We can waste a lot of time seeking God, becoming bitter when He doesn’t reveal Himself – or we can just…
Each week The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “Wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:
Wordle’s words
A Contrarian Spirit of Levity
(why waste a lot of precious time)
There is no God that I can name
nor name of God to voice;
no moon that lights a crooked path
that leads me to rejoice.
No pebbles by the way that may
massage my swollen feet,
nor show my soles to ardent waters
offering retreat.
Dark phantoms dwell inside of me,
like smoke throughout a wood,
now acrid ashes, embers of,
what once I thought as good.
And now I pray like hide-and-seek.
I count to three: a bridged technique!
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
This made me smile the whole way through it. Nicely done!
I like smiles…. the whole way through.
Thanks, Randy
Lovely rhythm, Randy, but expressing lonely thoughts.
janet
Never played hide and seek? with God?
Or, maybe better yet… God plays hide and seek with us?
Just count to three, on the abridged version, and see if you can fast find Him.
Maybe not as lonely as you you think…
Good morning (or is it still night there…) Randy
Still night. 🙂 Hope you had a good weekend.
the best… hope you did too!
Also good. One of my s-i-l’s is here to help us celebrate Easter.
I love this whole thing, but this part is absolutely brilliant:
“Dark phantoms dwell inside of me,
like smoke throughout a wood,
now acrid ashes, embers of,
what once I thought as good.”
It captures so perfectly how our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can morph…..the fluidity of change depicted so poetically.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the poem.
Change is inevitable, I believe somebody wrote…
prayer is optional as is adaptation.
Randy
That’s beautiful!
I rather imagine that God enjoys a good game or two, hide-and-seek is probably his favourite. >
I asked Him once where He was. He told me I should seek Him. I just figured it was a game of hide and seek. Except I have little interest in counting to 10 since He’s a fast hider.
Thanks for commenting. Randy
What a wonderful song like quality this has – love the idea of playing hide and seek prayers..