by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 18, 2016 | Poetry
In a quiet only known with You
You are God
I can reach out and touch the gifts of Your praise
In the colors of Your rainbow are Your radiance and mercy
and I have been allowed to be here!
You chose me before You made me
or the earth and all its wonders
You tell me how much You love me
with every breath You breathe into me
I am but to praise You with Your own love and faith
and I will stay here for awhile
because it took so long to see how much You gave for me
To stand here and minister to You with Your own song
with Your own truth
In a quiet only known with You
by Summer D Clemenson | May 18, 2016 | Poetry
I heard You yesterday
surrounded by trees and strangers
I felt You walking with me
I looked for someone coming
over my shoulder and all around
and then You spoke
“Do you feel Me?”
Four words relieved my anxiety
Yes I feel You
Our steps were in unison
and I wasn’t alone
Greeted by people in need
people in a hurry
people who can’t see me
You were steady and leading
I have stumbled looking for You
Today Your strength kept our path
“Do you feel Me?”
Four words show You trust me
to know You are here
Our steps are in unison
and I am not alone
by Summer D Clemenson | May 17, 2016 | Poetry
I know how to scrub floors
I can do it in any dress
whether in drag, rags or coiffed to the nines
I am here to serve
On my knees with or without implements
I’ve cleaned up messes I didn’t make
I have grown and I have watched
you drop your plates, scraps and shrapnel
where I can see
you maintain your stature
and my body become one with the floor
At your pleasure I have served
watched my sisters at their stations
until I was alone
Then a swift kick in the rump
can send me airborne
to scrub what no one else saw
On my last trip down
I decided to stand up
and walk away;
maybe learn to dance in my own house
because her smile made floors out of clouds
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 20, 2016 | Poetry
My father worked hard and built two houses
one wanted to be an island
the other wanted to be the world
When he left the island he never came back
It was my job to keep it from floating away
While my light shone bright You sought me
Before my small hands could break
You breathed into me Your life
because without You I wouldn’t be
My father collected 4 porcelain dolls with painted faces
but I was really a house of mirrors
My dress was full to cover my broken parts
because no one wants to see some things
To bless those You need to be seen
You made me with the ability to see
Mirrors tell truths minds can distort
You heal wounds even we can’t see
My father came from a railroad house;
he built with tools he had learned to make
Tools the world says are strong but not on an island
I’ve moved to the city
The island likes to be what it wants to be
When I walk by a mirror I am surprised to see smooth skin
The other dolls have cracks from smiling too hard
Your wind has scattered them to their hills
But I stand here because this one You made for me
You have built my new house
You’ve sent me a sergeant to be strong when I can’t
My mirrors are broken but we want to hang Yours
Your light shines through every dark place
Your carpentry will make sure my father and his houses are welcome
Your foundation is forgiveness and we will have strong floors
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 3, 2016 | Poetry
In the quiet You are here
In the clatter & destruction
You are here
When I reach out my hand
You meet me as far as I need
I know that You know
that I know
that I know
You know
I can’t walk alone
So You are with me every step
You know every tear
every drop of blood spilled
every wound
that I can’t allow to heal
You are the perfect salve
I will never go septic
When I stop
strangling myself
You will be the air I breathe
Because You are my heart
that beats
the synapses that fire
and You will not let go of my hands
Written by Summer D Clemenson 12/29/2015
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 3, 2015 | Poetry
You are great and massive
Without You
I am a speck in someone else’s eye
In Your might
I grow
As we walk I become more like You
While You hold me
I illuminate within You
Arms outstretched
as the boughs of a mighty oak
Your roots run deep and steady
The breeze in the leaves
speaks of Your Spirit
I feel it moving
I repeat the song it sings
and watch it heal
I am refreshed
by Your river that overflows
In Your shadow I will never move
November 1, 2015
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 25, 2014 | Poetry
You are so much bigger than myself
Drowning in communication
Caught in the chords that we’ve confused
I am straining to hear You
but the addresses are new while the links look unchanged
—
Critics have had their say
The constant wailing and lamenting
has captured thousands of hits
But only You know what I am mourning
—
The information I have depended on
cannot be found
You see my creation and documented the keywords
I have worked hard to maintain a user-friendly site
but the pop-ups have led me astray
Will You tell me where I am going?
—
The polls are in and the adware has been effective
My arms are exhausted from constant hacking
You are the one that connects the parts of me You made
while the marketing continues to mix
—
The slideshow is entertainment while I wait
for the entire page to upload
A glitch in the database
stops my head from speaking to my feet
while technicians install Your latest update
There are 3 empty chairs at this station even though You never leave
—
The fine print clarifies that You are always refining
My code is always being updated
I look forward to being newer and better when You are done
as silver purified in a furnace on earth 7 times
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 8, 2014 | Poetry
In the warmth that fills me
You claim Your place inside
Like a child I behold Your face ablaze
Giggles escape in adoration
as I reach up to look better at Your eyes
as I run my fingers through Your hair
—
As long as I stay here
You are my breath
You empower my opportunities
and even while I look to You
You leak out of my pores
—
The voices singing Hallelujah
erupt and fill the room
We sway in Your arms
but only use words that seem too small
In You we find our likeness
while you manage the production in Your Word
—
Desire to move on my own
takes me out of Your light
So I will stand on Your feet
and let You lead
I fail when I try my hand at choreography
—
There is a whisper in my soul
that answers every question
Like a child I behold Your face ablaze
Giggles escape in adoration
Who I am is in Your gaze
and You are the song and the dance
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 21, 2014 | Poetry
I would have nothing but death
and with a broken heart You made plans for that
You said there would be war
and rumors of war
You said You would come back
and I would take my eyes off You in order to guess
Even this is more proof of You
My neighbors revel in gossip and drama
while people You love
starve and sleep in the street
You said humanity would breed evil
and it has
I have tried to avoid dancing with them yet still I must repent
You know how hard I have tried to be good
and failed
Your love is so deep and encompassing and honest
Trust founded in you
has been raped by our greed
But in my heart You remain
You overwhelm me with Your grace
So I would be happy to look more like you
You said I would be persecuted
by liars, tramps and thieves
Your salvation is complete
even while I still remain ready to compete
I hear the song in my heart cry with You
because You replaced mine with Yours
You see me through Your Son even through my sin
I am slowly losing my first site and sound of judgement
because You require me to give up all
While You are my amazing gain
I live in a glass house You built
I am hidden by Your Name
You are Promise and Truth
You are Overcomer and Savior
I am because You are
by Summer D Clemenson | Aug 14, 2014 | Poetry
You want me to live in your box
Your invitation is perpetual
and you think you won
In the black and white
I die
The death you embrace
The rigid walls cut my skin
You spend resources
to name my life as yours
Writing rules is your passion
You poke and prod
You question and assess
but you do it for you
while I fight to hold still
Powers and principalities
push me out of your realm
Push you into yours
The realness of fear
keeps us in opposition
It is not just flesh and blood
that makes us move
It’s life
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 17, 2014 | Poetry
I was kicked in the stomach today
I am the subject of a hit and run
Accusations runs wild
Fear plays loudly in stereo
and surround sound speakers
Not one bit of gratitude
has played for my ears
While I fly over their heads
Attacks come
from every direction
There is screaming inside me
Yet there is also quiet
that holds my attention
My gums are inflamed
my stomach is on fire
But You are here all the while
When I land
I will still be in Your arms
I will be in your peace
where I am never evicted
where I have what I need
Your countenance shines through mine
While I am in You
and You are in me
Image Credit: http://blessingsbeyondthebarnyard.com/2013/09/what-are-you-afraid-of.html
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 7, 2014 | Poetry
The gifts will continue to stack up
while you curse His blessing
Even while you mock His greatest creation
you will always have enough but I hold what you didn’t ask for
He cries for you
while you do what was done to you
Wounded and guarded
they pray for guidance while I carry them
Together we maneuver your obstacle course because
I refuse to hide your bad marketing
He cries for you
while you do what was done to you
You sing your own praise to all who can hear
You thank Him for divine gifting but don’t see what is in front of you
Depravity has been born out of neglect
While you shut me out in fear
He cries for you
while you do what was done to you
Keep tearing me down while you push them away
Don’t listen to me even though I speak through honest hearts
Ignore my communication and spite my questions
Only see the distraction instead of what I hold in my hands
He cries for you
while you do what was done to you
Note: As with any art what you see or hear is relative. I don’t usually explain any part of my poetry but the message on my heart while I wrote this is so important. The subject of this poem is so many people who are believers who don’t love people because people hurt them and stole their trust; there are so many of us. “I” is the Holy Spirit. “He” is Jesus. “They” are the messengers he has placed in our lives to show us something we need to heal. If you want to be healed Jesus knows what you need. Trust him. You can’t always trust your eyes & ears. If you have been abused your eyes & ears may have scars. Believers can’t rely on the sword and the law; we are no longer subject to the law because the life of Jesus will lead you in all righteousness.
Image Credit: http://elgarblog.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/the-pendulum-swings-patent-misuse-and-antitrust-by-daryl-lim/
by Summer D Clemenson | May 30, 2014 | Poetry
Up high in the air
Only God really sees
Flying where he breathes
Only God really sees
Over rivers of his glory
washing and cascading
through canyons
and dry heat
The song we sing
Only God really hears
His song he sang
Only God really hears
The walls he made
to guide your path
Are glorious
as we fly
Our direction at his discretion
Only God really speaks
His word shake us
Only God really speaks
His message of love
is his glory we sing
from rainbow filled skies
we are the wings
Painting by Joshua Simila
by Summer D Clemenson | May 14, 2014 | Poetry
My love and I sit entwined
although our bodies
are in different rooms
Dancing inside are
Your wish for us
wrapped around hope
and joy
and something much larger
than one word can convey
To be so completely connected
but never satiated
keeps my curiosity high
Calls me back to the promise
Maintains a fervor back to your heart
Where my identity
My true name
are written in blood
You catch me in the strongest arms
You carry me in the softest embrace
You bless me absolutely
and I can only consider
my devotion
as we move together
as one
Image Credit: http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/08/16/painting-one-of-my-3d-prints-with-video/
by Summer D Clemenson | May 1, 2014 | Poetry
I know all promises are fulfilled
because you are here
You have filled the empty places
and the reality
is no longer overwhelming but healing
To enjoy the dance
doesn’t just make me stronger
as we move together
The colors that paint the sky
made of water and light
have shown me the greatest declaration
and my eyes have forever been opened
to who I am with you
The revelation you have been here forever
while I was being perfected
makes me sing in uplifted tones with my hands held high
The burning inside
is encouragement that I was made for this path
Makes my motivation more real
I continue to become more of who I was made to be
My greatest JOY is that you are always here
The rainbow doesn’t have to be anticipated anymore
because the treasure has been unearthed
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 23, 2014 | Poetry
I swim in a pool of unuttered tears
only known by the LOVE that hears and sees and knows
The cool of the liquid
comforts sore hands and knees that are scraped
The waves are red and blue
the colors of you while we played
I know you know that you are loved
by not only me
My arms rest on the water
They ache to hold you now
as when we danced and learned and sang
I know that you know that I smile
as I remember sleepless nights
and the comfort of the sound of our games
Faith in you washes over my newest scars
A great wall made of stone
divides us today
It continues to be built regardless of my hope
I know you know
the LOVE that whispers encouragement
and holds us safe
from the law abiding guards
I sang my heart song into the wind today
and I know you know
I will keep dancing in the rain
until we can revel in rainbows again
where our outstretched arms
replace the miles of regulations
While LOVE builds the sand we sink our feet in
into the firm foundation that calls us to walk on the water
where we will dance and learn and sing
by Summer D Clemenson | Apr 11, 2014 | Poetry
Can I manufacture hope when I am less than You
What if I lost my control
My direction
My passion
Would You love me less than me
In the peace You are the piece of me I could never have made
The life in me that never runs dry
Becomes immobile
Forgets the goal
Regardless of the surprises
The add-ons
The details I wasn’t told about until I have shown up tired
Used up
Gave with the part of me that doesn’t live
You live in me
Love for me
You are the maker of my hope
While I learn to let You be the biggest piece of me
by Summer D Clemenson | Jan 13, 2014 | Poetry
Thank You in our JOY
Thank You in our times of
perceived lack
Thank You because in
Your patience
Your salvation is true
For the suffering man in the cold
For the lost dog
For the rich man who thinks
they have it all
My heart aches because
Your JOY is full
but we don’t know
Why did I stand here
ringing a bell
that sings over Cowlitz County
The rings louder than
the truth we don’t have time for
Until they trust me
I will stand here
& in your patience
I will see your salvation
become real for more
than the 12 in this room
Sometimes I don’t hear either
so I will thank You
that You are true & never move and I never lack
by Summer D Clemenson
December 14, 2013
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 25, 2013 | Poetry
you dangle over a ravine
you dug
Faith not of God
but by your own power
you have danced, sang and praised
In the light of His love
He feeds you
and sustains you
just enough
“Not enough!”
you scream
“Where are You?”
you shout
you flail around
in the river of your own blood
your tantrum will end soon
In your quiet
He will be heard
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty
He is great and worthy of praise
He enjoys the glance of your eye
He inhabits His praise
His glory is worth noticing
His blood saved you
In your exuberance
In your new freedom
you didn’t know how
your mind is confused
as you try to use two
The old mind still sings
yet Christ in You reigns
so in your good intensions
you suffer
your ministry flounders
because you are listening to the wrong heart
But God is faithful
His is happy you are dangling
because when you grow weary
and let go
He wont let you crash
anywhere
but in His arms
By Summer D Clemenson
November 25, 2013
Based on James chapter 1
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 2, 2013 | Poetry
You have taken something from me
I can never have again
You stole it
with insatiable teeth and greedy hands
You planned it
and here we stand
while you have never see my face
I don’t glorify God
He told me I can’t
before I was born He breathed me into being
He knew the hurts He would have to heal
before He chased me down with more passion
than I have ever possessed
He saw me in a light I didn’t create
All I said was yes
He is glory and
He glorifies Himself in me
You can’t hear me
on top of your high mountain
Your reflection is all you see
In the tone you have perfected
you have fooled many
But I have listened to my heart
I can’t see you because
I am looking at Him
I don’t glorify God
He has told me to stop
He didn’t create me as a his pilot light
But the stand that He sets ablaze
The fire you try to start
smolders while my tears run down His cross
and I choose to forgive you
He sees me as He created me
And I said yes
He is glory and
He glorifies Himself in me
In His blood I am me
by Summer D Clemenson
November 2, 2013
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 8, 2013 | Poetry
and my heart was happy
while the angels sang
in words that only You can hear
Their cries rose out and over
encompassing this man
encompassing and overflowing
as Your messengers sang
You took him away and brought him back again
brand new
His eyes glowed and shone of Your mercy
clothed in Your banner of love
his spirit ever singing Your praise and Your grace
Oh holy Lord
Oh holy Lord
Oh holy Lord
You won
You are life
You are
As Your countenance shone through mine
You overflowed
Your love on all that were infiltrated by Your miracles
who foresaw and believed
with empty hands and full hearts
they sang with me as I was embellished
who You are
as You chose to prove who You are
I heard my soul singing
in our secret prayer songs
and I groaned
Amen
By Summer D Clemenson
10-8-2013
Dedicated to Lynn’s Brother
by Summer D Clemenson | Oct 4, 2013 | Poetry
Louder than the wind
I hear the screams
The accusations
The fighting
All the times you didn’t know how
to choose joy
The whirlwind never stops
The one that keeps my voice
out of your head
Judgement
Defiance
Defenselessness
fed by a spirit you know well
but not by name
I want nothing more than to love you
I have gone to the ends
of the world & back
I chose you
I will never give up
So I will wait
Even if it is your last breath
I will hear you
when you choose joy
by Summer D Clemenson
9-28-2013
Photo Credit: Joy, Photo Credit: Mashakotcur, Dreamstime.com
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