Notes About The Poem

This poem is written in three parts: Couplets, a limerick and Hiakus w/Epilogue

Matthew 13:1–23 Mark 4:1–20 Luke 8:4–15

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Luke’s Take: Couplets

Amidst the gathered throng all who contemplate
A farmer wandered forth to sow with agrarian gait
Some seeds were trampled, snatched by birds in flight
Others met the rocky ground and withered from the light
Among the thorns, hope struggled, choked by worldly care
While on good soil, faith blossomed, life fertile and rare
Each heart receives The Word, its journey has begun
By holding fast and persevering it, a harvest is won

Mark’s Take: A Limerick

A man scattered seed as He fanned’em
Always knowing whose growth’s in tandem
The stalk, then the head
And the grain is ripe and spread
The harvests appear just as He’s planned’em

Matthew’s Take: Haikus

Seeds fall on the path
Birds swoop down without a root
Message snatched away

Rocky ground, quick joy
Sun scorches shallow roots fast
Withers in trouble

Among the sharp thorns
Worries choke the growing Word
Fruitless riches fade

Good soil receives seed
Understanding yields a crop
Abundance in heart

Wheat and weeds both grow
Harvest sorts what is sown here
Truth’s spread by our God

Epilogue:

A Tender Shoot springs
Wonderful Counselor He
Succors to His kin
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