14. Confluence, Crossed, Raid: Three Poems in Holy Week and Easter 2023

by Graham Kings

Date added: 24/04/2023

Confluence 

Confluence of Word and flesh,
in Palestine;
Confluence of Spirit and our spirits,
in our bodies;
Confluence of Body and Blood,
in bread and wine.

Maundy Thursday 2023

 

Crossed

 

Delight of the Father,

darkened.

Begotten, unmade;

Glory, gorified;

Chosen, forsaken;

Filler, emptied; Immensity, squeezed; Gatherer, isolated;

Teacher, distraught; Walker, lamed; Welcomer, woe-begone;

Renovator, degenerated; Healer, pained; Joiner, dislocated;

Devoted, devastated; 

Protector, bludgeoned; 

Bridger, downed;

Blesser, cursed;

Humility, humiliated;

Founder, lost;

Heaven, in hell;

Joy of the Earth,

buried.

 

Good Friday 2023

Raid

 

Raid.

 

Death is

de-gated, unfenced,

dispossessed, deposed,

by the Spirit.

 

Dead Son is

declutched, unclasped,

snatched out, scooped up,

by the Father.

 

Repatriation.

 

Easter Day 2023

(c) Graham Kings published originally on Covenant 17 April 2023 here.

Sunday 16 April 2023, All Age Sermon at St Andrew's Chesterton, Cambridge Video here using the three poems.

 
Graham Kings

Graham Kings

 
 
Wood panel

Wood panel

Interweavings

A bronze