Backward Mutters

The Seven Trumpets: Revelation 10:3-11-19 Part Three: The Last The leonine roar sounds seven secret thunders Before the world’s city shines the angel of Day His thundering plan is shrouded in wonders But it comes now, nothing waiting, no delay He sends to the world his witnesses to unlock The…

The Seven Trumpets 2: Revelation 9:1-10:3 Next blows the trumpet to open the dungeon From its bottomless depths it calls forth The consumers of people, Apollyon’s legion: Locusts stinging with living death. Now comes the Sixth, his trumpet to blow To release the bound chaos at earth’s corners: A mounted…

Continuing in Revelation with the first of three sonnets on the Seven Trumpets. First in a three part series The Seven Trumpets: Revelation 8:2-13 Hurled earthward, the censer of prayer Mingled with embers from the altar above Traces its catapult arc into the World’s air Over its ramparts with a…

Continuing my commentary on Revelation, here is a poem based on the Seven Seals from Revelation 6-8 based on Revelation 6:1-8:1 Believing they took the victor’s laurel crown, Those bent on conquering will not stop till conquered And community bleeds its life upon the open ground, As the sword-bearer thrusts…

While preaching through Revelation, I have written a series of poems on passages which have struck me. Here is the first from Revelation chapters 4 and 5. It begins and ends with an opening– The closed door to the scroll’s secret inside. A shackled sinner stumbles forward groping Beyond all…