Gospel Poems

Part IV, three poems

Welcome to Every Other Sunday. Today’s post is Gospel Poems, part four. These three poems complete the twelve poem suite.

Part I of the Gospel Poems is here, Part II is here, and Part III is here.

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Sorrow (Deus Absconditus)

I looked to the elders
the teachers and preachers

I looked to the scriptures
on paper thin as tissue

I looked to my father
absent as god, god,

with god, they said
taken by plan, taken.

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Illustration by Stephen S. Brown. Gouache on watercolor paper.

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Quidditas

Here is how
I hope it goes

for me. For you?

I see its kind
familiar face,

and know it.
I say, Oh–

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Afterlife

Hope’s feeble flicker.
Heart’s ceaseless bicker.

Natter, natter, natter.
I matter.

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