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 | | From: | reitnour at reitnour.com | | Subject: | 3 poems | | Date: | Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:14:11 GMT |
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 | THE ELECT (10/24/2004)
Oh Woooo Gah! The new line
Rolls out: Miss Gabriel, Miss Michael,
Miss Uriel, wings and chrome and all
The extras, fully loaded oil bearers,
Lamps lit, flickering in hickory-hard thought.
Soup her up. Run her for office,
Yes? Ecstasy in every pot! Dance
The Donee to D.C.! Move markets
If need be! Staccato-phrase it!
Kindly, smiley, misty haze it!
Shiveringly aware of who outlasts
A government that's broke--
That cannot pay for schools, for public welfare,
That has as its sole purpose saving us
From a world that it has led to loathe us--
The lovely, kind and Christian lover,
Poor of heart, breathes, yes! Oh, yes!
Apocalypse, come!
ADVENT CONSIDERED (11/28/2004)
Sanctuary sought and found in moments
In the Advent time--
Peace prepared--
A way readied
To hold us, slow us in the fall
To darkness we know. We light
The candle of hope--first candle.
The pews are oak.
Above and around the baptismal arch
Is cherry.
The preacher reminds us
We are not to be afraid.
The preacher asks us
Why do we sing?
Why, when we are falling,
Blind?
To celebrate...
Celebrate the quiet, the strange, by waiting,
As if for the love of a lifetime,
On births, deaths, and resurrections.
SPRING CITY ADVENT TREE (12/03/2004)
There is a light
No cold, dark night
Nor soul's despair
Can dim. There,
In the eye, hand
Of neighbor, friend;
Here in the shared
Work, where we cared
To make better--
To help others.
There! Here! The light
Philosophers
Seek! The light
The mystics starve for!
Right here! And we
Would light a tree--
An evergreen--
And come to lean
For comfort on each other--
Each bearer
Of hope, light for
The world's future.
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