Calvary painted love's picture for me.

This is the latest poetry challenge...number three...hope you enjoy...

 

                                                                      POVERTY

 

Gay apparel, star of the show

Dancing, merry, nature aglow

Flowers beauteous, crops abound

Splendor of riches; summers profound

 

A slow death seen as foliage shrivels

Carpeting ground, colors fizzle

Come first frost, winter invading

The palette gray, brightness is fading

 

Trees barren, devoid of leaves

Shivering, lifeless, as one who grieves

Stark land, fallow of field,

Lackluster scene, to death all will yield

 

Poverty stricken, all seems but loss

Dying seed, to ground it is tossed

Ultimate sacrifice, life being given

As on the cross Christ’s body was riven

 

At spring’s first dawn a corn of wheat

Will be the sustaining of life so sweet

When harvested, the hungry will be fed

From the life sustained in one loaf of bread

 

Wracked in poverty? All is not lost

After dying, giving His life on the cross

Jesus rose again amid the strife

Offering us sweet newness of life.