Category: Other Poetry

The Seven Thunders crack the seal,
And Spirit rolls the stone away,
As heaven’s bells begin to peal,
And life o’er death will now hold sway.

He’s risen and the dawn appears—
Dispels Old Eden’s night-time gloom,
And with the dark retreats our fear,
For death is not our lasting doom.

His promise is that we will rise
With Him to sing our Father’s praise
And live with Him in Paradise,
Restored on other side of grave.

We’ll gather with the ones we love
To celebrate in endless joy
As Eden’s joined with world above
To live with Mary and her boy. 

May I be, Lord, Your mountain wreathed in smoke
Where You came down to purify my heart,
As You in me live Your commands you spoke—
Make me who You intended from the start.

On my heart chisel words of your commands
As in me rises image made anew,
And You for my Old Adam make amends
So I am fresh as new creation’s dew.

May rising Son my mountain bathe in light
As You in me arise to greet Your dawn
And give to me Your own eternal life,
For which in my heart I have always longed.

Forever may my mountain Your heart please,
As Spirit’s smoke will always ‘round me wreathe. 

We wake and see new wine from mountains drip
Red-colored by His Blood on Calv’ry shed,
And we from chalice of His Blood can sip
To drink His life is risen from the dead.

Around us all the earth is made anew
As truth and goodness seep in every crack,
And lesions made by sin fill with His dew
From spring-time morning—gives us Eden back—

Yet not the same but better than before:
Now on the saving side of Mary’s “yes”
With heaven’s blessings poured on us galore,
And earth once more in heaven now can rest.

For o’er her mountains clouds have rolled away,
And love of Trinity in her holds sway. 

Make us a paradise within
     That we may be sin-free;
Make Eden in us new again
     By You on New Life Tree.

May we eat fruit you offer us—
     Your Body and Your Blood—
To hearts in You place all their trust
     And stand where Mary stood.

May we with her on New Life gaze—
     See through to empty tomb—
And know from death you came to save
     Through Your birth from her womb.

We see New Eden made secure
     By love to us you give:
From Trinity comes our sin’s cure
     As with You we will live. 

We’ve asked to see You with our earthly eyes,
To touch You with our fleshly human hands,
And then You come to us and we’re surprised.

In bread and wine You come to us disguised
By grain and grape are grown by Your earth’s land.
We’ve asked to see You with our earthly eyes.

So common is the pearl that is our prize—
This bread and wine seem not to be so grand—
And then You come to us and we’re surprised.

No longer do we fall for Devil’s lies,
For his deceit at last we understand.
We’ve asked to see you with our earthly eyes.

Humility from you can make us wise;
Before your truth our pride can never stand,
And then you come to us, and we’re surprised.

For all of us You’re born and came to die,
And rise to come again at Your command.
We’ve asked to see You with our earthly eyes,
And then You come to us, and we’re surprised. 

Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord
That we may eat and drink your charity,
As with our body, blood, we You adore.

For to You we are tied with crimson cord—
We in your priesthood share humility—
Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord.

A victim we become as Your life poured—
In heart of each Your sacrifice can see—
As with our body, blood, we You adore.

Our sacrifice for You is spirits poor
That others see You with more clarity—
Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord.

Through us Your Spirit for the world will soar
To fill the world with Holy Trinity,
As with our body, blood, we You adore.

Your hand in us takes up Your Spirit’s sword,
And we become who we are meant to be—
Your Body, Blood are offered for us Lord,
As with our body, blood, we You adore. 

Rain coming down from evening sky is pink
Against the fading sunset’s afterglow,
And with that sunset sin in death will sink 
As in the night Himself within each sows.

For dead of night is anything but dead
As new life in each soul begins to grow,
And new life comes from Him by whom we’re fed—
Is seen in dawn by heaven’s morning glow.

When we arise we see why pink is rain
That covers earth, fades into night-time dark,
For He takes in Himself our sin-caused pain
And washes clean with Blood our Satan’s mark.

So in baptismal wash by Him we’re bathed,
And our new self with Him then He will raise. 

Awake at last, the nightmare’s o’er;
My true self I’ve become–
No longer in the Devil’s pow’r,
     Earth’s now my heaven’s home.

For earth I see is taken in—
     Is heaven’s ante-room;
At last we’re free from pow’r of sin;
     Light pierces earthly gloom.

His dawn has broken through at last,
     And life in me prevails.
I now with joy can sing and laugh,
     And Rachel does not wail.

At last I can now love myself,
     For I know God loves me;
He has restored my Eden health;
     From Devil I’m set free. 

We live in but the daybreak of our lives
Where light and darkness are together mixed
And pray each day will grow salvation’s light
As in us life anew forever quicks.

May night in our new dawn forever pass
As break of day lights Him who’s raised from dead,
And we see death will not forever last,
So future, full of hope, we will not dread.

May light increase as we walk toward the east
With family, friends, illumined on the way,              
As journey we toward heaven’s wedding feast
Where Father’s Word forever has His say.

In heart of Church is that for which we’ve longed—
His truth in light of ever-brightening dawn. 

You gather us from sunrise in the East,
When Adam, Eve in Garden still were pure,
‘Til Eden’s East sees sunset in the West,
And we know our salvation is secure.

Between the two we’re taught to live the Truth
By You who are the Way, the Truth, the Life
And see You on the Cross as final proof
That Your love in our darkness is our light.

The light of dawn in Eden is the same
As light of sunset dims the western sky
That’s colored by the Spirit with You came
To Eden’s East to bring New Eden nigh.

Your death in sunset brings New Eden’s dawn:
New life for which we have since Eden longed.