Prayer in the Eye

Litany of sound, thoughts all around;

Windstorm and gale, of Depression’s “Hail!”

Ground is shakin’, boughs are breakin’

Worries are swirlin’, promises seem curlin’,

I stand in the Eye, huddled and scared.

My heart is abeatin’, the future quakes pale.

“God–where are you, when I’m in the storm?

I’m scared, I’m tired–I can’t hold on.

I’m blinded from the battering debris

Please hold me, Abba, and set me free!”

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Gather the Clouds

Gather the clouds, wrap up the rain,

Harvest in Springtime, while keeping the snow.

See in the future, by knowing the past.

Build new foundations, from something that’s old–

Something that’s tried, something that’s true.

Peace you can feel, from something untouched.

Joy in a word, a promise, a thought–

A God, now invisible–soon to be seen.

One who is infinite and yet is a Person–

Worthy of praise, incarnate in love,

Who speaks to the whole universe,

And also to you.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Talk to me.

Talk to me, Child. I won’t always be here.
Listen to me, Little One. I won’t always be near.

The dishes are piled; The clothes, not done,
But I’ll sit on this swing with you, my son.

The air is warming, but the wind’s still brisk.
My generation’s now aging, our Sun soon sets.

The once-strong hands
That held you,
Will quiver instead,
And look to a son–

For this same comfort and care,
That I am offering to you, sittin’ right here.

Talk with me, son.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Cradle in the Sky

Cradle in the sky; East meets West.

Clouds on high; the seas rise,

A tide comes from out-the-future.

A song arises on the clouds,

Unfurled amidst the coming storm.

Gray on red on black all swirling,

Cradle rocks, but I don’t stir.

Every eye ‘already seen Him,

And I’m at home in my cradle-on-the-wind.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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O My God, In Whom I Trust

The coins in my pocket ring more true than my heart.

When trials wage war in my small soul,

When my fingers are chilled,

And my thoughts hot red,

It takes a cool metal object of alloy,

Both copper and nickle,

To remind me of  “my motto”,

And chide me to not be fickle.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Quietly Goes The Morning

Quietly goes the morning,

Into the day ahead,

Gray mutes into the daylight,

Cautioning me, “Don’t stir!”

A mere blanket is my one fortress,

Against the cold of the floor,

And the chores, a practical litany,

Announce garishly in my head,

Hush, once more in the dawn-light,

I’ll travel to Heaven instead,

My Lord is my strength and my song,

I need to think on that a few minutes–

Before I forge out of bed.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Gracious God

Gracious God,

‘You are’, not ‘were made’,

Your very essence, Is.

Yet You unselfishly gave

All other beings life,

So now, we are, each in our own way,

Following in your grace-filled footsteps,

Giving life to others.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Gentle My Soul

Gentle my soul in the dark of the night.

I’ll sleep in the crest of your arm, no fright.

The waters may rise, the buildings may fall,

The Earth may shatter in a trillion

Particles, jagged

And whirl into space,

But you and I will find our place,

Our safe, our embrace,

Tucked inbetween a moon and a star,

Quieted by comets, aglow from afar.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Caliper the Infinite

Caliper the infinite,

Find the square root of point repeating eight,

Estimate the sound of silence,

Ingratiate the decimal, dividing with a word.

We live enveloped in of a shroud of time,

Intangible, incremental, metered quarks of life,

That function and never return

Feel their integers touch your soul,

Announce the answer with a whole.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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My Heart Weeps

My heart weeps when I hear it.

A woman stoned for adultery, a child stolen away,

A man beheaded–I can’t see it.

It’s the worst, moral decay.

Life is a virtue, a freedom, a gift.

No one can steal it from someone,

Without it affecting us all.

An anguished, red rift;

Humanity’s heart torn,

Flails at the Wailing Wall–

All our tomorrows we’ll mourn.

 

 

by Pamela Palmer

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The Lord

In illness I have praised You

Only by Your grace.

At Death’s door when I faltered,

It was You, I saw your face.

In the loss of my child,

Before she was born,

When catastrophe came blowing,

And the money was all gone.

You have been there.

Your arms and Your words–

Touching my soul.

Majesty in a whisper!

Love in a Lord!

 

by Pamela Palmer

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On Naked Wood

The naked wood stood on a rocky crag,

Impaled with nails from other criminals

Now dead, their blood dried brown down the carved,

Splintered sides, dividing the sky from the ground.

Down the footpath the cries arise;

A new one to crucify and despise.

A Man walked in a peace beyond this world,

And took up His place for that Awful Interval, nailed,

Like the sinners before him, raw punishment unveiled.

Jesus, the Innocent, breathed in His last

In horrible pains, to cover our past.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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The High that Wasn’t

The thought slipped in, the lie was made.

A boy decided, words of wisdom fade.

“Every teen does it, so I better try…”

“I hope my parents won’t know.

I hate when my mom cries…”

Friends contacted, the text relayed:

“Meet in the Park, when you’re free…”

“Let’s smoke some…K..BRB…”

“LOL, Inhale when you breathe!”

“You’ll love it!” they said, “It’s so great.”

He lied to his mom, as he said he’d be late.

He tried it, some weed from a baggie half-rate,

And all that it did was cause panic and shame,

A heavy head, deep fatigue, and a high that was lame.

Next day he called out, alone in his room

To the God who was listening and who answered him soon:

His mom, a bit nosy, out of love, she said,

Found out all about it,

From his email sent to someone, she read.

And she said:

“God’s will is higher than any high.

I love you still. I always will.

There’s mercy for us all on Jesus’ Hill.”

Yes, she cried–but just a little.

 

A young man decided, the lies to renounce,

Words of wisdom embraced,

True repentance announced,

To his mom and his dad.

Baptized in mercy, by the grace that he had,

He went on higher and higher reaching his goals,

Remembering God’s mercy and the Truth he was told.

 

by Pamela Palmer

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Just a Drink

I saw a man. He touched my heart.

He saw my secrets,

No one else had read.

I had lived a life full

Of soul-scars, half-dead

My hope of real love gone 

Long ago.

I remember the first,

First love of youth, elated joy–

Brought low by broken dreams

(He was just a boy,

I now can see.)

And then the others,

A long, hapless chain

Of men, just men

With rifts and flaws,

Who failed, like me,

And never saw–

My heart

Like this one, he knew it all

Could he be, the One

I’m searching for?

He asked for water, first from me

I asked Him for some,

And received–

His Love, eternally.

by Pamela Palmer

The Gospel of John 4:13-14

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The Academian

The man resides in halls of dust

His mind, a cerebral periodical.

The web, his endless cyclopedic-toy,

That makes him positively giddy;

Amusement of infinite knowledge,

In which this sophmoric sage bathes.

He rejoices in a bland lack

Of real truth, it lies locked

Memory-file labeled:  “Don’t Touch”.

No remembrance allowed–of words once heard.

As a child he had rejoiced,

In a small sense of peace,

“There is a God…I think.”  he had said,

With child-like glee.

But that miniscule thought is now dead,

Under agnostic rules of rhetoric.

“No God, for me… I hope.”

A pale frown escapes from his busy, thin lips.

“I’m too good for that…Out, you crazy fear…

Where is that book? Oh good, it’s here….

‘My Philosophy of Death’….Ah, how enlightening!”

He blows aged dust and turns a page,

And forgets again, any thought of the God,

Who loves him still and who will

One day require from this small, desperate man

An answer for the life he was loaned–

Each thought, each act, each written word,

Each digitized, skeptic text he wove. 

 

Shall we stay on empty paths,

Littered with the flawed thoughts

Of other cynical fools,

Like dead leaves on dust-footpaths

That criss-cross the avenue of the One Truth?

 

by  Pamela Palmer

The Gospel of John 14:6

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The One

Can you know the wind? Can you feel a star?

Can you sink a cloud? Or hear a mountain sing?

There is a man so poor he’s rich,

And ones so rich they’re dead in stuff.

A baby dies without the cure,

A gangster freed, the law unclear.

Questions ream and stack on shelves,

And no one knows the mysterious.

But One–He knows the answers all.

He solves the problem, riddles too,

And gives us peace with just a word.

The answer’s often never told,

As you grow old, His hand you hold,

His grace the warmth inside the cold.

Can you read a river?  Can you stop the sun?

Can you see the trees clap?  Or make the lightning run?

 

by Pamela Palmer

 

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The Flood

Drag on, drag on, I’m in need of a Savior–

Rush on, rush on, my thoughts cringe and hide–

The worry, the sorrow, gale-bashed behavior!

My God, I need the warmth of peace by your side!

You can guide me and hide me, under wings of your love.

Protected above, every wave, every tide–like that dove.

In you, I am able.  In you, I’m made stable,

I’m rescued from rushing waters I’ve cried.

 

by Pamela Palmer

 

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Who is the hero?

The courage of a hero

Is not in words alone.

Measure the man

By deeds he’s done,

In public and in secret;

Not the rhetoric written,

By clever ones behind the scenes,

Instant-policy from polls glean.

The polictical arena,

A world wide web,

The lights are bright,

The noise surrounds,

The news reels at the speed of sound.

Blogs blunder, reporters fail,

The convention’s over, the music regales,

Don’t turn away as confetti falls,

But look between and make your call:

A vote based on the past—

A record of the man at last.

 

Note:  I wrote this after Barack Obama’s acceptance speech as the Presidential Candidate for the Democrat Party.  We need to look at his record and John McCain’s to truly pick the hero and the man who will be the best president.   Who has a record of respect for the life of every human, especially the unborn?  Who upholds the Judeo-Christian values that American was build upon?  Who has courage under fire and in secret?  Make your call.

 

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Jus Rappin

Syncopated sounds, rap star grieves

Gulp a coke, snort some white.

My bling is heavy, my Porshe aight.

What’s the meaning? All this trip?

Why am I doin all of this?

Who’s the Man, now I’m rich?

Words are spittin, rappin, fallin

I’ve gotta keep up or else I’m stallin

I need a floor under my feet

To pop-lock, DJ Mix

And never stop

Who’s to show me what is what?

Words are fallin, spittin-up

Life is gnawin in my gut

“Can’t somebody shut-up!”

I need a Source, the lyric is grindin

The meaning is missin or else it’s blinded,

My words from the street,

Don’t tell my mama,

Trash-talk from out back,

Don’t call it Black.

Somebody help me!

Can’t find the door,

The track is playin,

Don’t play me more!

I can’t see straight!

Where’s the door?

I need the out.

Man, I wish someone show me how!

 

by Pamela Palmer

The message of Jesus Christ as the Source of Life and Truth and Salvation is the Answer we need to bring to the turmoil of this current culture.  Often those who are on the “top” leading our culture are lost themselves.  Let’s not have people who are “lost” leading our way!

 

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Avatar

avatar

i know who you are

but do the rest?

rest in your anonymity

it feels good to be

alone, apart, allowed to do

anything

do what you want

no consequences found

hidden behind you

i can be all that i can be

who will see?

repeat with me:

I am who I am

will see

does see

you are free

when you rest

in the truth

not a lie

“avatar

i know who you are.”

 

by Pamela Palmer

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