Poetry Week: Midday Two – Chaplain Mike

The Key, Jackson Pollock

Emmaus
By Michael Mercer

road taken
friend welcomed
hearts broken
grief spoken
word opened
then home

guest summoned
meal proffered
grace offered
bread broken
eyes opened
christ known

8 thoughts on “Poetry Week: Midday Two – Chaplain Mike

  1. “Did not our hearts burn within us?”

    I encounter the risen Christ every day.
    May he be with us all.

    Christ is risen

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  2. Maybe sung, if set to music and expanded. These two stanzas could serve as alternative refrains.

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  3. The language of the Bible itself, especially the New Testament, is minimalist in spirit, if not stylistically.

    It works.

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  4. Lovely! It has a meditative feel to it, the sort of thing that could be recited and contemplated.

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