Poetry Slam: Pro-Dem-Nation

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In a world filled
with condemnation
Could His Bride become
a pro-them-nation?

Limerick: Larm Bell

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Inverting “alarm” gives us “larm”
Good news that acts like a charm
If even a cross
Brings more gain that loss
Then earth’s worst pain cannot us harm!

Poem: Gospel Flywheel

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The gospel flywheel
Transforms what’s real
Frees the world from sin
As I’m changed within

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Weakly Knews

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The power that I never knew
Is weakness revealing what’s true
For when I reach my end
The cross starts to mend
Those hearts that were broken in two!

Limerick: God’s Dealay

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When God delays dealing with sin
We’re forced to face problems within
His plan for the world
Is slowly unfurled
As dying like Christ we begin

Limerick: SubVerMissIon

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In a world where submission’s subversive
I find myself being aversive
If I’m to not lose
The road that You choose
I need to become more discursive

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Limerick: Disowned Will

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Christ Kingdom becomes most effective
When each of us owns our Perspective
And yet our own Will
We’re willing to kill
To live His collective directive

Poem: The Grace Response

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How we respond
When we feel pain
Tells us what
We hope to gain

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Mrs. Jesus #1/7: Blew Monday

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1 Corinthians 7:34 and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

The scene is a cozy suburban house from the 1950s. Black and white, like in The Dick van Dyke Show or WandaVision. The door opens.

Jesus: Hi honey, I’m home!

I run into his arms and cling tightly to him.

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Poem: The God Who Is (and We Are Not)

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We Christians and Jews
Do not get to choose
Our reality
Is defined by Thee

The One that You are
Must be our North Star
Your plan from above
Must be how we love

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Limerick: Grown-Up God

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When we are little God’s small
Though to us He seems all-in-all
But as we grow our brain
In a world filled by pain
That comfort is destined to fall

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Limerick: Rock Bottom Favor

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For Joseph

We all need to Rock “Bottom Favor”
Though that means we must drink bitter flavor
When we find joy in pain
Our cross becomes gain
And we bear fruit the world will long savor

Limerick: Die Lightly

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Death should seem to us a light thing
And yet we all feel it is frightening
Our ego recoils
From losing its spoils
And flails with a grip that is tightening

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Poem: One Change

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What is one change we can make
That will cause all our hearts to un-break?
The smallest bit flip, like a lever
That makes “certain” what once was “never?”

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