What Stirs the Mind

English quintain I’m leaving, going far away and when I’m through, I will return. But meanwhile, mind my vineyard, stay. I’m staking out a risk to earn; It is for you, to try and learn. I lease to you my private land which I have hedged. I’ve built a tow’r so you may guard my kingdom grand. Till I come back, you are in pow'r. I will come back, an unknown hour. Time lingers on, I send trustees to test the fruit; the vintage won. The tenants stone and wound all three; more were dispatched , more harm was done. They’ll show respect, I’ll send my son. Imprudent keepers of my lease imagined I was surely dead. They saw a chance the land to seize. My heir’s demise they thought ahead would free the land to tenants’ stead. This is a story Jesus told a parabolic sermon heard. The tenants’ logic had no hold; God’s kingdom soon would be transferred from Jew to Gentile. Thoughts are stirred. written by Reason A. Poteet first posted at Poetry Soup – 3 Feb 2015 Iambic tetrameter – an English quintain for Giorgio’s contest: Structured forms-Iambic verse - Recite and analyze a fictional event inspired by a biblical parable, Mark 12:1-12