Christian Poetry
Devotionals
Journey Through Easter - Easter Sunday - This Blood 'Continuation'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008
This blood that stills my soul
balm to aching heart
and remover of scars
moves on through time's passageways.
This blood pretends for instant to be wine;
more palatable, less demanding,
tended by one wounded soul
to a thirsting brother.
This ointment of love
and picture of sacrifice
salves with cooling drop
all the condemnation of fear.
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Journey Through Easter - Easter Sunday 'Revelation'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008
This is a strange compulsion:
to go to that dark place of death,
to reverence an empty body.
We go in sense of duty,
we go in the garb of tradition,
we go with no expectation.
There is easy access to this place:
no barring stone nor guarding soldier
sentry here.
This is the place of death.
Death is all there is to find here.
We can choose to stay,
to minister to nothingness
with our b
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Journey Through Easter - Your Temple 'Resurrection'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Monday, July 7, 2008
Your temple
is a fragrant cloud,
a whisper in a breeze,
birdsong in an early evening,
a dreaming robe of daylight.
Citadel splendour,
vulgar stable,
high pinnacle or low valley,
their walls do not contain or glorify
nor wholly speak praise.
The crystal jewelled
golden altar
of a searching soul
is where communion takes place.
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Journey Through Easter - Friday Night 'Separation'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Friday, July 4, 2008
And after the pain, more pain.
Deep and dark
loathful separation.
The black clamour of blindness,
the taut grip of death.
Time stopped: a different eternity.
Memories of friends and Father,
the lifeline at finger’s edge.
In this red-black deep
there is no passion, no joy, no light:
just the wailing of souls
and a tomorrow that never dawns.
The most recent of memories hold no respit
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Journey Through Easter - And You And I - 'Communication'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Six pain chasmed hours
on a day that has no beginning,
when shackled eternity
and Satan's dance
converge
upon a hill,
a love-nailed sacrifice
and the parched darkness of time.
Demons laugh,
while angels smile with tear filled eyes.
Blood's curse becomes wine's soothing balm
and broken body
the blessing of confessing bread.
Here at table
shadowy prophets
speak of the masquera
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Journey Through Easter - On This Hill 'Contemplation'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008
In darkest daylight
with all sin revealed
the host is lifted high.
There is no melancholy melody to this sacrifice,
no quietude of choir-filled gentility
to align thought and soul.
This altar of absorbing pain
staggers the senses, grips the mind.
This is a solitary place.
A hermitage,
crowded with broken hearts
and wounded spirits,
oblivious of their fellows.
Let sense be dul
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Journey Through Easter - Fulfilment 'Completion'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008
“It is finished”
though not over.
Breathing, pulsing, life extinguished
in wicked celebration,
blood, pain, tears and darkness.
The false tree’s solitary leaf fallen,
Winter’s early breath contaminating Spring,
one Lamb at the Passover table,
one Messiah at this feast.
“It is finished.”
“It is finished.”
Beyond the curtain,
in the corridor between earth and heaven,
a chasm span
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Journey Through Easter - My Heart In Silence 'Meditation'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Thursday, June 26, 2008
My heart in silence humbly cried
the scene before - a wounded side
thorny crown and crucified.
No faded communion this
no winey blood nor half-baked body
no hiding place for self-pity
nor shield for rose-tinted eyes.
Thorny crown and crucified
the scene before - a wounded side,
my heart,
in silence,
humbly cried.
And hears your words,
“Father forgive”.
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Journey Through Easter - Palm Sunday 'Elation'
Writer Author Keith Wallis
Type Christian Poetry
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Devotionals
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Behind, in the hot distance,
in dust and haze,
a mystery-cloaked cloud approaches,
a playful meander
breaking the monotony of day.
The anticipation of something special
catches the pulse and breath of pilgrim souls on the road to celebration.
Whispers grow to discussion,
opinion to argument,
theories fleet between mouths and ears.
A dignitary on his way to the feast….
A g
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