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Almost Worn
Tattered leaves of life___
Still ageless
Through eternity
Wrapped in the leather
That breathes__
Page upon page
The history of Christianity
Chosen by his
own
As a guide
Through the
Garden
To Golgotha
Past the Gospels
And finally
Revelation
Where transport
Of the Living
Experience Rapture
Beyond
Our wildest Hopes.
Jfrancis
10.31.2011
The Battle
(a
Statement of Faith)
HolyGround
Is HolyLand___
Even to the dust
On the feet
Of G-d’s people.
Let the world
Turn its face from Him
And rage in fury
As He brings time
To an end
And eternity
To a beginning___
The battle is His
And His people.
Jfrancis
11.9.2011
Light and Darkness
Hating Jews___,
A way of life for many.
Reason seldom knows why
Beyond usury.
Israel’s enduring legacy
And marriage___
Wrapped in poetic expression
Gives Jewish life and family
Success beyond mere chance
And most of humanity
Live and die
In ignorance born
Of a G-dless nature.
Jfrancis
11.21.2011
I Love You
In truth___
Words hold magic
Far beyond
The heart’s understanding.
Power
To move blood
Through the body
At breakneck speed
While trembling
In wonderment,
Not believing
The breadth of feelings
For one person
Who holds your heart
In their hands,
Is both beautiful
And G-d given___.
Who can explain
Why Love
Comes and goes.
Jfrancis
Love’s Endearment
Real Love
Shows itself
Far above
The value of diamonds
And gold___
When these
Turn to dust
And memories of them
No longer fire the imagination,
Love will last___
Past the edges
Of His universe
Which expands forever,
Beyond frail feelings
Of man’s understanding
And the human heart.
True Love
Will die with G-d
Somewhere
beyond the stars.
Jfrancis
11.30.2011
Touring Auschwitz
The evil within
Is not the heart___
But the soul
Where the Spirit of G-d
Does not inhabit.
Jfrancis 1.29.2012
Crying Out
Mortal
and lost
And
hopeful of mercy
To the
saving
Of
their soul
As many
today
Who
wander
About
its cobbled streets
Seeking
a G-d
Who has
forever
Sought
them.
Jfrancis
2.14.2012
The Dead of Winter
Refers
Not to
life and death
On a
human scale
But to
a view
Of life
From
your living room
When
winter
Is
almost gone
And
one’s patience
Is way
past gone,
Almost
dead.
Jfrancis
2.26.2012
No Peace for Sale
Peace comes
With breathlessness
For the years coming___
When nights were long
And suns rise slowly
And death punctuates both.
Now
No peace is still
Not for sale.
Interested parties . . . .
Negotiations open
Contact realtor
Divine Properties
Jerusalem.
Jfrancis
3.3.2012
Israel and American Pie
(trusting the u.s.a.)
The blood that binds
Jew and American
Flows unabridged
From heartland
To Jerusalem
Over the broken road
Of American politics.
Our strength
Is in G-d___,
Friends come and go,
Their footsteps guided
By One
Greater than they.
Jfrancis
3.8.2012
Christ @ the Checkpoint
(freedom replaces Islam)
Choose now
Choose Christ
Your only barrier
To eternal life
Is rejection
Of the one
Who died
That you may live
Forever___
Black, white, yellow, red
And all shades between
The colors
Of our rainbow___
You can live,
So why wait for death?
Jfrancis
3.17.2012
Gilding the Interloper
The dusty Bedouin
Of wandering ways
Through wadis___
Parched and barren
Comes forth
A “Palestinian"
Molded
Of desert grass,
Sand . . . . .
And
The Eden deception:
Craftiness,
The magic
Of his holy word,
Gold leaf
Hammered to fineness
Covering
A history of blood.
Jfrancis
3.27.2012
Coming
(the
new Jerusalem)
When cares
Weight a nation
And shadowy fear
Surrounds the heart___,
Time summons
‘the New Jerusalem’.
On a warrior plain
Armies stand
Damascus lies behind
In consumption’s ruin,
Ahead___ Jerusalem,
The world’s prize
For destruction’s hope.
Soon the horse’s bridle
And blood
For the measuring
As they sweep
To a holy city
Where lies their calling.
There the people wait
As long before___,
In silence and despair,
Of memories
When Rome came.
Now___
The holy roman empire
Arrives with vengeance
For sacking of the city,
Jewel of G-d’s creation.
Can disaster
come on the wind?
Can death pass over
Once again
Or Messiah
Save his kin?
Jfrancis
4.18.2012
How Love Glows
Love for another
Does not hide itself
In the heart
But kindles a light
In the eyes
As it flickers
To flames
In the chambers
Of a loving heart.
Jfrancis
4.26.2012
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