Confluence: Maundy Thursday 2023
Confluence of Word and flesh,
in Palestine;
Confluence of Spirit and our spirits,
in our bodies;
Confluence of Body and Blood,
in bread and wine.
Crossed: Good Friday 2023
Delight of the Father,
darkened.
Begotten, unmade;
Glory, gorified;
Chosen, forsaken;
Filler, emptied; Immensity, squeezed; Gatherer, isolated;
Teacher, distraught; Walker, lamed; Welcomer, woe-begone;
Renovator, degenerated; Healer, pained; Joiner, dislocated;
Devoted, devastated;
Protector, bludgeoned;
Bridger, downed;
Blesser, cursed;
Humility, humiliated;
Founder, lost;
Heaven, in hell;
Joy of the Earth,
buried.
Raid: Easter Sunday 2023
Raid.
Death is
de-gated, unfenced,
dispossessed, deposed,
by the Spirit.
Dead Son is
declutched, unclasped,
snatched out, scooped up,
by the Father.
Repatriation.
Graham Kings
These poems first appeared on Covenant
The Rt Revd Dr Graham Kings is Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Ely and Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.