Silence

Silence, photo by Sean MacEntee, from Flickr, Creative Common

This National Poetry Month I will be posting a sequence of poems, written last year and this year, for others in a series called Giving Poetry. In this series, people request a poem using a title, specific words, concepts, or ideas. After writing the poem, I send it to them, posting it on Facebook and on my blog. This is Giving Poetry.

Poem on vibrant and personal worship

Silence: The Words of Worship: for Jim

When my words fail,
I sit in silence
as you sing over me.

© February 5, 2015, Robbie Pruitt


“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing." –Zephaniah 3:17, NIV

Joy

Creek waking, photo by SteveD91, from Flickr, Creative Commons

This National Poetry Month I will be posting a sequence of poems, written last year and this year, for others in a series called Giving Poetry. In this series, people request a poem using a title, specific words, concepts, or ideas. After writing the poem, I send it to them, posting it on Facebook and on my blog. This is Giving Poetry.

Joy, river, living, treasure, time, sweet, wisdom.

Joy: for Paige

The River flowed Life,
a living treasure,
gushing through time,
whispering sweet wisdom,
flooding joy—sublime.

© February 5, 2015, Robbie Pruitt

Shroud

Shroud

The river runs red

Scarlet like a cord

Through a curtain

A garment of our Lord

Crimson and Purple

And Gold and dread

From thorn and head

Blood poured out—Royalty

In color and in crown

Until split in two—dead

And fallen to the ground


© January 30, 2015, Robbie Pruitt

Cross in Crown of Thorns, photo by Doug1021, from Flickr, Creative Commons

Salt Creek

Photo by Bill Roth, courtesy of the photographer

Salt Creek

Twisted barbed wire

Like a crown of thorns

Calls back to a day forlorn

The weathered winter

And moss on the tree

Echo back from eternity

The roots spread

Into the mirrored glass

Of river—flowing past

Salt Creek flows ancient

As the ocean—Layered history

Rust, roots and rock—antiquity

© February 20, 2014, Robbie Pruitt

Poem inspired by photos and music by Jack Baumgartner: http://theschoolofthetransferofenergy.com/2014/02/20/salt-creek/