Snow's Writing for 2019, 2020, & Beyond

Reading the Baha'i Sacred Scriptures

Sentence by sentence I read the Sacred Scriptures. I silently enunciate each word in my mind, and feel the connotations of divine love pass from axon to dendrite form dendrite to axon. Tranquility embraces past, present, and future. Divine love encompasses all humanity, all religions.

the reed pen's shrill voice
inscribed the Holy Spirit's words
dawn of a new day

Poet's Note: ▶︎

Form: Haibun  
A Japanese form combining prose and haiku.

         1. The prose describes in depth a scene or moment in a detached manner. It should be brief, concise and poetic. It is written in present tense and does not give away the moment of insight that should be revealed in the haiku that follows.
         2. The haiku should not be in direct relationship with the prose but bring a different slant to the images to heighten the emotion drawn from the defining moment of the prose revealed in the haiku. It should not repeat words or phrases from the prose.

Written for "Invalid Item"  Round 63.

Both The Bab and Baha'u'llah used a reed pen to write the Divine Revelation.