Poetry Jam "Exalted", IGWRT's "Sunday Challenge" & "Sensational Haiku Wednesday" & dVerse "Open Link Night"

Photo provided by Richard Schear

Icy frozen sin

thaws, arms plead "deliver me"

exalted by grace

Exalted

Exposed and naked

I alone can do nothing

as a dark iciness

attempts to seer its brand

upon my gnarled body

bent with age, 

soft green innocence

long fallen away,

a life wicked, embraced.

I plead each knot

a tribulation endured,

paths chosen unwisely, perhaps,

throughout life's seasons,

but as I lie prostrate beneath

humanity's descending curtain,

I brazenly stretch frigid fingers

towards a final sliver of light

seeking to be deliquesced,

sinful brand removed

replaced with a new inner coat

of sparkling white.

With my last breath, I seek to be

exalted by His grace.

by Margaret Bednar, Art Happens 365, February 7, 2012

This may be a stretch... and I'm still not sure if I must use the word or the meaning of the word for "Sensational Haiku Wednesday" ( I will link up to later this evening).  (Jenn, let me know! :)  This week's word theme is: Relief - alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc.

This is also linked with Imaginary Garden with Real Toad's "Sunday Challenge" featuring fellow toad, Kay L. Davies photographer husband, Richard Schear.  I chose the above photo.  I often think we are like the frozen trees, needing the "son" the "light", to bring us new life.  

I am also linking up with dVerse's "Open Link Night".

Another poetry challenge from "Poetry Jam" is to experience cold or hot and how that makes us feel.  I revised a poem I had written on January 4, 2011.  (I find much of my poetry back then is due for a bit of "retouching")