Behold your brother
Remove the plank from your eye
Before his small speck
written in response to RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #Challenge #146 – “Behold” and “Eye”, and inspired by Jesus’s teaching in the gospel of Luke at 6:42
On fire for Jesus
Heart ablaze in the Spirit
I was born to burn
written in response to this week’s prompt at Haiku Horizons
Sly Accuser
Ignore his imprecations
Do not ape his ways
prompted by Ronovan’s Word of the Week: Imprecation (noun), a spoken curse.
Cursed after the fall
The land remains beautiful
Restoration signs
A new Heaven and new Earth
The hand of the Creator
‘To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, “You must not eat from it,” ‘Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.‘
– Genesis 3:17
‘Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.‘
– Revelation 21:1
written in response to this week’s RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt (Challenge #145) – “Beautiful” and “Curse”
O to rest e’ermore
Where the heavens drop their dew
Green meadows abound
written in response to this week’s prompt at Haiku Horizons, and drawing on Zechariah 8:12Zechariah 8:12
Middle day of three
First death claimed him, settling debts
By third, He was free
Day 15 of Na/GloPoWriMo2017 falls on Easter Saturday, and the NaPoWriMo.net challenge is to write a poem that reflects on the nature of being in the middle of something.
Caught in eddy pools
Swimming against life’s currents
Taken by the flow
Find the river’s course
As it flows through the desert
Oasis of life
written in response to this week’s prompt – “swim” – at Haiku Horizons
Eyes cast in wonder
Spies enter the Promised Land
Jericho in sight
Rahab offered sanctuary
Her family offered mercy
written in response to this week’s RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #144 – “Wonder” and “Spy”, and inspired by Joshua 2
Even in laughter
The heart may ache and cry out,
A masked face rejoice;
Yet sorrow’s dulled eyes peer through –
Tears of grief or pain, not joy
a tanka written in response to Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #28 – “laugh” and “cry”, and drawing in part on Proverbs 14:13
Consistent chagrin
Yet forgiven by God’s grace –
Overcoming joy
written in response to the RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge – #143: “Chagrin” and “Joy”
