A Planting
We bury our hopes, our dreams
in the fertile loam
beside flowing streams
that we might grow
and become the ones
who are called blessed.
But for those who scatter
by the River Styx
only fruit of corruption,
a putrid fare,
will ripen and fall
from shoots of wanting.
When will there be
a harvest in abundance
of life and grace?
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like “shoots of wanting,” sounds almost like a psalm
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When indeed. Glad you are with us again this June.
Thank you! I probably won’t post a poem every day. I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow. I look forward to reading your poetry as well. God Bless!
Worthy first submission, sir.
Feels straight out of the Wisdom books.
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I think “flowing streams” sounds like a Psalm enhanced later in the poem with some Greek mythology
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