Pastor Seth’s Poems and Musings
LISTENING
LISTENING A.P.B.: Missing here! A right ear and left ear! No sign of whereabouts! Relations in the pouts! Listening: you go first! Listening for heart’s thirst. Listening for their mopes, Listening for their hopes. Listening for their thoughts, Listening for sore spots. Listening when they’re curt, Listening for their hurt. …
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Book of Hosea
BOOK OF HOSEA Hosea, the prophet, married the village whore. And to three loser “dads,” three children Gomer bore. I wanted MY people, in sad Gomer, to see, Like Gomer, that they were adulteresses to Me. She did what she wanted, with men, running around. “They leave me food and gifts, in secret at…
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In the Fortress
How many are enraged, the petty and the small? Disgruntled archers shoot sharp, piercing arrows, all. I long for the safety of your garrison’s fort! Why do I come to You as only last resort? When I look to humans for sense of importance I’ll always miss the trail to Your solid fortress.…
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Book of Genesis
Beginnings of our world, The goodness of Your hand. It didn’t take us long Making messes on land. Adam, Eve, and Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Ten brothers, and two more, The patriarch era. Self, curved in on itself: Foolish “drama,” conflicts, Egos, pride, fights and strife, Childish quarrels, nitpicks. By nature ego…
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The Narrow Path
My first twenty years I walked the road broad Until empty, longing, I came to know God. Forty-seven years since; on God’s path I have trod. Different kinds of terrain I’ve walked on this Earth’s sod. Hovering jungle growth, fear and danger abound Amidst the STARK unknown ‘twas once lost; now I’m found. On…
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The Hard Heart
Fixed and impervious, Mocking, contemptuous, Hard, impenetrable, Hostile, intractable. Ever colder, chilling, Proud, closed off, unwilling, Stubborn, recalcitrant, Stiff-necked, intransigent.
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