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Excerpt from "Spring New Year in the Secret Garden"

Saturated in the pooling metamorphosis
Of a gracefully mesmerizing butterfly,
The new year now begins with Nissan.
Spring showers mystify all organic life forms
Making way for the blooming
Of hope filled springs of living water.
Oh, how angelic is the blossom of the lilies
In the first of months, Abib
The sun rises in various shades of God's glory
And sets in transcendent palettes of divine
Victory, making all things new.

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Piece taken from the literary work in progress
"Love Letters on the Law: A Journey Through the Law of Moses"

Inspired by Exodus 12:2

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Excerpt from "The Yielding of Holiness"

I hope
That our unfailing love
Cries the kind of tears
That heal every kind of hurt,
As those who overcome
Limp away with thoughts of Jacob's sinew.
IAM Israel.

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Piece taken from the literary work in progress
"Love Letters on the Law: A Journey Through the Law of Moses"

Inspired by Genesis 32:32

Keep wading in the waters of wonder my fellow poets....

Cries of the soul......

You are seen.
You are known.
You are loved.
Anyone who sees this and can relate to this statement, this was for you.

Excerpt from "The Seasons of Fruitfulness"

In communion,
By Your Fiery Spirit,
Let us be fruitful,
And multiply,
Out of the abundance
Of our love;
Falling like leaves without end.

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Piece taken from the literary work in progress
"Love Letters on the Law: A Journey Through the Law of Moses"

Inspired by Genesis 1:28

Thoughtful Thursday Peace
"Secret Sacred Love"

Away to the spirit realm
With purpose I am enlightened.
Played like an instrument
I am the notes of worship
Arranged on a staff.
Its lines are the deepest
Forms of intimacy,
And it's spaces are the purest
Forms of light.
Early in the morning
I awaken to a dream
To see a peculiar wave
In the shape of a face
My feet are cleansed
By the hands of gentle rushing waters
Now my footprint travels farther faster
Back toward the beginning
Of our unfailing love.
Bring all things
Again to my remembrance
For now I am sure
That I always knew You.
Alas, help me to fully engage
With Your presence here
In this, the place of secret sacred love.

Thoughtful Thursday Peace
"Everlasting"

Only You can quiet
My rambunctious spirit,
And peacfully still
My seemingly chaotic strength,
Taking me back to the beginning
From the end. And so,
In slow motion I turn
Under the influence of Light
Heliotropic as the sunflower.
I take shade from storm damage
As resistant as the ancient Ginkgo
Like a tree that has grown beyond time.
In attenuation of my circumstances
I am planted in an alluvium filled soil
Of unconditional love,
Like the seed of a living fossil.
I begin but do not end
Vita Perpetua
Everlasting

Thoughtful Thursday Peace
"Communion"

Let us prepare to share
Another evening meal together
My Love.
Bring to me
Fresh Fruit from Your garden,
The bread that is Your Life,
And the choice meat of Promise.
Let us discern
With every seed available
How to replenish the earth.
Plant in me Your life giving Word,
Whose instructions gently guide me Into proper preparation.
Let us sample
The many flavors of wisdom,
And dine
On several courses of understanding.
Let desert feature
Only the finest of revelations,
And as we close
Let us cleanse our pallets with humility.
May the recipe You have given me
Be easily multiplied to overflow
For the sake of the visitors
You will send my way
And know that with each meal
I am reminded,
Like a hopeless romantic,
That we are joined forever as one.
As I feed on Your creation
I am delightfully filled
With your good pleasures.