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Robin Diamond

Awaiting the Chariot

Awaiting the Chariot

Awaiting the Chariot

Come garlands!

Ascend the canopies whose gabled slopes send awash tulips beds and Hydrangea

A new dew fell,  festooned in Light and gorgeous

the atriums and holy trellises bind ivy and Climbing Rose in an arcade of Grapevine

and Buttercup

paths winding through evergreen, tendrils culique turn skyward

awaiting the Divine chariot.

 

Meantime, the people readied themselves

among and about ivory bolsters calmly fastening and securing

each garland and platied wreath

billows windswept then battened with white flags and pennants

regalia hung gladly among the arches and porticos upright

for a delegation arriving to rejoice as He says, “Make difficult to easy”

Shape all to joy, from fall to resurrection

 

To the worlds, the sunlight slants but doesn’t yet speak its Light

regales with tales of woodland creatures and mirthful laughter,  blue Bellflowers

the devotees arrive, all

all handsome and bedecked and sparkling in this self-same  sun

The anointing

About the Author
Robin is a retired Language Arts high school teacher who taught in the Los Angeles Unified District for 25 years. After retiring in 2010, she hurriedly made aliyah in 2011.