pleiades
Adeste Fideles!
Angels visit the earth
Announcing joyful news -
Arrival of the Child.
As shepherds leave their flock
Anticipation mounts.
Awestruck, the faithful come.
written December 25, 2016
for Andrea's 2nd Pleiades contest
(Adeste Fideles) reads as five on
the syllable counter here but only four on
how many syllables.com
However, we sing it with six syllable in Latin.
Categories:
adeste, christmas, joy, peace,
Form: Verse
Adeste Fidelis
confused innocents of limbo,
the unbaptized babies,
ignorant of nonbelief,
denied the Divine countenance.
What of them today? Still floating?
Explain that. Do I believe in the leader of
dark angels all muscle and teeth?
Father O’Neil and Sister Michael
say it’s a matter of faith,
a leap across clear minded
waters to the shore of
loaves of fishes, water to wine,
life reawakened from death.
Heaven awaits us all,
since before I was born.
since the last among us breathes;
it is peace; it flows energy.
My faith, such as it is, lies in
the virtue of life, procreation,
human kindness, sky and water.
I know of the sun and the moon.
Not of God and Satan.
Kathryn Collins
(revised) ©December 30, 2007
Categories:
adeste, discrimination,
Form: Free verse