Nativity
The Church
Has left
The building
Birthed from
Demolition
To Immanuel
No building
To contain
The Almighty
Omnipresent
To dwell
The building
Has left
The Church
Free from
Enclosure
God is with us
Spirit
In the hearts
Of humanity
Like Dove
Will perch
© August 1, 2013, Robbie Pruitt
This poem, Nativity, was submitted to Open Link Night at dVerse Poets on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. To
see more poems submitted to Open Link Night, please visit the
site here. The links will be live at 2 p.m. Central time on Tuesday. Check
“Mr.
Linky” for this
week’s poems.
My friend Michael Bixler is an excellent photographer, artist, writer, videographer and “adventurer” who took the
photo above, Church of the Nativity Demo at 11th & Mt Vernon. Like much of
his work, it captivated me and inspired the poem Nativity. Bixler has provoked
me to poetry with Motel
and Ghost Lake back in
October of 2012, with his photo Late
Autumn Epiphany in November, and with Homage back in
December of 2012. I am a huge fan of his work and am grateful he allows me to
use his art as my muse. To see more of Michael Bixler’s work, click here, here,
or here.
