STONE: THE COLD HARD FACTS*

A stone
Stands alone
Unmoved
Unmoveable
In stele silence.

Solid but cold
Hard but old
Yet not aging
Rocks of ages

The stuff of idols
Edifices
Statues
Monoliths

Cornerstones
Keystones
Tombstones
Petraglyphs

From you
The Pieta
From you
Rocky

Petrified by
Stone Mountain or
Mt. Rushmore

From you
Avalanche
From you
Lava rocks

Precipices
Points
Pebbles
Ledges
Edges

Stoning
Head stoned
(Goliath of Gath)
Millstones
Neck stoned
Stones of
Kidney and Gall

Stone cold
Sober
Stoned
Tripping

Rolling stones
May gathering no moss
But they sure do
Rock…..

Who rolled away the stone
On chilly Easter morn
Not Pierre, Petros, Peter
With faith not yet reborn?

A house built on rock
A house built on sand
With Christ the living stone
The foundation will stand

* To be read with increasing downhill momentum and crescendo

Nov. 17, 2008

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