IS IT I LORD ? (poem) by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com on AuthorsDen

IS IT I LORD ?
by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com → (All Poetry by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com)
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WHEN'S THE LAST TIME THAT YOU ... DID PENANCE? IS YOUR CONSCIENCE CLEAR? CAN YOU IMPROVE? DO YOU WANT TO? WILL YOU?

IS IT I - LORD? © - Tom Hyland - 3/23/12 As Nature Abounds Now With ... Her Beauteous Bounty - A Kaleidoscope Of Colors - Spring Has Sprung! New Growth - Re-Birth ... Veritable Rainbows of Flowers Everywhere! Wildflowers - Daffodils - Iris’s - Gladiolas - Dogwood Trees - Cherry Blossoms - Forsythias ... Ash Wednesday Has Past ... “Remember Man Thou Art Dust ... And Unto Dust Thou Shalt Return!” Where, Oh Where, Has Our Humility Gone? The Holy Season of Easter is Upon Us! Soon, We Will Re-Celebrate the Past, As We Have Done Now for Two Millennia ... HOLY WEEK! The Triumphant Splendor of Palm Sunday ... Long Leaves of Palm, Waving in Excited Hands - The Gentle, Small Conveyor, The Donkey ... Symbolic Also Way Back in Bethlehem ... A Different ‘Ass’ Perhaps ... But Nonetheless Important - As It Carried The ‘Master’ on Two Separate Journeys ... No Steed, No Stallion, No Grandeur ... Lowly! ‘Maundy Thursday’ - The Washing of Feet ... Symbolic of Lowly Service to Fellow Man - Arch-Bishops and Bishops ... Wetting and Wiping The Carriers Of Underlings ... Oh That - The ‘Pharisees’ of Today ... Would Remember This! The ‘Holier Than Thou’ Clan! Dirt ... Dust ... ASH! The Passover Meal ... Unleavened Bread - Fermented Juice of Grapes ... “This Is My Body” - “This Is My Blood” “Do This In Remembrance of Me!” The ‘Dipping’ in the Bowl ... The Infamous Words of Judas Iscariot ... “IS IT I LORD?” The Thirty Pieces of Silver ... The ‘Agony in The Garden’ at Gethsemane ... That Deadly ‘KISS’ ... BETRAYAL! Judas Was Certainly Not Very Judicious ... The Redbud, or ‘Judas Tree’ - His Demise! GOOD FRIDAY! The Interrogations - The Pharisees - King Herod ... Pontius Pilate - “Ecce Homine” - “Behold The Man!” The ‘Lavabo’ - Washing of Hands ... “I Will Wash My Hands Among The Innocent!” The ‘Crowning With Thorns’ - The ‘Scourging at The Pillar’ ... The ‘Purple Robe’ and ‘Scepter’ ... “GIVE US BARABBAS!” The ‘CRUCIFIXION’ And Death ... “Remember Me Lord, When Thou Art in Paradise!” “Forgive Them Lord, For They Know Not What They Do!” “IT IS DONE!” KNEEL IN SILENCE ... “IS IT I LORD?” The ‘Laying In The Tomb’ ... The ‘Sealing With The Stone’ The Fear And Remorse of Peter ... And The Rest of The Apostles And Disciples ... HOLY SATURDAY ... The ‘Mournful Watch’ - The Anticipation! The Hope! The Prayers! “In Three Days I Shall Rise!” “But Then Comes The Morning ... Yesterday’s Sorrows Behind ... Wake - It’s The Day of Your Longing ... Life Returns ... It’s Morning!” EASTER SUNDAY! “HE IS RISEN!” “TRIUMPH OF LIFE OVER DEATH!” “There Are But Three Things That Last ... Faith - Hope - And - Love ... But the Greatest of These Is ... LOVE!” “Love Thy Neighbor As I Have Loved You!” “Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You!’ “IS IT I LORD?” Please Ponder The Question Awhile ... ‘May The Peace And Joy of Easter Abound In All!’ © - TKH.

Reviewed by Linda Hill

Reviewed on March 24, 2012

Tom,
A RISEN Saviour, Beautiful tribute to HIM.

Blessings,
+Linda

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

“Love Thy Neighbor, As I Have Loved You!”
“Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You!’

Sounds like peace and harmony has returned to the old Ed Family. Ma will be pleased!

Reviewed by Mary Lacey Desertrat

Reviewed on March 23, 2012

Tom,

This was excellent, and you captured the essence of the Easter season so perfectly, yet reminding us to always remember to live as Jesus did.

Mary

Reviewed by John Martin

Really well done Tom. The nice thing I've noticed about being my age is...You no longer have the energy or urge to sin anymore. Happy Easter and God bless.