Category: Other Poetry

The Holy Spirit picks His fruit
From Cross through grave that’s empty now,
For He who grew from Jesse’s root
Has risen to fulfill His vow.

He promised He would live again
And come to us in bread and wine
That cleanse us of our mortal sin:
His Body, Blood born from His vine.

When we remember His command,
His-once-for-all-time here appears;
On Spirit’s breath with Father’s hand
To us on altar brings Son there.

He enters us when we partake
And eat and drink His risen life
To give to others for their sakes:
We bring to all His heaven’s light. 

In Eucharist He always asks of us:
“Who do you say on altar that I am?”
Invites us to in Him place all our trust
To come inside and take away our sin. 

In this we His eternal Person know–
Surrender to the One who gives us all–
Allow Him in us to forgiveness grow
And through us to Christ Jesus others call.

When faith in Him on altar in us lives,
Will blossom in us fullness of His love;
With hope a surety He to us gives
That someday we’ll abide with Him above.

His Eucharist is pledge forever more
That He gives grace so we may Him adore. 

The glories of the Cross I sing
     When high and lifted up;
For Jesus, heaven’s anthems ring
     When on His life we sup.

He’s here in bread and wine made His
     In Risen Life for all;
We now know truth of all He is—
     God’s Son on whom we call.

He speaks but once for all our time:
     “This is my Body, Blood,”
And we in Him new life there find
     For we are understood.

Like us the Father’s Son became
     Except for Adam’s sin;
We’re by the Second Adam claimed,
     And we can live again.

We eat and drink His Risen Life,
     Find Him and Whose we are–
Discover He’s the world’s true light
     Announced by Bethl’m’s Star.

In each of us His life now shines
     Through Cross raised on a hill,
And joy we know is His new wine:
     He all our dreams fulfills. 

The clap of thunder over Cross foretold
A washing of all earth in Jesus’ Blood,
And birth of Eden New from Eden Old
As Cross stands where the Tree of Life once stood.

Our Father breathes His Spirit to come down—
Through Father’s Son gives Paradise new birth—
And Son then rises over world with crown
Of King o’er life anew for all the earth.

And all the mountains, valleys, trees, and streams
Join with earth’s creatures scattered near and far
In joyful song, dispels temptations dream
As dawn shows Eden’s gate no longer barred.

With thunder comes the Son’s Baptismal rain
To bury in His grave earth’s sin and pain. 

Why do we long for hills so far away
And for the sunset disappears behind
To bring the night that with us never stays–
Prepares for sun to rise o’er humankind?

The birth and death of every day reminds
Each one of us of his mortality
And of our longing for new life we find
When dawn bathes hills in new light that’s death free.

Come, Jesus, with your Resurrection’s dawn
To mercy bring to all of us below:
Your heaven’s light for which we’ve always longed
And can on earth through You begin to know.

Our longing for those hills so far away
Is longing for your dawn of heaven’s day. 

We build our walls around our Jerichos
And think they will suffice to save our sin,
But deep within our hearts we surely know
That Jesus and His Angels always win.                        

The Devil tempts us all to build those walls
And grow within his world our mortal sins,
Yet we can hear inside when Jesus calls
To of our sins repent and let Him in. 

We open gate a crack to peak without,
And Michael’s hosts with Jesus inside pour
To cast out sin and with it all our doubt:  
On Spirit’s breath we to our Father soar.

Our walls with Him forever tumble down,
And we in freedom at His feet are found.   

All families here are in God’s heart,
Each one a likeness of His love,
As in between He takes His part
To turn us back to Him above.

Begotten in the Family First,
Through Mary, One of us becomes,
Removes from us Old Eden’s curse:
Of Holy Family He’s the Son.

His Naz’reth Family mediates
Those Three above to earth below,
As Holy Spirit saturates
Our hearts with Father’s love we know.

For into death Son takes our sin,
Restores in human families here
God’s likeness, and we can again
Live in His love without death’s fear. 

The morning dew now spreads His Blood
     O’er all the earth made new;
His crimson drops become a flood
     To all the world imbue–

Imbue with Him who’s raised from dead
     By Spirit, covers earth,
Brings Body, Blood with which we’re fed;
     From grave we know new birth–

We’re born from womb that’s Mary’s heart
     Whose “Yes” gave Him to us:
Gave all of Eden His new start
     When we in Him now trust–

A trust that gives us Mary’s “Yes,”
     And we her children are,
As with her Son we all are blessed;
     He comes here from afar–

And from afar He heaven brings
     Up close to cover all;
Now we can hear the angels sing
     Who also on Him call.

For dew that is His Blood unites
     All heaven, earth in Him
To wash away all Eden’s blight:
     Become what should have been. 

You use this world to beauty show
     To eyes that want to see
That glimpse of heaven we can know
     Some day for us will be.

For we live here in shadow land,
     Yet You let Son break through–
Reveals to us your saving hand
     To make creation new.

Its beauty takes our breath away
     As Holy Spirit’s wind
In hearts made new will have Your way
    And cleanse us of our sin.

Then morning light o’er world will break,
And everything is new:
Our hearts again will never ache
     As love in us breaks through. 

The water changed to wine o’er us is poured
To transform us from living death to life,
And in the Holy Spirit we now soar.

He enters us through Mary’s open door
To bring within our darkness His new light.
The water changed to wine o’re us is poured.

We welcome in us light with spirits poor
As dawn breaks through the sin that caused our night,
And in the Holy Spirit we now soar. 

We enter world to live forever more
Where all our wrongs are by His love made right.
The water changed to wine o’er us is poured.

And Son, for us on Cross all our sins bore,
Shows forth in each of us His deathly might,
And in the Holy Spirit we now soar. 

In thankfulness and praise Him we adore
As our souls bathe in heavenly delight.
The water changed to wine o’er us is poured,
And in the Holy Spirit we now soar.