by Jody Seymour | Dec 13, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Houses of Worship
Will They Listen to the Silence? (A Christmas Poem) Forbidden fruit filled withcautionin mygarden of plentybutthey did not listen Stone tablets imprinted withlaws of lifebreakingon my mountainof firebutthey did not listen Shouts from prophets beggingeven...
by Jody Seymour | Nov 13, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Houses of Worship, Voices of Davidson
Search for: VOICES OF DAVIDSON In the book Quietly Courageous, Gil Rendle lifts up the changing concept of “harmony.” In generations past in a time of cultural consensus, the word harmony meant “agreement.” We no longer live in a culture of consensus. Rendle states...
by Jody Seymour | Oct 19, 2019 | Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP Dry Bones (a poem based on Ezekiel’s visionEzekiel 37: 1-14) Again the valley waitsbefore usParched, dried up hopes-dreams strippedof life Words no longer speakfor the arid windof anger and mistrustfills the crevicesbetween us Dry...
by Jody Seymour | Oct 8, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP So, we watch with disbelief as the brother of Botham Jean asks the judge who is about to pronounce sentence on Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Botham’s brother, if he can walk down from the witness stand and hug Amber in order to show...
by Jody Seymour | Sep 8, 2019 | Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP Into the Space(a poem for those who grieve) Into the space wherelove dwellsthere comes a robberwho dares tosteal life He smiles as he leavesus in the wakeof a tide thatseems sofinal But there is one whohas traveled thevalley of griefand...
