All Our Knowing

Posted on October 1, 2011 by elizabeth

How does killing
avenge a killing
or hitting
rectify the blow?
How does willing
redeem free willing
is this the only way we know?

Now the gloaming dusk
is falling
briny tide is rolling out.
Can you hear the darkness calling,
can you taste its loaming doubt?

Trust our word, The Word, the Word
this they say to us–absurd.
Can’t they see our hearts now glowing,
emptied all of all our knowing?

By: Elizabeth Esther
October 1, 2011

This post is part of the 31 Days linkup hosted by thenester.com

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  • KatR

    “Trust our word, The Word, the Word”…….  I love this.

  • Anonymous

    I like the way it sounds when read aloud, too. My favorite kinds of poems are the ones you love reading aloud because of how they SOUND and the way they roll off your tongue. Thank you for reading, my beloved Kat!

  • Tx Girl

    beautifully said, transparent, and it resonates with my heart. thank you for sharing. 

  • http://www.javamama.wordpress.com Kelli

    Praise God. Looking forward to your radical honesty.

  • http://www.emilinegreyhound.blogspot.com emily

    Elizabeth, this is a beautiful pome.  Thank you for sharing it with us.  xoxo emily

  • http://www.jessicamccracken.com Jessica

    great poem.  love how it doesn’t really end/hit you till the end – you know you’re going somewhere but you can’t see it till that last line and it’s way better than you suspected.

    also thanks for doing this – i’ve linked up- way cool.

  • http://profiles.google.com/heathertruett Heather Truett

    Agreed. I love Goblin Market for that reason. I read it aloud to myself sometimes.