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

While Heaven and Earth Watched

Who knew

Hell

Would come to earth

In 1942__ 

And claim the Jew

For death and destruction,

While the world too long

Stood and watched

As Satan’s henchmen

Gather millions

For the camps and ovens

And the smoke ascended

With the souls

Of G-d’s children.

Jfrancis

5.12.2012

The Last Love Poem

Love

Is a never ending poem 

Written

With a cachet scent

Of her warmth

On a humid

Starlight night

Where

Two hearts 

Are tied together

In a never ending Love

Jfrancis

5.20.2012

Peace in Jerusalem

Peace in Jerusalem

Is a dream___,

A valley of dreams 

Full of dry bones

Rattling about

By His Spirit___

Out in the desert

Where Israel

Keeps its dry

Rattling dreams

And you Lord

Are showing the world

Each day

This valley of dreams

And the bones

And breath

Your enemies fear.

Jfrancis

5.25.2012

Leave Me in Mystery

A pale writer

Enjoys paleness 

And writes

The better for it.

He works the ridges 

And ravines

Where cover

Satisfies his plot___

And the enemy

Hunts a phantom

Skilled in warfare

Who hunts them

With a mighty pen

And words that live

On both edges

Of his sword___

Come Armageddon.

Jfrancis

5.25.2012

Death for Sodom

The days of Lot

Spill out over us

Like a liberal rain

Of storm clouds before us

As Satan awaits

The meltdown

Of Endtime.

His orchestra plays

A hurry up tune

Of madness

And wretched days,

Of death

In a pillar of salt.

Jfrancis

6.10.2012

Israel

(Blood for Land)

Why was I given blood

But to enrich a land

Whose heart,

Jerusalem,

Has poured out her life

For centuries

Among the rocks and rills

Where lies the DNA

Of Heaven itself. 

Jfrancis

6.14.2012

Blood

(on ammunition hill)

Death comes

In the night

Among trenches 

Where Jewish blood

Soaked Holy Ground

And sons of Israel

Rose and fell 

As the sea

Meets the beach

And deposits there

The remains

Of those

Who lived and died___,

So walk the shore

And look with care

Of what reminds

Of ages gone by

When Israel was young

And blood was precious

Among the sands of time.

Jfrancis

7.6.2012

Arafat

(ramallah’s prince)

Death takes the man___,

Regarding blame

The footprints left

A checkered path

Through time

Of his choosing___,

So his destination.

Jfrancis

7.13.2012

Love for the Land

As if she were a woman 

Who has captured your heart,

Only worse___,

Her love glows 

And flickers

To flames

In the chambers 

Of all Israeli hearts

And cannot be hidden___,

It shows in the eyes,

A love for the land

That embraces

When you least expect 

When you turn

She is in your arms

Wrapped about you

Even at the waist___,

All nine miles,

Where we dare not go.

Jfrancis 

7.22.2012

~Unfinished Poem~

In the pale of morn

When time stands still

And light persuades dark

To release the day . . . .