On Tabor (Jesus on the Heights)

A song, using several of my poems stitched together, as lyrics.

Company Business

 A song using my poem, Company Business, as lyrics for the song.

Tabor

On Tabor shone an awesome light  

when love, the law, and prophet met

above the Armageddon plain

and people deep in darkness kept.

Then he descended in God’s plan

to be in our forsaken plight

death tested on Moriah’s height.

Visitation

Barely a woman,

sown with the one seed

and first fruit of the

tree of life, bearing

death's own destruction,

she strides Judah's hills

to one thought barren

now late in season

ripe with leaping life

crying out wild joy.

Seven Cities of the Apocalypse

Markers on the Turkish road
Dead cities with fallen walls
Breached by earthquake and siege
Marble bones of Greece and Rome
Will and can not quit the fields
Bought with blood, built up in stone

Rising Wind

Rising wind
Falling fire
Life abiding
Soul’s desire

Word speaking
Babel cure
Earth renewing
Spirit pure

Claim us
Cleanse us
Make us
Yours

Olivet

To Olivet, where psalms were sung
before the kiss of death had stung,
where he had healed with but a touch
the servant’s ear that Peter cut,
the risen Lord returned that day,
gave friends the charge to preach and pray,
then to heaven was lifted up
to set the place where we will sup.