Category Archives: Poetry

My poetry. Mostly Collects

“Someone in the crowd said to him…” – Luke 12:13

All-Knowing, All-Seeing, All-Hearing One,
Who said it?
Always the anonymous one.
Again.
Looking to gain by stirring up trouble.
Too many want their lives their way today
 - Has this ever not been the case? - 
and to have it their way,
mysterious and unknown,
special only to them.
Take care, you reply,
be on your guard
against all kinds of greed.
Amen.

“Listen! A sower went out to sow.” – Matthew 13:3

So, God,
Ground of All Being,
Creator
of the path,
of rocky earth,
of thorns, barbs and bristles,
and of the good soil.
Scorched, withered and choked
seems to be the produce of today
farmed from the labor of our hands and mouths.
Dare we blame the seed?
Ask for new seed?
Amen.

Examine yourselves… 1 Corinthians 11:28

Holy Questioner and Divine Judge,
you allowed yourself to be stretched out
upon the Roman cross.
May this bread and this cup
stretch our minds
beyond
the hurt we wish to inflict,
so divisions that make us hungry to hurt
and thirst for our righteousness to be done
come together at a table.
Amen.

…and the thing was suddenly taken up to heaven. Acts 10:16

Divine Deliverer, who brings down "something like a large sheet"
filled with "all kinds of four-footed creatures and reptiles and birds of the air",
a miraculous menu for all to consider,
voicing from above the earthly table,
“What God has made clean, you must not call profane,”
send more of that sheet,
as we failed, for the fourth time,
to read your writing in the heavens.
For upon its removal, the earthly author
turned
the dream of your holy arrangement
into a disappearing act,
even calling the dream,
"the thing."
Amen.

And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me always. Exodus 25:30

Presence,
Giver of all presents,
presented on the table
is the bread of the Presence,
presently
uneaten.
If You are not going to eat it
can I have a bite?
Or, if my request smites you as selfish
might I share it with the hungry?
Amen.

“…so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2

Will-full, God,
who gives me the ability to discern your will,
is your will singular or plural?
Who is the "you" You are referring to?
For while I may be clear
on what is good and acceptable and perfect,
the plurality of "you",
the second persons plural,
them, those people and the Others,
discern a different good and acceptable and perfect.
Amen.

What then are we to say about these things? – Romans 8:31

God who cried pain
into the universe from the cross
and who,
after breaking yourself apart
at the very beginning of time
pealed to the heavens, "I AM,"
and who,
after finishing the early work of creation
declared, "It is good!"
make the words in our mouths
so we may say
something
about these things
that make heaven on earth
...intricate and awkward and grim.
Amen.

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. – Romans 8:18

You,
Who suffered on the cross
- some say for our sakes, for my sake -
and died.
Tell me how the point of a nail
through the wrist
compares
to my demon's daily grind and grinding
of this present time
which followed the grind in the present time of a moment ago
and, if all Hell doesn't break loose,
will be followed by the grind in the next moment in time?
A comparison with future glory is necessary
to keep considering
the sufferings of this present time.
Amen.

Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. – Galatians 3:24

Christ,
Eternal with God,
the beginning Word,
through which the Law
came into being,
begotten, not made,
breaking yourself apart
as an example
to discipline your disciples,
saying, You feed them,
feed us
again.
Jews and Greeks,
male and female and other,
struggle with each other,
against each other,
for each other,
as the Law disciplines
again
with each other against each other.
Amen.