Triangle Flag - Memorial Day

There's a triangle flag displayed on my wall;

dark blue with white stars

like when daylight is gone

and you see past here - to beyond.

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Many souls have served

beneath that flag

when it was unfurled in the field,

to later lie beneath it spread,

in rest, they all are healed.

A symbol only,

of unity,

that becomes more precious still,

with each new life that gives itself

of it's own free will.

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There 's a triangle flag displayed on my wall;

dark blue with white stars

like when daylight is gone,

and you see past here - to beyond.

Morning Sun - spring

The morning sun is spilling over the landscape now;

It's cream and butter spreading its way over grass and ground;

up the tall buildings of the concrete world.

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Absorbed by the hunger and thirst of the living -

setting its clocks by its warm announcement

that once again life is on the rise.

Session - Spring

I just had another session

in my garden of possibilities,

taking care of problems,

plucking out all the weeds;

but what would my garden ever be

if all I did was remove and weed? -

a barren plot must cry for seed,

a need I must supply.

I'll sow with love and plant with care

and time will fertilize,

until the day when the weeds that are there

no longer have room to rise.

Mary - Easter

How could the people gathered 'round

in this crowded place

know the feeling of the full eyes

of God upon my face?

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and all of the acceptance

from this giver of the Sacred Grace,

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pouring out His lavish Love

allowing me to live and share -

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I poured my tears upon His feet

and wiped them with my hair.

Luke 7:38, John 11:2

Need - spring

Inside we're still children,

needing to be loved,

it's something that we can't outgrow

or ever get too much of;

Born with a hunger into this world,

our hearts can be deceived;

love is life's true answer,

and God holds all we need.

Wake Up, O Spring - Easter

Wake up, O Spring!

and spread your arms wide,

your face upturned to steadily rise

toward the warmth of the sun

and the God who has given

life to all who in newness have risen.

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Let all the shadows that fell before

be but libation that passion has poured

upon all creation which is newly restored

to the glory,

the glory,

of the immortal Lord.

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Wake up, O spring!

your slumber is passed,

your day of revival is here -

at last!

Earthy Season - Spring

Spring grows up from the ground,

an inch at a time I've found;

first the grass, then pinfeather leaves

working their way from the branches of trees...

fall begins at the top of the landscape

and winter falls from higher still,

but spring is such an earthy season,

I love it and I always will.