Category: poetry
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Where Do You Go?
This sonnet is based on Jeremiah 27:1-15 in which the Lord, through Jeremiah, commands his people to submit themselves to the yoke of his servant, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. If the Lord can use the king of Babylon to accomplish his purpose for his people, what might happen if…
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It Never Entered My Mind
This sonnet is based on Jeremiah 19:4, 5 in which the Lord through Jeremiah says, 4 Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because…
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Nothing Will Be the Same
This poem is based on Jeremiah 19:1-13. If it is helpful, you may listen to me read the poem via the player below. The prophet takes the elders through the gate Where lie the ruins of rubble and trash, Where the stench of dung and smoldering ash Serves to speak,…
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What Do You See?
This week, I begin a new series on the book of Jeremiah. This first poem takes its inspiration from Jeremiah 1:1-19. I must acknowledge my debt to Eugene Peterson’s translation in The Message of this passage wherein he seeks to make the pun found in the Hebrew between the words…
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What Prince?
This poem finds its inspiration in Psalm 119:161-176 and is the last in a series on Psalm 119. One of psalmist’s antagonists throughout Psalm 119 are the “princes”. Rather than take “prince” as merely one who is a member of the king’s household, I have imagined them as those who,…
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