The Fig Tree

In Sunday School I learned about the big red apple of original sin in the garden. How Adam and Eve ate thereof. Caste out. Ashamed. Hid from God. What I didn’t learn— it was really a fig. They ate a few. Clothed themselves in fig leaf. Hid from God. Caste out. Separated from God. How Jesus went to the fig tree for food and finding none, he said, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” Explanation mark. A curse that lifted a curse. And the tree withered and died.

Jesus new Adam

the sin of man forgiven

reunite with God

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NaPoWriMo Day 29 prompt on curses.

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Christ’s Entry

I can’t really say I loved him. Love does not come easy for me. He was my first kiss, a little bit of making out, kind words from his thin lips.

I went on to guard the pool, to save a life, my tanned olive skin a beacon for men. Then one day a man walked through the gate and I watched his choppy strokes across the water and married him.

We vowed to love art. To make art out of our lives. We traveled both locally and abroad but that huge painting on the Getty wall stays with me— Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 by James Ensor.

When will He come?

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NaPoWriMo Day 21 prompt— a person forgotten, a job taken, a memorable piece of art, an unanswerable question

https://smarthistory.org/ensor-christs-entry/

Palm Sunday

Look at a man riding the donkey

Go with him saying Hosanna

He is the one waited for

Spread the palms at His feet

He has come to save

Sing songs of joy

Praise His name

He is

Lord

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NaPoWriMo prompt Day 9 to write a nonet. This is based on Zechariah 9:9.

Crown

I wore it on my head

delirious from its weight

wanting to stay upright

posed and productive

ruling my thoughts

with more thoughts

demanding right words

to subjugate my subjects

learning to turn glistening crown

of diamonds and pearls

to a crown of thorns

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dVerse quadrille prompt with the word crown

Bread and Wine

thousands left at the thought

of eating body like bread

and drinking

blood— forbidden they shout

walk away

will you go also

but where would they go

when the answers

were more than metaphors

serve for us the bread and wine

let us feast

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dVerse quadrille prompt on WiNE

easter with e.e.cummings

  

easter with e.e.cummings

far from mystery of glowing

mystery find real peace in it

He has (believe it) risen

near to the sacred heart see true

heart to find a pure love in it

(believe it) He has risen

above a doubtful world made whole

world struggle find God truth in it

He has risen (believe it

beneath all try to understand

to understand and understand 

I) believe it (have risen)

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NaPoWriMo Day 5 prompt to take a poem and use the structure of that poem to make a new poem.  I always thought e.e. cummings as being structureless; however, this poem I chose was tightly structured.  I learned a lot from this exercise. 

What Season is This?

What season is this

wear a mask for groceries

or you will get sick

What season is this

watch lawlessness on tv

in the name of change

What season is this

where travel is restricted

all over the world

What season is this

when people defy rule

to loot for big screen

What season is this

who saw Jesus statue fall

in mobocracy

What season is this

without fear of authority

that a way be made

What season is this

we stay away from people

end humanity

What season is this

worried for our liberties

while some hold rifle

What season is this

wayward disobedience

taunting the police

What season is this

welcome truthful dialogue

no taking of sides

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dVerse prompt to write a series of haiku — I am baffled by what is going on in the USA

MARK 14: 23-24

The Alabaster Box

Six days before Passover

Jesus came again to Bethany

Martha served Him dinner

& Lazarus sat at the table with Him

Mary brought out an alabaster box

of costly oil of spikenard

which was imported from India

Mary anointed the feet of Jesus

& wiped His feet with her hair

& the house was filled with the fragrance

Jesus & the People

Jesus no longer walked among the people

Hé & His disciples went to Ephraim

a city near the wilderness

it was 6 days before the Passover

& people were wondering

would Jesus come to Jerusalem

His following was building

He had raised Lazarus

from the dead

& the priests & Pharisees

wanted to kill Lazarus as well as Jesus

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I’m in the middle of a 40 day series on Jesus going from Caesarea Philippi to His ascension.