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Kairos — from “The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time”

wheat photo
Photo by Kiwien

The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time
By Hannah Eagleson

IV. Kairos

The wheat is full, pushing through the husks, ripe.
It overflows, lacking only
Those who yearn to harvest,
To gather and to give.

The fig tree must grow
Or wither.
In season or out,
Fruit is needed
For the hungry.

The king invites
The weary travellers,
The vagabonds and panhandlers
To join the wedding feast.

The time is always now.

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Note: Hannah Eagleson contributes to both the Emerging Scholars Network’s (ESN) Blog and The Well. The earlier pieces in her four part series The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time are Sparrows, Lilies, Kingdom. May you, as a fellow traveller, find rest and encouragement in The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time. To God be the glory! ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN, editor of ESN’s blog and Facebook Wall.

PS. If you have poems, essays, and/or reflections to share with Emerging Scholars, please email me.

Photo by Kiwien

Kingdom — from “The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time”

The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time
By Hannah Eagleson

III. Kingdom

This riot of lilies and sparrows,
Of pearls and trees and
Fields and fishermen,
This topsy turvy jumble
Where mountains skip with joy
And children lead with a
Handspring
This, the Kingdom

Uproots us from our desks,
Blows in and scatters
Our accounting,
And sets us dancing.

Photo by Denis Messié
Photo by Denis Messié

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Note: Hannah Eagleson contributes to both the Emerging Scholars Network’s (ESN) Blog and The Well. The earlier pieces in her four part series The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time are Sparrows and Lilies. May you, as a fellow traveller, find rest and encouragement in The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time. To God be the glory! ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN, editor of ESN’s blog and Facebook Wall.

PS. If you have poems, essays, and/or reflections to share with Emerging Scholars, please email me.

Lilies — from “The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time”

The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time
By Hannah Eagleson

II. Lilies

Pulling into the driveway,
Late (of course) –
Gathering my backpack, change, glasses, groceries,
Hoarding scraps of time,
Clutching each moment
Like a miser
And hoping for enough –

I see (not there the day before)
A daylily, sprinkled with warm brown,
Sprawled in vast orange leisure
Against the green of my hedge.

daylily brown orange photo
Photo by der LichtKlicker

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Hannah Eagleson, a contributor to both the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) Blog and The Well, began her four series The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time with Sparrows. May you find the whole series a blessing throughout the day. To God be the glory! ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN, editor of ESN’s blog and Facebook Wall.

PS. If you have poems, essays, and/or reflections to share with Emerging Scholars, please email me.

Update: 10/22/2013, 7:23 AM.

Sparrows — from “The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time”

Today, Hannah Eagleson, a contributor to both the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) Blog and The Well, begins her four part series The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time. Thank-you Hannah! ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN, editor of ESN’s blog and Facebook Wall.

PS. If you have poems, essays, and/or reflections to share with Emerging Scholars, please email me.

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sparrows photo

The Kingdom: Poems for Ordinary Time
By Hannah Eagleson

I. Sparrows

Darting, shy,
They seem doubtful –
Have I really put this thistle out for them,
Or am I hoping for something
More exotic –
A goldfinch or an oriole,

Perhaps?
Maybe I would prefer the louder bluejay,
With its panoply
Of colors,
Its assertive tone.

Or the striking cardinal,
That splash of red
Which everyone admires.

They do not realize that I see
The delicate architecture of their wings,
Wrought with patterns
More lavish than they know.