Category: Prophet Margins
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Trinity
Revisiting TrinityThe open rose fadesand the wheel turnsNothing standsalone or stillCreation evolved uswho discovered rhythmsdescribing creationThe first realm is creationfrom quarks to earth to cosmosWhy is there spacewe ask the cosmosWhy should there be timeThe second world evolved in timeHuman consciousness has no starsor quarks or quanta / We are not the stuffany cosmos expectedWhy…
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All Saints ~ 2025
Threshold May we honor these thin timesthis liminal spacethat opens to the sacredThere is only a veilbetween this world and the nextBecome aware of deep timeand ancestorsstill in uscommunion of saintsstill in usgoodness not just our ownstill in usnor is the badnessjust our ownWe carry the livedand unlived also the healedand the not yet healedLet…
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Now Available
Go to https://morph-e-art.com (the front page of my website) and scroll down to Spoken through the Prophets. Click the title to read online or download to get your own pdf copy. I have been working on this for 5 years and have made quite a few posts of individual poems and groups of them. You…
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Isaiah Comes Home
The spirit of the Lord is on mefor Yahweh has anointed meto bring good news to the poorto bind up the broken-heartedto proclaim liberty to captivesand release to those in prisonto proclaim a time of God’s favor – Jesus from Luke 4 and Isaiah 61 Introduction Most of the poetry in Isaiah 56-66 was written…
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Who Do You Trust?
Did you get a good price for your soul,the power you thought you bought?Whether you belong to Jesusor the Tempter or some local god,you never had much control or freedom.Now you don’t have any.Someone or something else is in control. Clean up; grow up; wake up; show up.The Sign of the Crosswill begin to lift…
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Hear the Calls and Serve the Songs
I believe in prophesySome folks see thingsnot everybody can seeAnd once in a whilethey pass the secretalong to you and me– Joan Baez Introduction Often we can take a mechanical view of prophesy. That is, such and such a prediction will happen. While this may be true in some sense, the import of prophesy is…
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Open Rose for Trinity Sunday
The open rose fades,and time’s spiral turnsNothing stands alone or still.Creation evolved us,who discovered rhythms,describing creation.The first realm is creation itselffrom quarks to earth to cosmos.Why is there space?we ask the cosmos.Why should there be time?The second world evolved in time.Our awareness hasno stars, quarks, or quanta. Could we be the stuffthe cosmos expected?Why am…
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Cantata for Several Voices
Spoken through the Prophets–11aIsaiah reference / Chapter 40Format / Japanese renga [Tenor]Console my people. Speak to Jerusalem’s heart and call out to her. She’s been treated like a thief, but her term is now over.[Bass]In the wilderness prepare a way for our God with the valleys filled. The crooked will be made straight, and everyone…
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Uprising
Descending Hurricane Ridgeand looking not far but close,I saw one standing at the road’s edge.Her feet were in snow,her hands folded in prayer,and her face turned to a bare gray snag.This watcher, this Mary of Magdalawith gray hair and a gray robe tells meto remember the dying tree of Golgotha.I join my prayer with hers;we…
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Suffering Is Your Teacher
Spoken the the Prophets–10Isaiah reference / Chapters 30, 32, 35Format / Hebrew versetsWhen God has given you the bread of suffering your teacher will comeI Am will be gracious to you when your cry for help rings outI Am will send rain for the seed you sow in the groundThe bread from that seed will…