Book Four: Out Of His Treasuries Poem by Wayne Sowell

Refer to Psalms 135.

Verse 7c."He brings the Wind Out of His Treasuries."

Bible.New International Version

Poem One.

1 Shiloh.

2 First the peace beyond understanding

3 The wind I cannot control

4 Mashed fingers announced his coming

5 Through the everlasting doors

6 Fatherhood

7 Came to a bent and lonely child.Hands full.

Poem Two.

1 Remembered walks feet cannot forget

2 The promise of the last mile not walked together

3 The heartbreak of one going ahead, alone

4 The going gave preparation to the treasuries

5 Gold will buy it in that day

6 Walk on sand till Shiloh comes.

7 Count the grains if tarrying takes.

Poem Three.

1 Now and then

2 Now but past

3 Now and future

4 When I was with him he gave me

5 That wind in his treasuries then

6 We follow our fathers

7 Seeing and doing.

Poem Four.

1 Always the breath of a father, the branch of a vine

2 From beginning to end, the wind in his arms

3 Breath of life until the last taking

4 Gives you all of him.

5 Signal that it is passed and given away

6 Making new itself

7 In you.

Poem Five.

1 I try to see it

2 I try to listen

3 But it is not that way with eyes and ears

4 Flesh has gone to glory

5 I am what he was

6 Can not see until I am with him again

7 Can not hear until I am like him.

Poem Six.

1 Fingers tried to tell him

2 What hearts could not say

3 Sometimes I think he could not read

4 Fingerprints upon poverty

5 He was a father

6 And human

7 Humans die away; fathers live on.

Poem Seven.

1 Whatever the treasury in wind holds

2 Surely know some bankruptcy is apparent

3 For the fullness of it

4 Some love has paid a full price

5 Some investment took everything

6 But he held faith in the stream, the wood, the house and the
treasury

7 That the increase of love would have no end.