By William EKeasberry Revised:4/2004
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Christian
Poems
Lord
Jesus Makes You See................a vision
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That
measly mustard seed..................yet
so neat!
The Leper...................................................unclean! May I ask..................because I do not understand The Centurion's Faith............made Jesus marvel Are we blind also?......................we may well ask! "Whether is easier,.. ................................a little quiz The Wedding Feast.......................measuring up Lord he stinketh! From
quest to question................................preface
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. From Quest To Question © by Wm E Keasberry 9/9/1996 This poet's
quest is to convey in his propounded diction
His work
may satisfy him, alas to some degree,
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Lord
Jesus Makes You See
© Wm E Keasberry 1996 Oh Lord high up in heaven, thou hast so seen us stray From righteousness to leaven. Once pure of form in clay We held thy will excelsior,
we'd wait upon that will
No matter our achievements,
our table shall be our snare
Our eyes they have been
darkened, thy righteousness not seen
The King has set his table
and we should recognize
We hearkened not His message,
those words for which he died.
But fallen by the wayside, or
sprouting for a spell,
If perhaps this word should
fall in fertile soil and tended,
These words if I should
ever receive the grace to know
"Let not those who seek
Thee oh Jehovah lord of hosts
Who then shall instruct
me, who says I doth see,
The lord said I have died
for the words I bring to bear
If someone does believe
the words that I have spoken
The blind will be made
seeing. Are we also blind ?
"Hearing ye will hear
but do not understand".
The veil that is in front of
us and yet we do not see
The meaning of repentance
He will make us see
It's then that we proceed to
Kingdom come you know
Again ,here are those
words that you will have to ponder
But this much I can say,
you need this to be free
. ii You'll have to knock, you'll
have to ask
Do listen to the Shepherds
voice, He'll guide you through the Gate .
Full circle then to paradise.
We'll wait upon the Lord.
When angels will remove all
those who do offend
The ones who are his children
He'll call from everywhere
What can we do oh Lord ,to serve
you all the day
Thy word is all creation. It
comes to us as rain
This mighty flood of power,
that is our destiny.
Just follow Him, you know
the drill, you cannot get there faster
So wait upon the Lord I say,
(thirty four times in scripture)
It's difficult ,I know.
Free will is our illusion.
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The things that once were
written, heed that you let Him do.
Blinds leading blinds, while
all the world is gazing
Many first shall be the
last and many last the first.
What's new is this, it's really
old, it was behind the scenes.
If not, you'll get another
chance, another and another,
Boldly go before His throne.
Demand, I want to know!
Then read those precious
words, the ones the Father gave us.
Forget the Fuller seminary
and good ol' O R U ,
Pretentious ! you might say,
or: just a clever line.
If you are not against
Him then you must be pro,
A friend who brought a message,
knowing he'd die doing so,
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The appostle Paul has at times been quoted as having professed that it is necessary to hear the word before one can have faith. However, I believe that he was misunderstood and this poem serves as a quasi rebuttal to Pauls' misunderstood text.
Wm E Keasberry ©1996 "Faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God." *
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"Hearing
ye shall hear but do not understand". * * )
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Outch! Wm E Keasberry©1996
Some
are godly ,some are not (ps
1:1)
We'll make an
educated guess
God made all of creation,
(Joh.
1:3)
So, judging
being aware of this,
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. Confession By Wm E Keasberry ©'98 rev. I
hear that voice in this wildernis still cry:
Where Glory, like that of those lilies, (mt6:26)
I
see this wondrous Kingdom:
Nor
am I like those children
Or
like those blessed persecuted,
Thou
hast given me these eyes and hands
So
here I will remain to ponder
But
there's hope in the words that Jesus spoke:
A camel goes through a needles' eye (mt
19:24)
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Psalm 25 paraphrased. Wm E Keasberry©1997 Psalms 25 To
thee my Lord I lift my soul,
The
ones that do your will,
Show
me the way, teach me thy paths
Oh
God of my salvation,
The
way of the Lord He will teach to the meek
Those
who fear the Lord
To
those who fear Jehova
My
eyes are ever toward the Lord,
My
anxieties are magnified
Oh
keep my soul and deliver me
Let
integrity and righteousness
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Untitled
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To
delight in the law of God, Ps
1
Meditating
day and night
Of
fundamental wisdom.
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The Blind Servant
by Wm E Keasberry ©'97 Isa 42:19"Who is blind but my servant ?"
"Or deaf like the one I sent "
"Who is as blind as the one that's perfect."
Who, I wonder, knows who was meant.Is this in reference to Him
Who was to magnify the law ?
Could we be gazing at The Word,
Yet blind for what we wish we saw ?"Without The Father I can do naught." Joh 5:19
Like deaf and blind I'm rendered still;
Thus is that perfection wrought
When through Me He does His will.Then, blind me too Lord, just like Him,
And deafen me to all this noise;
Enable me to see your light
And hear your guiding voice.
Those knocks ©Wm E Keasberry I knocked
and knocked on Jesus' door ,
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. . Wonderbread Wm E Keasberry ©1999 "Beware
of the leaven of the pharisees", Re:Math.16
(It must be because
we did not yet feast,)
But Jesus perceived their
puzzled concern,
When
I was asked to make bread from stone,
Jesus likened doctrine
unto yeast in bread,
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. Illation (Re:Matt. 16) ©Wm E Keasberry1999 His time was drawing near and Jesus,
with a heavy heart
Thus His disciples were apprised
of the things that were to come.
Our loving friend and rabbi, Emmanuel,
Prince of peace,
"You have given me the keys to the
Kingdom and now I will restrain
"Your will is like that of the world
and not the will of God."
He suffered as we suffer now, from
a satanical condition.
His lie took a hold on us and forever
we are changed,
"But even if one would prevail and
owned the world whole,
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The Laborers (of Matt. 20) ©1999 There was work in
the vineyard and the master called many
So the Lord said:
" Go ye, my vineyard is there,
When the evening
was come and the horn was sound
Then came complaints
from the ones who came first.
The owner replied:
"Why are you complaining ?
The many He called
received what He promised
It is like a riddle
that leads to confusion.
"The
first shall be the last, and the last the first,
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HIS REPROACH. By Wm
E Keasberry ©2000
Oh Lord
my God I'm drowning;
I am so
weary of my struggle
I have
restored what I did not take away,
I would
not quench a smoking flax
And yet
I would not brake it,
This lamb
on whom all sin is brought
I pleaded
and I begged of You,
In that
land of milk and honey,
In that
dreary little town
For the
zeal of thine house has eaten me up;
But one
who made sackcloth his garment instead,
In the
garden of Getsemane
Oh Father,
if it is at all possible,
And as
I looked down from that cross through my tears
This
pain ! This hate! More than I can take!
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Wm E Keasberry©2001 Matt 17:20 If I had a caterpillar, preferably type
B16,
Those things are useless in
this kind of jam. What is a man to do?
"Remember what I said." He said,
"This is really neat!"
How ever does one quantify one's
faith? That is a good question.
Lord Jesus, Thou art the creator,
and 'though I am devout,
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The Leper by Wm E Keasberry©2001 Matt 8:2 When Jesus Christ descended after
preaching on the mount,
Just like parting of the sea,
that crowd would back off in disgust.
And Jesus said: "I
will it, but see that you tell no one,
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May I ask Wm E Keasberry©2001
Matt
6:34
"Your Heavenly
Father knows that you have need of all those things."
"For everyone
that asketh shall receive and he that seeks shall find,
And if we than, being evil, give
good things to our young;
"...wide
is the gate and broad the way,
Without which even Salomon after
sight of eyes he could not judge.
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Lord he stinketh!* ©Wm E Keasberry 2002 It was in the
town of Bethany. A man called Lazarus laid sick.
Jesus stayed
with them two days and after that He went.
The disciples
who left with Jesus were not aware nor worried.
"But at last
the time has come, so let us all return."
Martha knew
that He could heal the blind and also make deaf hear:
Jesus saith
unto her: "Thy brother shall arise again."
Jesus said:
“I
am the resurrection and the life: He that believeth in me,
Though Jesus
knew how things with Lazarus would eventually unfold,
Jesus raised
Lazarus from the grave where he laid dead four days.
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Cold Warby
William E Keasberry ©'98
Then counterspies to
counter spies were brought onto the scenes
The masters of deception,
camouflaged as human beings.
One spy who spied
on spies who spied on spies has now been told,
That neither Tinker
nor Taylor but Candlestickmaker is the one who
came in from the cold.
Did this one in fact
defect? Was he a sacrificial goat?
Is what he tells suspect,
or is he now in truthful mode.?
The moles he brought to
daylight are ours in high places.
Alas, there are no smoking
guns and neither bloody traces.
He tells us to investigate
who do investigation.
But files on them are gone
as if in sudden dissipation!
Now has arrived a warmer
spell and adversaries start to reason.
We declared a victory; Are
we the best at treason ?
The answer to this question,
which may throw you for a loop.
Is an equivocal "Damn right
we are! And for a higher good !"
The unsung hero's of this
war went quietly into battle first,
But aren't given any medals
for being the best at being the worst.
When they are needed, they
are there;
No challenge they won't
meet.
"Anytime! Anywhere!" .....
That, is their solemn creed.
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A Natasha by Wm E Keasberry ©10/97 Je biensur
sais que pour toi
Mais beaucoup
des ans plus tard
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L e J a r d i n F l e u r i By William E Keasberry ©1998 Quand
je regarde tous ces fleurs
Quand
je regarde tous ces fleurs
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. Saigon 1996 Wm E Keasberry Nov.1996
©
The
swells of this peaceful tropic sea drift us to distant shores,
*)
The
Dong is the monetary unit in Viet Nam.
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The author, (that's me),is aware that his writings may not be congruent to the traditional christian beliefs, but he advocates that there are no substitutes for the words of our Lord Jesus, from our Lord Jesus. So any questions for clarification should be directed to Him.
This material was received
freely so I give it freely to those who want to give it freely
.
Wm E Keasberry
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And here's Bill. I was born in the Dutch East Indies and my parents moved to
Holland when the Dutch East Indies became Indonesia.
After my education at the Anthony Fokker School for aeronautical engineering in The Hague and fulfilling my draft term with the Royal Netherlands Air Force, I maried Barbara whom I had been dating about seven years.We moved to California where we raised three children, Andrew, Shirley and Nancy. Andrew maried Ingrid and there came Nelson; Shirley maried Kevin and "begat" Christian and Jaden; and Nancy maried Darrin and they now have little Alexandra and Isabella.
With the kids maried and moved out, the "empty nest" has provided a slower pace with some quiet time to meditate and read poetry. (And even write some.)
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