AN UNBELIEVING AGE

You may think him,

a poet,lunatic or lover

under his music sheets

or a novel's critical cover

but he is like any Adam

cursing the ground

amid the birds

tilling his garden

hearing a pardoning sound

of many words

in a land of Nod

amid that Cain

who murdered godly Abel

in a dishonorable reign

when empires buried us

then David became king

and Moses in the wilderness
the enemies buried at the Red Sea

and then liberation, exile

as Josephus speaks of Cyrus

then of Messiah Jesus in Zion

his life and Crucifixion

and so in the lexicon

and each portion

we remember Ezra,the scribe

Nehemiah, 

Jeremiah of the tribe,

under the Juniper trees
all the stories in pastorals 

then the thunder of the Macabees

the glories and wonder miracles.