Check out my submission in the Demon Hunter - “Someone To Hate” Remix Contest on Indaba Music!
The Scapegoat (a poem for Easter Sunday)
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They laid their hands upon him;
he carried all their shame.
He stood in silence
at their accusations.
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He bore the sins of everyone
outside the city gates,
until He had removed them
absolutely.
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The wonder of the ritual
is the scapegoat gets to live,
and all whose sins he bears
are thus redeemed.
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Christ Jesus is our scapegoat;
our sins He bore to death,
but life was His by right,
and death had no hold on Him.
The life He took back to Him
He offers unto us,
says, “Come, redeemed, walk with me
into freedom!”
The Unmaking (a poem for Good Friday)
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At the centre point of history,
God turned back time.
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In the person of His Son
He walked again with Man.
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Born of Adam’s fallen race,
He drew men back to faith,
then bore the unmaking
of His mortal form,
the marring and disfiguring
of the Father’s image,
until at last,
nailed to a cross,
and bearing all our sins,
His Life had been extinguished.
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They laid His body down to rest,
an empty, void and formless thing,
as Earth had been at the beginning.
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There within the darkness
of that tomb,
God’s Spirit hovered,
brooding in anticipation
of the word yet to be spoken,
of the coming new Creation;
the third day when death itself
would be undone!
Demon Hunter remix
My latest remix, ‘Someone to Hate (Scapegoat remix) - Demon Hunter’ is online at http://www.indabamusic.com/opportunities/demon-hunter-someone-to-hate-remix-contest/submissions/99631
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My latest remix: Afterlife (Life on Earth mix) - Switchfoot
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Ex Tempore II - monophonic improvisation on computer keyboard with sample & hold effect, over percussion & synth loop
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Ex Tempore I - monophonic improvisation on computer keyboard, over percussion loop.
Mutemath remix
My remix of Mutemath’s ‘Odd Soul’ is now online at http://soundcloud.com/damian-sawyer/odd-soul-aphelion
‘Pulsar’ - one of the works which features in my forthcoming joint exhibition with Polly Aplin, at The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff. The opening evening is this Thursday (18th August) at 7pm, and the exhibition runs until 11th September.
