Showing posts with label Nehemiah 8. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nehemiah 8. Show all posts

Friday, August 29, 2014

Where the text goes 2


No words for years
decades, no statement
no explanation the texts
left behind for years
decades, destroyed, buried
transmitted by mouth
imperfectly, parts omitted
forgotten, seeping
into the ground,
spilled blood.

The winds blows foe years,
decades, eons, the texts
forgotten, a few locked
in cupboards and chests,
covered with dust, waiting
for light.

One day

the sun rises.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Where the text goes


He wrote a poem
words on a page
words in a journal
he carried with him
always
a few words
scattered over weeks
disparate thoughts
varied inspirations
but falling together
in a pattern of birth
unexpected, unanticipated
pieces fitting together
lines adhering
to one another
forming coherence.


Photograph by Karen Arnold via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.