Palm Sunday

Minerva Teichert, "Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem"

        Palm Sunday
 

        Astride the colt and claimed as King
        that Sunday morning in the spring,
        he passed a thorn bush flowering red
        that one would plait to crown his head.

        He passed a vineyard where the wine
        was grown for men of royal line
        and where the dregs were also brewed
        into a gall for Calvary’s rood.

        A purple robe was cast his way,
        then caught and kept until that day
        when, with its use, a trial would be
        profaned into a mockery.

        His entourage was forced to wait
        to let a timber through the gate,
        a shaft that all there might have known
        would be an altar and a throne.

        Marie J. Post