2017 Eclipse

.. faith without works is dead ..

Praxis

Oh, let me not just overreach 
And force what You would have me learn
Unduly, early, what You teach
Despite my pensive yearn

Upon Your precious Word I fall
So eagerly, and wanting more
And yet, so calmly, comes Your call
To love as those of yore

So guide me, Lord, and show me how
To live a life of love as You
I’ll leave this ‘learning’ here and now
If You can draw me through

-jwm

About a Dream I Had

Monarch

These lift me through the airy height

These wings acquired through a night

Into a foreign world above

Of light and warmth and truth and love

What seems a dream are days gone by

When I knew nothing of the sky

Just toil on an earthly bed

And thoughts of milkweed in my head

But then I there within a husk

That dangled from an Aspen tusk

Began to form a different bent

That I knew not was Heaven meant

And now I’m lifted through this air

And though attaining beauty fair

The only thing that moves me now

Is that I share this flight somehow

 -jwm

Of the Poem

I think it was in 2008, but I was asleep one afternoon when in my dream these words- in both rhyme and meter- came to me: "But then I there within a husk / That dangled from an Aspen tusk". I woke up, I wrote them down, and for the next several weeks tried to give context to them in this poem above.

I chose the simple rhyme scheme of aabb based on the scheme given me in the dream, and adhered to iambic tetrameter as the guiding meter for the same reason.

The works of Emanuel Swedenborg heavily influenced the content and message of the poem, as did the idea of redemption.

I hope you guys enjoyed it.