UP from the Grave

Note this poem is being re-posted from 2 years ago in honor of Easter again this year.

Yes, He’s Risen
by dgford

3/2011

The rock was rolled away
And there inside the tomb
No body was discovered
My heart then broke in two.

From the dead he rose
Just like he said he would
And standing at the door
He knocks upon my heart

He paid the greatest price
The life upon the cross
The blood he shed for all
A man of sorrows called

Timeless story - ages past
Reaching into future lives
Still he stands there knocking
Open up and let him in

Comments: 22

Ann Marcaida Mar 20, 2013, 11:21am UTC

I like the way you connect Christ's absence in the tomb with his presence in your life. Thanks for sharing with Gather's Luminous Writers and Artists. Featured for Easter.

ʚϊɞ Carol ʚϊɞ Mar 20, 2013, 11:58am UTC

Nice new icon Ann.

Ann Marcaida Mar 20, 2013, 1:09pm UTC

Thank you, Carol. It's Tinuviel, the elf-maiden spoken of in Lord of the Rings.

Pete S. Mar 20, 2013, 2:23pm UTC

Please excuse the geekery, but... her actual birth name was Luthien; "Tinuviel" means "Nightingale", and was her nickname because of her singing. She was the daughter of Thingol (Graycloak), the greatest of the Elven kings of Middle Earth (i.e. those who did not make the Great Journey to Elvenhome across the Sea) and Melian, a Maya (lesser order of angels). She was the most beautiful of all creatures in Middle Earth, and chose mortality, to die with Beren son of Barahir, the mortal man she had married, rather than to live on as an immortal elf without him. As I've mentioned elsewhere, Tolkien and his wife Edith are buried side by side; their tombstones read "Beren" and "Luthien".

Pete S. Mar 20, 2013, 2:24pm UTC

I can go on for hours, even days...

Joy Bee Mar 20, 2013, 2:30pm UTC

Let me know when you write a book Pete. I would read it.

Ann Marcaida Mar 20, 2013, 2:47pm UTC

I saw that comment coming, Pete! I used Tinuviel because it sounds so much prettier.

Pete S. Mar 20, 2013, 3:04pm UTC

Indeed it is, and my comment was not a correction, but an amplification. Gather is the one place I can geek away to my heart's content, and nobody can stop me! Bwahahahaha!!!!

Pete S. Mar 20, 2013, 3:06pm UTC

Thank you, Joy, but about a third of the way down p. 17, you would decide "if he weren't so boring, he'd be infuriating" and send the book off to a disliked cousin as an Arbor Day present.

Joy Bee Mar 20, 2013, 3:15pm UTC

I will edit it for you, okay? We'll make a steamy novel out of all that information you have stored away in that noggin' of yours. (Don't take me up on that, I'm busy having way too much fun reading Gather comments, it's so entertaining.)

Ann Marcaida Mar 20, 2013, 3:21pm UTC

Some of us are fans of your geekery, Pete.

Pete S. Mar 20, 2013, 3:44pm UTC

Awwwww....... thanks!

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ʚϊɞ Carol ʚϊɞ Mar 20, 2013, 11:59am UTC

A perfect piece for Easter Don.

Featured in honor of Easter at Examining Our Religion.

Don Ford Mar 31, 2013, 8:55am UTC

Happy Easter, and thank you for your comment. Cheers, Don

ʚϊɞ Carol ʚϊɞ Apr 1, 2013, 12:34pm UTC

Same to you Don.

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Joy Bee Mar 20, 2013, 2:32pm UTC

That picture is awesome. I want one.

Joy Bee Mar 20, 2013, 2:55pm UTC

Oh, and I like the poem a lot too. The picture was just so captivating.

Don Ford Mar 31, 2013, 8:51am UTC

Joy, I always try to couple pictures and poems or stories. This picture is available in full color on photo paper and is matted in 9x12 if you are serious. The poem I will add for free. Retired and my works are reasonable.

I did a picture for a gal in Indiana of a sidewalk with several cracks in it, and I colored in some fingers hanging on to the edge of the walk.
She said it looked like her - that she was always falling through the cracks in life. LOL

Cheers, Don

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