KINGDOMTIDE: Creation Healed

KINGDOMTIDE: Creation Healed
(a spoken word poem and would be benediction)

It’s that sound
In the ground
When the seed becomes found
And the world gather’s round
Can you hear it?

It’s the ease
In the breeze
From the healing in the leaves
Clapping hands of the trees
Do you see it?

It’s the feast
In the yeast
When the great feed the least
War and strife cease for peace
Will you taste it?

It’s the care
In the air
When the rich start to share
Fragrant skies perfuming prayer
Won’t you smell it?

It’s the sand
In his hand
As he writes on the land
Cross revealing contraband
Will you touch it?

Go now and be
Broken healers of creation
Joyful bearers of salvation
Crucified saints of a cruciform nation
Are you Ready?

John David Walt, Jr.
October 20, 2005

Comments

[jo h.]

very rhythmic and potent. and as josh said, it "really cuts..." as good poetry sometimes should.

[Josh]

I like this JD...I read it with a little m&m action...don't worry, nobody was around to hear me. I love: "It’s the sand In his hand As he writes on the land Cross revealing contraband Will you touch it?" Man, this really cuts.