Book One: Streams In The South Poem by Wayne Sowell

Refer to Psalms 126.

Verse 4.Bring back our captivity, O Lord,
As the Streams In the South.

Bible.New International Version.

Poem One.

1 I found the words

2 Buried in the heart

3 I used the edge of wisdom to chisel it out

4 And with some knowledge

5 Laid by

6 I am endeavoring

7 To wade into this stream.

Poem Two.

1 What is deeper than the heart?

2 To know evil?

3 Feet into such a shallow stream

4 Seeing the reflection

5 Of Heaven

6 And judging how great

7 The winged ones fell.

Poem Three.

1 What novel does the heart contain?

2 Mystery, mystery

3 It takes more than a night to read it

4 Then a thousand days to contemplate.

5 Letters are piled into words

6 Words are jumbled into lines

7 Lines are fenced into precepts.Doctrine.

Poem Four.

1 It is the words

2 Giving flesh to the heart

3 Or should I say

4 One Word standing

5 To give heart to the flesh

6 Yes I should say this Word.

7 Four letters frame it.Lines in Eternity.Precepts beyond.

Poem Five.

1 Seven pillars front the house

2 By the stream

3 Oh, yes

4 There by the waters of the wadi

5 The word in heart had a home

6 Hands were not used to build it

7 No fingerprints sustain.

Poem Six.

1 A forest there

2 In future

3 Fires would burn

4 To offer truth

5 Smoke of what it knew

6 Obedience could

7Have saved each piece of wood.

Poem Seven.

1 And from the heart place

2 My soul was made to wander

3 And stream wet feet

4 Journey to the fields of the wood.

5 Not only fires kept the wood

6 But a greater hunger

7 Sought to raise the Word upon wood most high.