The Poetry of R.E. Slater: Apr 4, 2021

"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Sunday, April 4, 2021

R.E. Slater - Ruptured Soils

Ruptured Soils

by R.E. Slater

As cold, dark earth must yield,

to warmth and new life,

Even so does Jesus' Resurrection rupture,

the broken soils of darkened hearts.

In whom death has been defeated,

darkness disspelt, and

New life in God's love made alive,

birthing beauty from old.

Jesus' death and resurrection,

celebrates all who we are,

Embracing darkness and death,

before arising, breaking forth.

Bursting the tired bonds of earth's

unyielding fellowships,

In resurrecting power from death

to life, by God's renewing Spirit.

We, who are the healed, the delivered,

from the cold soils of bondage,

Who must shout, who must rejoice,

"Jesus is Risen!"

Washed in Holy Spirit power,

raised from creation's cradle,

In whom all our yesterdays, todays, and

forevers, rise before Calvary's Cross.

R.E. Slater

Easter Sunday

April 4, 2021

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