Jesus and The State

A victim of the violence of state yet a victor in silence sedate sliced, iced … sacrificed his dictum is science innate What said the christ? — “Live by the sword, die by the sword” — the zeitgeist of those who lord These kingdoms when spring comes will end a stateless king comes to transcend […]

Church and State on a Date

When Church and State went on a date it got quite late …oh too late When their eyes met it felt like fate They thought it great, their new estate Church and State with merch and hate The merch is bait They smirch and grate They perch and search and lurch and mate Church and […]

Them Dry Bones Will Live

The Lord showed me a valley of dry bones, drier than a desert’s sun-baked stones. And wondered if the lost could be brought back to life again. Then the Lord asked me if them bones can live, and I thought of His power to forgive. But the case looked hopeless from a human point of […]

The Armor of God (poems and songs)

by Trent Wilde May these seven poems serve as a means of putting on the Armor of God (Ephesians 6). The War From the morning, as the sunrise, I will honor you with my lips. Light adorning, time to shun lies, once a yawner, but your dew drips, dazzling my eyes, making wise, my tongue […]

Choose

Many love the truth a little but they love this dead world more. It must be that those who do believeth not what is in store for those who choose to die to sin and let the Spirit reign within. What can it be that draws their love to things of earth from that above? […]

The Reason to Die

What is the substance of the lie – the reason to sin and keep your bones dry? That magnified “I,” gives a stone cold look from his heart of steel he makes-believe God and goes by his feel It’s the season for reason accept the truth for the truth The Reason to Die, is why, […]

Amid Mayhem

Chaos rains — they say loss gains imperial chains of whitewashed brains bring inane disdaining, inhumane detaining, and same ol’ mansplaining …nothing worth retaining Amid mayhem hooks — forbidding they/them, banning books, take a scanning look through spanning darkness oft mistook for foreboding night unknown stars then come in sight now stark from wrong is […]

Liminal Lamb

To follow a shepherd makes sense to a sheep To be led by a lamb…what a leap When the lamb here grazed Most eyes glazed By them he went unappraised He was one of many black sheep Consigned to any trash heap His track, considered too steep Baaing, he neared—they peered, then feared Clawing, they […]

Perceive

with eyes still closed a light arose black to red bright it glows through eyelids shut to perception’s gut reach vague rays soft they cut will brow furrow focus burrow seeking darkness thorough? or will dimness yield to pupils revealed with lumens for sight unsealed? night fails lift the veils eyes open see shadows gropin […]

A Word If You Will

Will a word change your thought? Or will it float down the stream—a dream till nought? Of one word you feel assured. You have it stay. Another seems absurd; You make it go. But sorting words this way can’t bring you to know. What should one ask of a saying? “Can I […]