Portrait of the Damned

“God’s spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.” Galatians 5:22-23
Portrait of the Damned
The face is glum as always
Drawn lonely drooping lines
On sides of lips convey besottedness
To things unhappy such as pain.
Each day a blot of black on blue
And bluer still it goes,
“Hello to hatred unresolved.”
The perfect host
Hugging fears [...]

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“Prayer (I)”

“Prayer (I)”
by George Herbert (1593-1633)
Prayer, the church’s banquet; angels’ age,
God’s breath in man returning to his birth;
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage;
The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth;
Engine against th’ Almighty, sinner’s tower,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six days’ world transposing in an hour;
A kind of tune which all things hear [...]

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