So I’m having fun posting these. It’s funny though because as I read through my poems, I want to post a bunch of them. Not because I know if they’re “good” or not — who decides that? what criteria? many of my poems have me thinking they’re terrible and pretty decent within a two-hour (or two-minute!) period — but because I just like them. And when you like stuff, you want to share it with people. So here we go–another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Before I go on, I will say that if you want to be able to make comments, you have to click on the actual post and not just read it from the main page … maybe y’all knew that, but I didn’t and had to ask the guy who set this all up for me haha.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n OK, so this one I like because it’s a Bible one. I memorized Psalm 27 with a student a few years ago and it (like pretty much almost all the longer-than-a-few-verses stuff I’ve memorized) ended up being pretty meaningful and powerful in my life. And then at one point I decided to write a poem inspired by it. Poem inspired by a poem. Here you go…<\/p>\n\n\n\n FINDING JOHN DAVIDSON<\/strong> Oh Yahweh, Yahweh So I’m having fun posting these. It’s funny though because as I read through my poems, I want to post a bunch of them. Not because I know if they’re “good” or not — who decides that? what criteria? many of my poems have me thinking they’re terrible and pretty decent within a two-hour (or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Not hiding from
But hidden with
No downcast eyes
But beauty gaze
No fearing heart
But bold in hope
No panicked screams
But shouts of praise
No orphaned pit
But embraced aid
No rabbit zag
But firm tracks laid
No leering foe
But face of flow
The roaring tumult
Far below<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rock that\u2019s true
Such is the way
That\u2019s found in you
The light the space
The goodness now
Oh help me wait
And trust somehow
Hear my voice
And stoop to meet
Me in my chaos
<\/em>With mercy sweet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"