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Jane Blanchard: in anticipation of All Saints Day
Commemorating The Stations of the Cross
The Third Station
- The First Fall
- I must recover from this fall.
- No other Savior can be found.
- I will redeem the sins of all,
- So must recover from this fall.
- I still can hear my Father call.
- To His intention I am bound.
- I must recover from this fall.
- No other Savior can be found.
The Sixth Station
- Veronica
- As all continue toward the place,
- A woman in the rowdy crowd
- Steps forth to wipe the Savior’s face:
- Her veil anticipates His shroud.
- Jesus, never mind the throng.
- May such faith as yours stay strong.
- Only you can right much wrong.
- This act of kindness captures stains
- Of pains endured phase after phase;
- An imprint on the cloth remains
- And lasts until the end of days.
The Eleventh Station
- The Nails
- All three are driven into him,
- In Roman fashion, limb by limb.
- These soldiers have been ordered to
- Give every criminal his due.
- Their posting at Jerusalem
- Has proven grueling, gross, and grim.
- They often wonder just how true
- Is any claim of what or who.
- Affixed, a sign amuses them:
- INRI the acronym.
Jane Blanchard
Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her poetry has been published around the world and online. Recent work appears in Aethlon, The French Literary Review, THINK, and Third Wednesday. Her latest collection with Kelsay Books is In or Out of Season. Blanchard’s three “Station” poems are part of a larger cycle of poems commemorating the passion and death of Jesus Christ as traditionally depicted in the Catholic devotional series of prayers known as The Stations of the Cross.
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Jane Blanchard: in anticipation of All Saints Day
Commemorating The Stations of the Cross
Jane Blanchard: in anticipation of All Saints Day
Commemorating The Stations of the Cross
The Third Station
- The First Fall
- I must recover from this fall.
- No other Savior can be found.
- I will redeem the sins of all,
- So must recover from this fall.
- I still can hear my Father call.
- To His intention I am bound.
- I must recover from this fall.
- No other Savior can be found.
The Sixth Station
- Veronica
- As all continue toward the place,
- A woman in the rowdy crowd
- Steps forth to wipe the Savior’s face:
- Her veil anticipates His shroud.
- Jesus, never mind the throng.
- May such faith as yours stay strong.
- Only you can right much wrong.
- This act of kindness captures stains
- Of pains endured phase after phase;
- An imprint on the cloth remains
- And lasts until the end of days.
The Eleventh Station
- The Nails
- All three are driven into him,
- In Roman fashion, limb by limb.
- These soldiers have been ordered to
- Give every criminal his due.
- Their posting at Jerusalem
- Has proven grueling, gross, and grim.
- They often wonder just how true
- Is any claim of what or who.
- Affixed, a sign amuses them:
- INRI the acronym.
Jane Blanchard
Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her poetry has been published around the world and online. Recent work appears in Aethlon, The French Literary Review, THINK, and Third Wednesday. Her latest collection with Kelsay Books is In or Out of Season. Blanchard’s three “Station” poems are part of a larger cycle of poems commemorating the passion and death of Jesus Christ as traditionally depicted in the Catholic devotional series of prayers known as The Stations of the Cross.
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