April 13: Friday in Easter Week

Tiberias

Tiberias was this;
out of the dark,
soundless beauty of a gray world
stirs and shifts.

España, Miyako Namikawa rscj

Layers of mist move to lapping waves.
Sky brushed with rose lightens to blue, then sinks again to mist.
Sea and sky merge in endless gray, birds cry sleepily,
skim into light.
Slowly You brighten the world.
Fish leap in sudden flash of silver,
but my net is empty
till You stand on my shore.
Your waiting Heart
lifts a shrouded sun
to shine upon my world.

"It is the Lord!"

Anna Mae Marheineke rscj
Province of the United States