How long will I stand
In this world of undreams,
Where only the shadows
Are what they seem?
Left brain overwhelmed,
Right mind seeing ‘round,
Let me write or draw or paint,
I must remember thoughts I think.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
How long will I stand
In this world of undreams,
Where only the shadows
Are what they seem?
Left brain overwhelmed,
Right mind seeing ‘round,
Let me write or draw or paint,
I must remember thoughts I think.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
Life is nothing if not comical,
Most certainly it’s truly tragic.
Our dilemma’s astronomical;
We need a special brand of magic.
Enter Aslan: ONE TRUE KING,
His mighty roar salvation brings!
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
If traveling would make of me
One who’d ever wander,
Harming hearts and failing minds
And tearing things asunder;
Thanks be to God who keeps me home,
Allowing me to wonder,
O’re color in the flower’s frame
And rolling of the thunder.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
For Lemona Elliott & Ladonna Elliott Daniel
In the quiet,
six foot depth,
we gravely laid
your case to rest.
Daughter sighed,
mother wept,
children round
softly crept.
By grace alone
you stood your ground,
and in Christ
new freedom found.
Away with you,
our faithful plea,
fly to Him
your soul to keep!
Until your case
be once more raised;
The Judge shouts, “You-
come forth be saved;”
Your shell will linger,
decompose,
over it green
grasses grow.
But on That Day,
in That Hour,
be resurrected
by His power;
Then running and leaping
and praising God,
o’re soil our feet
this day hath trod.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
Allow that I know
My safety is in You alone;
That I am safe because
You keep me safe,
That there is no need
For any other but You.
Do fill me up with You,
Wash me daily in Your Word;
Surround my soul
Within Your Essence,
Keep me safe,
Safe and sound.
Amen.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
I wish to see the tulips
In their splendor testify,
Your beauty is reality
Not some shell you hide behind.
Friendship is a solemn gift
Not given by the blind.
Is there something more you seek?
There is no more to find.
All are fools but for His Love,
No other story matters;
I have no greater gift to give,
Though see your heart in tatters.
An idol’s not a thing that lasts,
Broken bent and battered,
It’s buried deep beneath the earth,
With its subjects shattered.
Copyright 2023. L.L Shelton.
Nothing to see,
Nothing to do,
All the world over
Nothing is new.
Empty faces,
Worn-out places,
Life is lost and
Leaves no traces.
Bitterness breaks
It down to the races,
Rich or poor
Everyman braces,
For final hour;
Where there is
No power
In self.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
At the hands of the law
Men choose to crawl,
To live work and play.
As night follows day,
As saints kneel to pray,
The mighty will tumble.
By Grace they fly free,
See from the trees,
Live His bidding to do.
Their shadows will fall
Ore the rotting cabal’s
Strange odorous flesh,
Adorned by Glory
To fulfill the story,
On His signal alight.
Tongues are not pleading;
Chords do the screaming.
Fierce claws rip the eyes out.
For evil so flagrant,
Justice is fragrant.
The unrighteous must pay.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
(For My Lovely Daughter, Emily)
Adam’s choice would be our own;
Dishonor God upon His throne,
Seek our way, our will, our pleasure,
Forfeiting our only treasure,
Exiled now from paradise,
There would be One Sacrifice.
God’s agony upon the cross
Made sure our hope is not the cost;
Beneath the global winter frost,
Truth of Christmas is not lost!
Now each new and hopeful breath
Overcoming vicious death,
Gather we to sing God’s praise,
Our voices raised to heaven blaze
Against our sin; but for our brother,
Love for Christ and one another!
God’s agony upon the cross
Made sure our hope is not the cost.
Beneath the global winter frost,
Truth of Christmas is not lost!
The horrors of this world can’t sway
Our joy ensured on Christmas Day!
Christmas will not die in man,
God willed it not to die; His plan,
To rescue all who hear Him say,
Peace on Earth this Christmas Day!
Copyright 2022. L.L. Shelton.
Angels stared in wide-eyed wonder
While our God, His voice the thunder,
Touched the earth as tiny babe,
Travailed with us within our plague;
Watched God feel and heal in power,
Teach with care until that hour
Love compelled Him toward the cost,
Where for our sins He’d bear the cross;
Saw Christ weeping in the garden,
Begging would there be a pardon,
Blood and tears mixed with the ground,
No person faithful there was found.
Angels looked as God ordained;
Let souls in glory ease Christ’s pain,
None to match His disparate sorrow,
Climbed the hill upon the morrow,
Raised His head in triumph claimed,
It is finished [in my name]!
Still they marvel, it is said;
The boy God sent us in our stead,
Grew in love so bold and pure,
The wrath of God for us endured!
Still they sing, The Great Love Story,
Christ in man, the hope of glory!
Copyright 2022. L.L. Shelton.