by Jody Seymour | Dec 13, 2019 | Houses of Worship, Voices of Davidson
Search for: Will They Listen? 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...
by Jody Seymour | Nov 13, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Houses of Worship, Voices of Davidson
Search for: VOICES OF DAVIDSON Harmony or Who Can Play the Loudest? (Is there any hope for our lack of civil discourse?) In the book Quietly Courageous, Gil Rendle lifts up the changing concept of “harmony.” In generations past in a time of cultural consensus, the...
by Jody Seymour | Oct 19, 2019 | Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP A Poem for All That Divides Us as a People 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...
by Jody Seymour | Oct 8, 2019 | Bottom Left Black Box, Houses of Worship
Search for: HOUSES OF WORSHIP An Oasis of Forgiveness in a Desert of Contempt 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...
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(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...
