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A Genesis Mimesis Part 1

the Poet maker said and it was so let there be prose forward turns the page ancient song from light to breath it was good to divide light from dark to recite the day the night the verse of the day expands the page visible words separate the waterways waters above held in Heaven's store evening and morning end of page two Below turning droplets collect for the seas it was so land appeared a birth of earth let it bring forth the grass the herb full with seed of life after His kind the tree progeny with life within it was good also ends page three Sowing the lights midst the heaven the sign of the times standard let it be dividing rule the greater for day lesser for night He made the stars also giving light seen upon earth agreeing evening morning still good fourth page Poet's words flow optimistically like water seas fill abundantly with the living word sky filled flocks of winged fruitfully multiply for God said let them be blessed evening and morning of the fifth page The kines after His kind the things that crept with the pen of the ready writer man in His image with this breath

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