Burning Bush
A curious choice
for the all-powerful Lord of Hosts
to speak through
a burning bush;
when he could have gone for
rolling thunder, say,
or the blanketing silence of snowfall.
Maybe it was a grudge he had been harbouring
since Creation
against a peculiarly ugly shrub,
designed just before tea-time on the sixth day
when his concentration wavered.
The Bible is not specific on horticultural particulars.
The flames lick up, hot on the face,
and the bush is not consumed.
Perhaps he liked to hear his voice
made gravelly by smoke
like a jazz singer?
Or was he trying to warn Moses
that men who say
they've heard the voice of God
are playing with fire?
Poetry by Karun
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Written on 2010-05-14 at 06:39
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