The Supreme Test (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and one fox and look here, they write, you are a dupe for ...
515 Madison Avenuedoor to heaven? portalstopped realities and eternal licentiousnessor at least the jungle of impossible eagernessyour marble is bronze ...
I am the ageless Bird of Evil Flame.Eve knew my name.With bitter tears she tried to quench the sparkOf envy ...
Full many lift and singTheir sweet imagining;Not yet the Lyric Seer,The one bard of the throng,With highest gift of song,Breaks ...
There runs a road by Merrow Down-- A grassy track to-day it is-- An hour out Guildford town, Above the ...
When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War, We used to take it ...
With the prostitutes, the tax collectors with the unclean, the lepers Christ is the voice of inclusion showing us his ...
Christ loved us anyway judging us not filled with compassion sharing his life with us Eating with the outcasts the ...
If we hate our brothers, our sisters just for who they are can we love our God with all our ...
Marking another different from us as if that made them unworthy unable to approach the cross All of us human ...
Maybe patience perseverance in adversity staying on the path stepping stones laid to make the way easier over the space ...
So easily thrown away so easily tossed out if we bar their way if we cast our neighbors out Ours ...
Basic human rights to love and to live offered to each only by the Father to give We cannot take ...
Our worlds in denial safe from reality we do not want to believe the evil stalking our loved ones the ...
The most vile abuse targeted because of their different attacked for who they are just because of their color, their ...
Are we complicit when we stand in silence pernicious discrimination devaluing our neighbor Excluding them from inclusion blind to the ...
The stigma of difference setting us apart when we are all one fallen before the Lord each of us sinners ...
We think it is so distant the judging of others racism, bias, phobias against one another keeping us separated away ...
They will soon be down To one, but he still will be For a little while still will be stopping ...
Then call me traitor if you must, Shout reason and default! Say I betray a sacred trust Aching beyond this ...
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