Monday, November 12, 2018

New Blog

Hey friends!

Wanted to update you all and let you know I got a new, fresh blog. I'll be posting most of this poetry there, just wanted to give you all the heads up so you can keep following if you are interested. I'll keep this site active for a while, but all new posts will be on my new blog.

Link: steelsojourner.home.blog


Saturday, June 30, 2018

Outpouring

Pour over me as water over mountains,
With pressure, beauty, infinite patience
Wear my hard edges down
And carve your story within me
Ever deeper, further up and further in.

Write a story through the ages
Of how you eroded the flesh
Until only you remained.

Pour me out as oil,
Pure and rich,
In fragrant perfume that smells
Like otherworldly Kingdom,
Fragrance that comes only from you

Pour over me as compassion,
The kind of love that weeps
for nations to be drawn back home
A heart pulled to overflowing
With mercy so potent
It could cure the coldest soul.

Pour over me and I'll pour it right back
At your feet.
What grace has given me,
Let it pass to others.

Let me waste this fragrant gift at your feet,
Again and ever again,
That you might receive the reward of your suffering.

As you were poured out as the sacrifice of all flesh,
for all time,
I pour myself out as the drink offering,
All for you
With every beat of my heart a gift
Back to my beloved

Though I drip with the oils of love,
I am already being emptied
Until the end of days;
I'll be covered and coated
In the fullness of your presence
While I waste it all,
Every moment,
At your feet,

To be my love offering,
My devotion displayed.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

To the Youthfilled Heart

While you are young, take time to sit in forests-
or by lakes where the lore gets told
by firesides under radiant and starry nights.
While you are young,
let your tongue catch the song sung in the morning breeze,
let it dance to the tune as it echoes to distant seas.
And while you are young, let your lungs burn from running,
ever running
to chase the sunrise as it dances on the edge of where land meets sky.
Before age and weary days tire us
and before we succumb to the numbness of the pace we've been told to keep-
my dear, let us run and not sleep,
with our wild, childlike eyes taking in the life we meet-
so take a seat in forests,
get lost in wild for a while,
and take it in, don't close your eyes-
not while you're still young enough to let your spirit run towards the sunrise skies