Tags: #christ, #deep, #life, #light, #love, #reflection, #water
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The Living water Jesus Christ spoken word

Past Future Fears

Every evil spirit
calls out,
Pulling, teasing the
tenuous fear threads
into willing and unwilling
fertile minds,
multiplying the chaos
with distracting crowd noise
media, screens, speakers
hovering, thrusting, spiralling
connecting the bleak web
Deceit deforms the humane
collapsing hope
suffocating reason,
sometimes just silence
becomes the lies
and the future becomes
the past.

The sun turned dark
the moon dealt blood,
the earth heaved
in an earthquake storm,

and the lies
tried to be the silence
shutting the word of God
the Jesus truth,
closing life itself.

The sundial
spun three days
of fear chains
over a world
that didn't know it
was waiting.
Chokehold manacles
bruising hopes and dreams.

259,200 seconds
ticked towards eternity
Enough time for
despair, perceived reality,
to vulture circle
the disciples
questions spiralling,
rotting hopes
like the body.

And above, outside
and beyond time,
God spoke
in a power beyond
black holes,
Jesus rose
death died
tombstone rolled
time resumed
and Jesus
danced a million
unfolding stories
into human futures.

Starting Thoughts: Fears crowded in, the sun bled, earthquakes shattered and the Christ event that would change our futures occurred.
Poem Topic Tags:
#christ, #cross, #death, #easter, #fears, #future, #hopes, #jesus, #media, #power, #resurrection, #silence, #truth,
Posting Tags: #artist, #christian, #creativewriting, #instawrite, #poems, #poetry, #poetsofinstagram, #poetryisnotdead, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #spilledink, #spokenword, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife, #writerscommunity, #writerscorner, #writersofinstagram,
The past has become the release of your future at Easter  - poetry spoken word

Beginning

Behind the brick walls
lured to the shadows
living in the greyness
looking in the questions
wondering am I just taking space
searching in the choices.
Before the walls
Before the pain
Before the cheapening of your life
Before your ideas about yourself
Before "I’m a good person"
Before knowing there is more,
love existed
because God is,
The Creator’s love.

And now, this moment, 
know You were made 
for a reason,
to experience 
a voice
a call
deep into your heart
into your life
into the depths of your soul
into your dreams.

A call from Love
beyond human plays
beyond human songs
beyond words and relationships 
beyond betrayals and boredom
beyond success and failure.

Not a cold call
a prank call
a spam call
a blocked call
a Facebook invite.

Warm it comes
from a God who created
in love,
gave His life in love,
wants to know you
wants to show you
wants to birth
in you new purpose.

You are worth dying for
because Jesus did,
You are His loving,
You are who He wants,
You are who He
will celebrate,
You are who He
is crazy in love with,
You are who Heaven
will sing about.

For you were made 
for relationship with God
anytime, anywhere, anyplace,
today
Christ died and rose for you.

This Love waiting, heart seeking
not because of what you have done
not because of what you haven’t 
Before the world knew you
He saw you,
He desires to be closer 
than your next breath,
To love freedom
into your life,
Dawning, birthing
a new future purpose.

Walk this new journey
Walk into newness of life
Walk into relationship
Walk into love
beginning with the real,
knowing who you are in Jesus,
living from this 
resurrected Jesus love
Walk into who
you are created to be.
Live love!

Prompt
Beginning - if God was crazy in love with you would he do anything to bring you to His heart?
Beginning God

Sneaky Jesus

Not to the powerful
or political centre of influence
but to a small town
born in a manger…
sneaky Jesus

played as a human
worked as a human
unknown
thirty years,
fully human
sneaky Jesus

at a party
first miracle
quietly changed the water
into the best tasting wine,
just being helpful,
sneaky Jesus

not a look
just a short spoken word
"If you are without sin
cast the first stone”
and the accusers left
the prostitute alone,
sneaky Jesus

gathered the one’s
not wanted
not seen as leaders
not powerful
as His disciples,
sneaky Jesus

said words
told stories
that changed lives
sneaky Jesus

Then Satan
trapped Him
whipped, hung,
Tortured, killed
and danced loudly,
but quietly
after three days of nothing
just walking out to
the grinding
of a displaced stone
cascading thunder
into Satan's world
Jesus rose,
Destroying death
unexpected
supernatural,
sneaky Jesus!

Starter Thoughts: Jesus did not do things with a great big fanfare. His way of approaching life was often on the quiet or from a different angle. Sneaky Jesus!
Poetry Topic Tags: #changed, #cross, #death, #disciples, #jesus, #prostitute, #resurrection, #satan, #supernatural, #christian, #poetry, #poems, #videos, #spokenword, #victory, #wine

Forever Surprise

Hopes
And futures 
were stifled
seared in blood,
Seamed in death,
A tomb for God,
Darkness deceived
Decreed it had won,
And the watchers,
Hurt believers
Wondered-
What had happened?
Hardness descended,
Rescinded dreams.
Jesus, blood given, 
body broken, life taken.

Then... Jesus... Rose!
Lord of all.

The covenant
Promise,
Precious Son given.
Jesus paid 
Purity only God can give.
A promise
A forever oneness.

He honours
He loves
He blesses
He calls
Gives freedom,
Oh yes!
celebrate the coming
Celebrate the rising
Oh yes!
Celebrate holy 
communion,
God with us
Oh yes!
God in us.
Oh yes!
We belong.
Oh yes!
In His name,
The name of Jesus.

Starting Thoughts: Celebrating through the worship of communion, a wonderful saviour the resurrected Lord who died and rose defeating death.
Poem Topic Tags:
#celebration, #communion, #cross, #easter, #hopes, #jesus, #promises, #resurrection, #worship
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Worship through communion the power and love of Jesus Poetry Spoken Word

Human Nature

Human nature
Scars and beauty,
Seeping decay
Shadows across Earth's face
Living to rescue one moment
Suicide bomb hate the next.

Life suffers:
In death, luxury, instant world,
focus on the me,
Fear, Pain 
I am right!

But there was a suffering
A history eternity moment
Connecting 
Earth to life,
Us to pure love 
Us to the judge,
to hope
to freedom.
Us to God.
A faith to live for,
Beyond the Earth 
Beyond an expanding universe
Beyond everyday, today and tomorrow.

Live this life
Love the rescue
of your soul.
Human Nature Soul Christian Poem

My Spirit

My spirit
Extol 
Ever praise
The One
Highest above,
You are
The Great I Am,
Beyond time,
Jesus
Adored Lord,
Worthy 
Complete 
Wholeness and Truth,
I worship You
In the hardness of the cross
In the love of the cross
In the joy of the cross
In the power of the cross
In the moment of the cross.
Here and now 

I worship you
Here and now.

Starting Thoughts: The Cross is a display of the character and personality of God, a God willing to love in both the hard and gentle, in sacrifice and power.
Poem Topic Tags: #cross, #holyspirit, #iam, #joyful, #love, #power, #praise, #spirit, #timeless, #worship
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Spoken word poem worshipping the God of the cross - of love

A Breath

It is a breath
Moments of life
Heart flickers.

Thoughts in time
suspended in
circles of praise,
Worship
of God
Before time
Alpha
The End
Omega.

Worship
changes the soul
challenges
Holy Spirit whispers
centering towards Jesus
Who is he?

Where do you stand
kneel, hang
before his cross?

Where do you hide?
Retreat, ignore, block,
threaten, plead
before his resurrection?

How will you respond
to his love,
call, questions?

Hole in the Side

He could of come alive 
with a new body.

As Incredible power burned death,
Universe fabric was turned,
Chaos reconstructed 
into new realms of infinity.  
Jesus rose, alive.

But his love
Is such
That his body is still scarred
Perfect love
with the scars of pain, 
holes of suffering. 

Not a good look.

But does God care
about the outward, 
about being the fashion,
the image, the thin fake?
In pouring out his soul
God's love knows you
The real depths of you
inside hidden thoughts,
cloaked habits.

Put your hand in the wound
The amazing scar and see,
Touch.
Respond to this love, 
Reality.

Call like Thomas, 
"My Lord, my God"
Call like Thomas, 
"My Lord, my God"
Discover His passion.
Holes in the Side Christian Poem

The Passion

The passion
One week
in history,
Time shortens itself
Focuses
on life
Living hope,
Death
Living hope,
Celebration
Living hope,
Struggles
Living hope,
Just seven days
changing
four seasons in one week,
Ending with
Life Power over death,
Fears of worst death
shattered with Pure light,
Death destroyed by invincible
courageous love.

Easter
One week in history
A thousand years collapsed to a day,
One week holding
eternal futures for you.

Easter the fiesta!
Christ's freedom.

#celebration, #christian, #cross, #easter, #freedom, #hope, #jesus, #light, #passion, #poem, #poetry, #resurrection, #spokenword, #time, #video
The crowds line the streets to celebrate for Passion Week. Poem

The Answer

The Answer
Grew with us
Deepened his heart
In the midst of humans,
Laughed
Skinned knees
Encountered friends, bullies
Soul-mates, misunderstandings
Compassion entwined
Its roots in his soul
So deep
His fate sealed
In His love,
Carried Him
To the cross
To hang
World’s reality,
To stand
through time
In the gap
Death to life.
Dark to celebration.

#answers, #carpenter, #celebration, #christian, #cross, #god, #jesus, #love, #poems, #poetry, #spokenword, #videos
finding_purpose_answers_life_poem

Uncomplete Dark

Complete Dark
total Blackness
Surrounds 
suffocating my future,
Tangled invisible roots
leaden into my soul
Causing rips in hope,
And I've known
God,
Known
passion and power,
times and places
of life fullness,

Did Jesus know all this?

Birth in a manger
Bringing death on the
streets of Ramah,
Did he know as he grew up?
Was there guilt?

Sly cutting remarks
about his birth, family
other children teasing
his beginnings.
Was there doubt?

Life of a carpenter 
cuts, bruising 
annoying customers
thinking, Am I in the right place?
When will God use me?
Will I be ready?
Moments of Vision
in the temple
Challenging religion, 
displacing prejudice, 
When will God use me?
I will get ready!

Baptism, wild man in a river
the heavens open
Jesus hears the father’s voice
a sense of release
a passion calling,
Am I "I Am?"

Calling out the authorities
religious zealots
Loss of friends, betrayal,
Hard words from silk tongues
Did he stand numb
Questioning, what is the point?
Did he know the dark?

Yes!
Buried, drowned,
beaten, crushed,
in death’s valley
he was there, knows there,
willingly there,
He knew the dark…
Did He ask where is God?

Then He simply rose
an incredible power
directly exercised
walking from tomb's extinction
through life’s chains
through death’s sting
through racism and religion
through sin, fear and loneliness,

Simply continuing His love;
cherishing Mary in garden chat -
gardener becomes the saviour
in Her eyes,
walking dusty roads
with two conversing -
until they finally recognise Him,
Twice appearing
miraculous materialisation to the disciples
inviting cold reality - “Put your hand in my side, Thomas”
Restoring the fallen
as they first fish, then miraculously fish 
and breakfast on Galilee shore,
then and today Jesus asks,
“Do you love me?”

“Feed my Lambs!"

Starting Thoughts: What were the questions that Jesus faced? How did they change through His life? Were they the same questions we ask?
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The Questions we face and Ask - Did Jesus ask these? Spoken Word Poem
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