Haiku 1 – …from the block

Bright green leaves moving
Over a golden beauty
Subtle and sublime

Asleep in the sun
Adam breathes as God weaves Light
While sweet Eve rises

Haiku 3 – Spirit

A Breath of air moves
Silently through the desert
All it touches lives

Haiku 4 – Blue into Blue

Blue looks into blue
He sees tears, smiles and himself
Eternity waits.

Father 1

Looking into the dark I see…
Emptiness.
And yet –
I know it is not void

There is a hope

A
                Yearning
                                                Love

There is Father crying out to His creation

Father 2

Father speaks
And
The world becomes

Man speaks and the world breaks.

Father 3

Father watches Man
Man comes and Man goes
Father hurts with His love
And Man still goes
And goes
And goes

There is nothing in Man
But
Father is patient…Father knows.

And then –

David.
         Killer.
                Adulterer.
                          Crier in the dark.

And Father says –

Here is a Man after my own heart
Here is a Man after Man’s own heart
Passion, passion, passion

And Father says:

He is who I will be –

Only I will perfect him
He will be perfect in me.

Crier In The Dark 1

Lambs and goats moving on the rocks
Child watches them

Lambs and Goats barely exist
Child loves them

Moving
                Living
                                Birthing

Lambs and goats pay little heed

Child guards them –
                             Fiercely

Learning in loneliness their need
Learning in loneliness his need

safety, provider, guardian

Trust.

The lost ones cry to Child in the dark
Child burns through Lion and Bear – Saviour

Child learns from lamb –

And he becomes crier in the dark
Arms stretched upward
Pulling God to Earth and demanding –

Save Me!

I Am

I am
More
Than a
Shadow

More
Than a
Phantom
Past

I am
In
Memories

You
Will hear
My voice
In laughter

You will
See my
Tears
In rain

Moonlight
Shadows
Race through
Trees
And I am
There

My lips
In the breeze
Brush over
And
Through –
Caressing

I am
Rays of dawn
Pouring
Across the room
From window
To
Bed

Look
And there
I will
Be

You
cannot
Miss me

I am
More than
An echo
Of past days

More then
Remembered

I am
I am
I am

And

I will be again.

Dad

Young man grows
And feels the emptiness

Something missing
Someone missing

There is a black shadow
Fading in the darkening hour
There is a shoulder
Without the guiding hand

A no one with power
To say –

“You do not want to be me”

Hands

So much has been made
Of
The kiss,
The caress
The intertwining of two
Into one

Me –
Nothing is more electrifying
Than the first time
Hand touches hand

Fingertips brush fingertips

Like souls leaping across the breach

Signal Returned

Words once streamed
Spiraling out of the depths
To paper

And it was said –

They were beacons in the night
Searching for life

Then – nothing.

Now the dust stirs
A signal once sent out
returns

And it was said –

That the truth was found
halo’d in gold
May it continue – everlasting

David & Bathsheba

David’s eyes dance across the rooftops
And land upon the golden beauty

David cries for the need
Falls to his knees
And he prays

“God help me”

David looks to the beauty
And lives for the moment unending

Her eyes are trust
And deep oiled olive wood
He stares forever
And he prays –

“God strengthen me”

Slayer of bear
Slayer of lion
Slayer of man

Slain by softness

Harmony in curves
Shattering faith
The crack echoes through
Heaven and Earth
And he prays –

“God stop me”

David and Bathsheba
(W)Rapt as one
King fallen into sweetness
Kisses stolen and stolen again
Shepherd’s lamb is in his heart
And he prays –

“God forgive me”

And God forgave.