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Poems on the Holy Spirit’s call to repentance and life.
(Originally written at Pentecost.)
Reject
Reject the outside
Can’t have the new
Run away from the other
At all costs
Distrust
Self-preserve
Self-protect
Self-Surround
Contain
A Skeptic
Resolute
Suspicious fully
Welcome refused
Indefinitely
Select only what you already know
Wear the mask of perfection perfectly
Don’t ever consider taking it off
Wing from your mind your deep need
Your wrinkled woeful worrisome need
Fear the different
Forget hospitality
For knowledge is to be found only within
You nknow it all already
You…
You
Listen not to the herald
Of his coming
Listen not to the voice
Crying out
Listen not
To the one himself
Yet to you he came
He has come
Yet not received
Yet not recognised
homeless stranger
From the holy house
You did not make a home for him
Yet he made a true home for you
Complete
You…
You
Corrupt
Careless
Child of dust
You
Oh Rebellious House
The door swings wide
Open
Will you yet say
You still have no need to enter?
—–
Save yourself
Save yourself
And
Lose your life
All your hold most dear
Extravagant overspending
Of what was given generously
You have given yourself
Away
You are bound
Fettered to the raging wind
And not free
As you think
Though you don’t know it
You are out of control
Cast to the sea
Of your ever storming heart
This can be the day
Your heart finds
True joy
This can be the day
Where you are resurrected
Here the porch light lit
The Father watchful
The final Adam
Has cleared the way
The Spirit points your compass
Home
He waits
Tenderly
For you
Gazing every watch
Of the day and night
Your chair
Is
At the table
Child
Come home
—-
Hosanna
Save us
We cannot save ourselves
Our starting point
And truest prayer
Hosanna
Cried out
Voices hoarse
We have tried it all
We are still thirsty
We have tried it all
And have made ourselves ill
Hossana
Save us Lord
From all that seems to harm us
Save us from all evil
Save us
Jesus
Save us
From our
Shadow places
Lukewarm tendencies
And delusions of control
Our night-obscured souls
Save us from our
Illusions of the self
Distorted
Not whole
Hosanna
Save us from ourselves
Hosanna
For
We cannot save ourselves
Hosanna in the highest heaven
—
Light the Lamp 
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