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Earth, or, When You Take Me From This Good Rich Soil (Free verse) by david
When You take me from this good rich soil
to crown me in Your Heavenly corridors, and
rattle my bone-house until the soul is dislodged;
no heart of mine will scurry from Your call
to abandon this corporeal self in the ground,
where my bones once ached and my long legs willowed.
Nothing in this earth could please me like Your love
does, nor match the bonfire that the Holy Spirit
sparks from dead-coal through my body's cabin.
When, in the deep cathedral of my ribs,
love rings in tones of Spirit-guided prayer, I do not require
proof of Your presence.
Though You take me from this good rich soil
where I grow like a spore in the wily heat,
rattle my bone-house until the soul is dislodged;
my banquet follies are rowdy guests to keep,
and will not retire meekly with the host.
Though You take me from this good rich soil,
and my heart tumbles like the mechanisms
of a lock to leave life's tepid sweat
for Your amazing peace, I'll be waving at Earth
with each cell's tiny ache, as this
rattled bone-house dislodges this soul.
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Arithmetic Mean: 5.4
Weighted score: 5.0476813
Overall Rank: 6870
Posted: November 21, 2003 1:31 AM PST; Last modified: June 11, 2004 10:46 AM PDT
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