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