How Still It Can Be
Unknowing, drops the cloud from Heaven
silver rimmed in highlights and bold,
bright flashes behind the hazy limb,
to the harvest chamber, on the feast.
Pray, inside, are found the 'little ones',
while whirlwinds blast their thoughts,
as herald, as banks of trumpets;
fire sent to blaze in mortal souls.
Rays cross the room, wove in Heaven,
burning on what, unknown, weave
in transcendent symbol those who followed
Him, beyond Ascension, and the grave.
So now, descended, the timbers shake,
deafening as a stampede shaking beyond
the first few who persevered on prayer
tilt back their heads, and burn brighter still.
[Mark Johnson, copyright 1997]
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